Malcolm Williamson - The Complete Piano Concertos
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Label: Hyperion
Cat No: CDA680112
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 3rd March 2014
Contents
Works
Concerto for 2 Pianos and String OrchestraPiano Concerto no.1 in A major
Piano Concerto no.2 in F sharp minor
Piano Concerto no.3 in E flat major
Piano Concerto no.4 in D major
Sinfonia Concertante for 3 tumpets, piano and strings
Artists
Piers Lane (piano)Howard Shelley (piano)
Yoram Levy (trumpet)
Mark Bain (trumpet)
Martin Phillipson (trumpet)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Howard ShelleyWorks
Concerto for 2 Pianos and String OrchestraPiano Concerto no.1 in A major
Piano Concerto no.2 in F sharp minor
Piano Concerto no.3 in E flat major
Piano Concerto no.4 in D major
Sinfonia Concertante for 3 tumpets, piano and strings
Artists
Piers Lane (piano)Howard Shelley (piano)
Yoram Levy (trumpet)
Mark Bain (trumpet)
Martin Phillipson (trumpet)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Howard ShelleyAbout
A real rarity from Hyperion’s Anglo-Australian artistic collaboration: music by an Australian composer who was once at the heart of the English establishment.
Malcolm Williamson was one of many Australian creative artists who relocated to Britain in the mid-twentieth century. Within a decade of settling in London, he had established a reputation as one of the most gifted and prolific composers of his generation. His stature as a leading figure within the British music scene was publicly acknowledged in 1975 when he was appointed to the esteemed post of Master of the Queen’s Music in succession to Sir Arthur Bliss. But today he is almost forgotten and his music virtually never performed.
This double-album set of the complete Piano Concertos is therefore an important document as well as a compendium of deeply appealing music. Williamson wrote with a generosity of emotion and melodic flair rare in the mid-twentieth century, in a forward-looking idiom.
The third concerto is perhaps the masterpiece, a huge and complex work. The fourth was written in 1993/4 and appears here as its world premiere performance and recording.
Piers Lane, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Howard Shelley are the ideal performers of these unjustly neglected works.
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