Marketing materials bill this Sony release as containing "two concerti in celebration of Chopin's music" by Howard Shore, best known for the soundtrack to The Lord of the Rings films. Actually, only the opening Ruin & Memory concerto for piano and orchestra, played by Lang Lang, had that aim; the cello concerto Mythic Gardens, performed by cellist Sophie Shao, was inspired by Italian gardens, but is provided as a companion work to the piano concerto. Both works are successful, the cello concerto perhaps even a trifle more ...
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Marketing materials bill this Sony release as containing "two concerti in celebration of Chopin's music" by Howard Shore, best known for the soundtrack to The Lord of the Rings films. Actually, only the opening Ruin & Memory concerto for piano and orchestra, played by Lang Lang, had that aim; the cello concerto Mythic Gardens, performed by cellist Sophie Shao, was inspired by Italian gardens, but is provided as a companion work to the piano concerto. Both works are successful, the cello concerto perhaps even a trifle more so. Shore's tonal world is that of Chopin, but Chopin never wrote music like this. Chopin's piano concertos were early works, structurally (although not melodically) rudimentary. Shore's treatment of the orchestra is that of a film composer, and that collides in interesting ways with the concerto concept: the solo instruments rarely take the stage alone, but are backed by shifting groups of instruments that create quite subtle shades (and the performers are ably backed by...
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