The Lyrita label has been known in the mid-2010s for reissues of radio broadcasts from the 1960s and 1970s, featuring largely forgotten British music of the middle 20th century. This release of music by Francis Shaw is not part of that series; it offers a pair of piano concertos by Shaw, one written in 2013 and the other revised in that year. Yet, sonics aside, it might easily have been part of the reissue series, for this is retrospective music. Shaw has been best known as a composer of film music, but that idiom plays ...
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The Lyrita label has been known in the mid-2010s for reissues of radio broadcasts from the 1960s and 1970s, featuring largely forgotten British music of the middle 20th century. This release of music by Francis Shaw is not part of that series; it offers a pair of piano concertos by Shaw, one written in 2013 and the other revised in that year. Yet, sonics aside, it might easily have been part of the reissue series, for this is retrospective music. Shaw has been best known as a composer of film music, but that idiom plays hardly any role in the Piano Concerto No. 1, originally written in 1988. Instead, the concerto refers back to the Piano Concerto in G major of Ravel with its dreamy central movement designated as a blues and its jazzy accents elsewhere. The music is more dissonant than Ravel, and there are hints of Ravel's English followers and of a rhythmic tension that seems to be Shaw's own, but it's essentially music of a century ago. More interesting is the Piano Concerto No. 2, in which Shaw the...
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