Cat No:
CDA68043
Format Details:
Release Date: 01 July 2014
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571280431
Genres: Classical Orchestral
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Description
In sharp contradistinction to the rest of the composers in this series, all of whom look like walruses, Benjamin Godard looks quite a lot like Johnny Depp in his daguerreotype. We should be marketing this directly to teenage girls.
Howard Shelley directs the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra from the piano in this latest volume of The Romantic Piano Concerto series. As ever, they perform unknown music with consummate style and deep understanding, making the best possible case for the works. We have reached Volume 63 and the works of French composer Benjamin Godard, a figure who is almost totally forgotten today. He is described by Jeremy Nicholas in his booklet note as ‘a composer who combines the sentimental melodic appeal of Massenet with the fecundity and technical facility of Saint-Saens’.
Among Godard’s oeuvre, well over seventy opus numbers are devoted to works for solo piano, ranging from Les contes de Perrault, Op 6, to Valse No 15, Op 153. His Hommage a Chopin can be found on Hyperion CDA67803, performed by Jonathan Plowright. Much of the enormous amount of music he produced followed in the tradition of Mendelssohn and Schumann (his admiration for the latter inspired a string quartet arrangement of Kinderszenen in 1876). With the emergence of more innovative composers, Godard’s conservative idiom meant his reputation faded before his early death in Cannes on 10 January 1895. However, in the three works presented here his writing for the piano exceeds the technical range of his two idols, and is often reminiscent of the bravura demands found in the concertos of Liszt and Rubinstein. -
Tracklisting
- 1. <b>Piano Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 31 |</b> Andante Allegro vivace [9'48]
- 2. <b>Piano Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 31 |</b> Scherzo | Allegretto non troppo [4'38]
- 3. <b>Piano Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 31 |</b> Andante quasi adagio [8'29]
- 4. <b>Piano Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 31 |</b> Allegro ma non troppo (Vivace) [6'59]
- 5. <b>Piano Concerto No 2 in G major Op 148 |</b> Con moto Allegro Moderato [9'35]
- 6. <b>Piano Concerto No 2 in G major Op 148 |</b> Andante [7'17]
- 7. <b>Piano Concerto No 2 in G major Op 148 |</b> Scherzo | Allegretto [3'10]
- 8. <b>Andante maestoso Moderato</b> [8'33]
- 9. <b>Introduction and Allegro Op 49 |</b> Lento [5'20]
- 10. <b>Introduction and Allegro Op 49 |</b> Allegro [6'22]
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