Written at three widely separated points in his career, the three piano concertos of Alan Rawsthorne present three different views of the English modernist composer. The First Concerto (originally written in 1939 for piano, strings, and percussion, it was revised and expanded for full orchestra in 1942) is a youthful three-movement work full of immense high spirits in its outer movements and characteristic gentle melancholy in its central movement. The Second Concerto from 1951 is a much larger-scaled and more mature work ...
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Written at three widely separated points in his career, the three piano concertos of Alan Rawsthorne present three different views of the English modernist composer. The First Concerto (originally written in 1939 for piano, strings, and percussion, it was revised and expanded for full orchestra in 1942) is a youthful three-movement work full of immense high spirits in its outer movements and characteristic gentle melancholy in its central movement. The Second Concerto from 1951 is a much larger-scaled and more mature work in four movements with the emphasis on brilliant virtuosity throughout. And the Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra from 1968, only three years before the composer's death, is a shorter and more concise three-movement late period work that mixes overt display with introverted intimacy. This 1992 Chandos disc featuring pianist Geoffrey Tozer with pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska in the double concerto accompanied by Matthias Bamert leading the London Philharmonic presents a convincing...
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