Herbert Howells (1892-1983): Klavierkonzerte Nr.1 & 2

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+Penguinski für Orchester

  • Artist: Shelley, BBC SO, Hickox
  • Label: Chandos , DDD, 00
  • Order number: 3351905
  • Release date: 19.1.2001

Konzert für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 1 c-moll op. 4

  1. 1 1. Allegro moderato Start
  2. 2 2. Tranquillo, e quasi lento Start
  3. 3 3. Allegro moderato, e scherzando Start

Konzert für Klavier und Orchester Nr. 2 c-moll op. 39

  1. 4 1. Allegro (Hard and bright) Start
  2. 5 2. Poco lento, calmato - Allegro (Hard and bright) Start
  3. 6 3. Allegro assai - Giocoso - A Tempo Start

Penguinski

  1. 7 Allegro assai - Slower - Allegro assai (come prima) Start

Product Information

We are delighted to present Howard Shelley as the esteemed soloist in these colourful works by Howells.

Richard Hickox conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the premiere recordings of Howells's Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra and the orchestral work Penguinski.

Howells's First Piano Concerto was his first major work and until now has presented problems for performers as the final bars were missing. John Rutter completed the concerto for this recording using Howells's detailed programme notes from the first performance and was present at the recording sessions.

John Rutter said of Concerto No. 1:
?It is a major discovery and it is extraordinary that this fine and spellbindingly imaginative work has been hidden for so long. It deserves to stand alongside the major romantic concertos.?

Howells had proved to be a very important composer for Chandos

Press comments

S. Rütter in FonoForum 7 / 01: "Was in beiden Werken immer wieder sympathisch berührt, sind die große Natürlichkeit und Vitalität der musikalischen Sprache, ihre gelassene Übernahme romantischer Emphase. Das BBC Symphony Or- chestra lässt unter Leitung von Richard Hickox das feine Kolorit der Partituren funkeln, auch in der hinreißenden Ballett-Miniatur "Penguinski", die Igor Strawinsky ironisch Reverenz erweist."

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