This budget set includes a performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 2 that won raves from British reviewers and a Gramophone Award in the late '80s, just a few years after pianist Peter Donohoe won the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Here it is united with Tchaikovsky's other major works for piano and orchestra, the Concerto No. 1, the ...
A mixed collection of pieces, performers, and recordings, this two-disc set of music by Alban Berg lacks cogency -- chronologically, it starts in the middle, jumps forward to the end, and then circles back for the beginning -- consistency -- the performances range from the magnificent Alban Berg Quartet to the mediocre Simon Rattle -- and ...
Originally recorded in 1986 and 1987 and issued as two separate albums, this 2003 compilation pairs two of Igor Stravinsky's most popular ballets, and offers some less familiar but fascinating works as filler. Sir Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra deliver exciting performances of The Firebird and Petrushka in their ...
The examples of William Alwyn's music on this recording are much closer to late Romantic music than more modern music, even though their composition dates range from 1930 to 1967. Each of the two piano concertos and the Derby Day Overture cover a wide range of feelings with dramatic contrasts. That, combined with the flashy piano writing of the ...
This is the third volume in Peter Donohoe's superlative British Piano Concertos series. The first volume featured the two concertos of Alan Rawsthorne, a name fairly well known in England and faintly familiar to American audiences. The second volume featured the two concertos plus the sonata of Arthur Bliss, a name much better known in England and ...
Arthur Bliss was one of the generation of English modernists who came of age in the shadow of Elgar and the Great War. In his time, Bliss was the last word in driving rhythms, gleaming colors, and dazzling virtuosity, but his time passed and these days Bliss enjoys a reputation south of Arnold and north of Brian in the Pleiades of English ...
This three-disc EMI set of Tchaikovsky's complete music for piano and orchestra as well as the Violin Concerto and Rococo Variations is somewhat of a hit-and-miss compilation. Let's start with the hit. The second disc of the three contains the second and third piano concertos, performed by Peter Donohoe and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. The ...
There's only one real problem with these brilliantly performed and sensitively interpreted recordings of Tippett's Piano Sonatas No. 1 through No. 3 by Peter Donohoe, to wit, where the heck is the Sonata No. 4? There have been many recordings of the Sonata No. 1 over the years from John Ogdon's to Murray Perahia's, several recordings of the Sonata ...
While these performances of Rachmaninov's works for two pianos are not exactly subtle and surely not restrained, they are nevertheless absolutely riveting. Separately, English pianist Peter Donohoe and Martin Roscoe are fabulous virtuosos; together, they are a non-stop music machine of incredible power and unbelievable strength. Try "Páques," the ...
Ignore for a moment that this recording is part of Naxos' British Piano Concertos series. Hamilton Harty is among the five or six names that come to mind (usually after some thought) when asked to name Irish classical composers. His most popular works -- An Irish Symphony, With the Wild Geese, In Ireland -- do refer to his homeland in some way. ...
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