In the twenty first century it appears that as a composer, Constant Lambert has finally arrived. Lambert's countrymen have finally accepted that his idiosyncratic and jazzy scores of the 1920s constitute something unique in the British musical firmament as opposed to the prevailing view that Lambert was a sort of second-string William Walton who only realized his potential as a conductor. Hyperion's Lambert: Romeo and Juliet, Piano Concerto, featuring the English Northern Philharmonia under David Lloyd-Jones, is remarkable ...
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In the twenty first century it appears that as a composer, Constant Lambert has finally arrived. Lambert's countrymen have finally accepted that his idiosyncratic and jazzy scores of the 1920s constitute something unique in the British musical firmament as opposed to the prevailing view that Lambert was a sort of second-string William Walton who only realized his potential as a conductor. Hyperion's Lambert: Romeo and Juliet, Piano Concerto, featuring the English Northern Philharmonia under David Lloyd-Jones, is remarkable not so much as it contains premiere recordings of Lambert -- it does not -- as it presents second, and even third recordings of these works. Although pianist David Owen Norris seems to have scooped Jonathan Plowright on getting the first recording of Lambert's 1924 Piano Concerto onto disc, Plowright was the first to perform the work in public after its 1988 realization by Edward Shipley and Giles Easterbrook and it is valuable to have Plowright's interpretation on disc at last. This...
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Add this copy of Lambert: Romeo & Juliet / Elegiac Blues / Piano to cart. $13.89, new condition, Sold by BMC1701 rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Norwalk, IA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Hyperion.
