Geoffrey Tozer, Tamara Cislowski, Matthias Bamert - Alan Rawsthorne: Piano Concertos (2007)
EAC APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers + Digital Booklet | 62:47 | 579 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | Catalog: CHA 10339
EAC APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers + Digital Booklet | 62:47 | 579 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | Catalog: CHA 10339
This is a reissue of the 1993 Chandos recording which was welcomed by Michael Oliver, who heard Prokofiev in the background of the solo piano concertos. The first version of No 1 (1939) was for strings and percussion but three years later Rawsthorne rescored it for full orchestra and in that form the work became popular. The whirligig semiquavers in the fast movements create a scherzo atmosphere and the last movement is a tarantella. In between comes a grave chaconne full of Rawsthorne’s fingerprints.