Stephen Coombs; Martyn Brabbins: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Release Date: 01 August 1996
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571168777
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
The disc is the thirteenth volume in the famous Hyperion 'Romantic Piano Concerto' series; it also follows on from Stephen Coombs's four-volume set of Glazunov's music for solo piano, meaning that Coombs has now recorded all of Glazunov's music for piano soloist.
The two piano concertos date from relatively late in the composer's career and are lyrical works, betraying the characteristically lush orchestral textures familiar from Glazunov's symphonies and ballets.
Alexander Goedicke (Medtner's cousin!) wrote his Concertstuck earlier than Glazunov's two concertos despite being the younger man. The work was published in 1900 and won the composer the Rubinstein Prize for Composition, bringing him early fame hardly matched by any subsequent successes. The Concertstuck is rhapsodic, with much brilliant piano writing and a distinctly Russian flavour to its themes.
Tracklisting
Marc-Andre Hamelin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Litton
Gothic Voices / Christopher Page
Alina Ibragimova, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Vladimir Jurowski
Mahan Esfahani
The Binchois Consort / Andrew Kirkman
Mishka Rushdie Momen
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Takacs Quartet
BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Singers, Alice Farnham
Marc-Andre Hamelin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Litton
Alina Ibragimova, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Vladimir Jurowski
Howard Griffiths; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Rudolf Firkusny
Rafael Orozco
Roeland Hendrikx, Jan Michiels, Brussels Philharmonic, Il Novecento, Robert Groslot
Adam Kostecki, Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Hannover Chamber Orchestra, Carsten Petermann
