 This work is written in two movements and lasts approximately 30 minutes.Tchaikovsky had voiced his dislike for the sound of piano and orchestra while writing his Second Piano Concerto with his isolating the soloist from the orchestra as much as possible.Tchaikovsky scholar David Brown notes that the middle section of the "quasi Rondo" of the Fantasia, written for piano solo, "was the logical goal toward which this precedent had pointed".