 Music author Eric Blom adds, "It is true that even Taneyev did not know for certain whether Tchaikovsky, if he actually meant to turn out a three-movement concerto, would not have preferred to scrap the "Andante and Finale" altogether and to replace them by two entirely new movements; so if we decide that the finale at any rate is a poor piece of work, we must blame Taneyev for preserving it rather than Tchaikovsky for having conceived it.For we cannot even be sure how far the conception may have been carried out".Warrack concludes, "The kindest response is to remember that Tchaikovsky himself abandoned it.