The Hyperion label's massive series devoted to the Romantic piano
concerto (this is volume 62 and counting) has had a few entries of
dubious value. But the purpose of a comprehensive series is to uncover
some lost gems by sheer force of numbers, and that's just what happens
here. The pedal piano is an almost-forgotten relic of the 19th century,
but it was fairly popular in its own time, and even as august a work as
Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466, may have been
composed with one in mind. It's worth a revival, and Italian pianist
Roberto Prosseda had to cobble one together here: no original instrument
was readily at hand. As the name suggests, it is essentially a piano
with an organ keyboard. Charles Gounod, who is a composer too much known
for just a few big hits, wrote four works for the instrument, all in
the late 1880s, and they're delightful. There are two four-movement
concertos, one of them denoted a Suite concertante in A major. The
Concerto for pedal piano in E flat major is a bit more idiomatic to the
instrument, and its slow movement, with a nifty hunting motif in its
second-movement scherzo is most enjoyable. The two concerto slow
movements are fine examples of Gounod's melodic idiom. The two shorter
works at the end of the program are less distinctive melodically, but
they would have been showpieces for the instrumentalist for whom they
were written, and at the very least they fill in a gap in our knowledge
of French music. Prosseda gets able support from the series' instigator,
Howard Shelley, here conducting the Orchestra della Svizzera Italia. by James Manheim
Tracklist :
Suite Concertante In A Major (22:59)
Composed By – Charles Gounod
Concerto For Pedal Piano In E Flat Major (19:47)
Composed By – Charles Gounod
Fantaisie Sur L'Hymne National Russe 8:36
Composed By – Charles Gounod
Danse Roumaine 4:32
Composed By – Charles Gounod
Credits :
Conductor – Howard Shelley
Orchestra – Orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana
Piano – Roberto Prosseda
quarta-feira, 17 de janeiro de 2024
GOUNOD : The Complete Works for Pedal Piano & Orchestra (Roberto Prosseda · Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana · Howard Shelley) (2013) Serie The Romantic Piano Concerto – 62 | FLAC (image+.cue), lossless
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