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Koppel's Fifth Symphony took on symbolic significance during the post-war rebuilding of Copenhagen: the old Tivoli Concert Hall had been blown up in reprisals against the Danish resistance movement, and for the inauguration of the new, modern hall a composers' competition was held, which Herman D. Koppel won with his Fifth Symphony which was to become the most frequently played of Koppel's orchestral works. From the beginning, the Third Piano Concerto enjoyed a great success in the Danish concert halls. The music has flashes of Neoclassical and ‘mechanical' elements from Stravinsky and Prokofiev, Slavic melody as in Bartók and freethinking as in Carl Nielsen. Very few pianists after Koppel himself have dared to take on his Third Piano Concerto because of its daunting technical challenges. Now the Russian-trained but Danish-based Nina Kavtaradze has ventured into Koppel's brilliant pianistic universe.