Among modern and twentieth-century scholars, Cuthbert Girdlestone states that the concerto "is in all respects one of greatest; we would fain say: the greatest, were it not impossible to choose between four or five of them."
Entre os estudosos modernos e os do século XIX, Cuthbert Girdlestone sostén que o concerto «é en todos os aspectos un dos mellores ; diriamos con certeza: o maior, se non fose imposible elixir entre catro ou cinco deles».