Stanford Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 2
Stanford’s answer to the great Russian concerto
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Composer or Director: Charles Villiers Stanford
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: Claves
Magazine Review Date: 5/2011
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
Stereo
Catalogue Number: 501101
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 |
Charles Villiers Stanford, Composer
Charles Villiers Stanford, Composer Finghin Collins, Piano Kenneth Montgomery, Conductor RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra |
Concert Variations on 'Down upon the dead men' |
Charles Villiers Stanford, Composer
Charles Villiers Stanford, Composer Finghin Collins, Piano Kenneth Montgomery, Conductor RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra |
Author: Jeremy Nicholas
It was not heard at the BBC Proms until 2008, when Finghin Collins was the soloist. His is a vigorous and assertive reading, matched by the robust partnership of Kenneth Montgomery and his Irish players. Collins is forwardly placed in the vivid and vibrant sound picture – of necessity, for Stanford makes full use of the orchestra, especially the brass section. This is no rehearse-record performance but one that is breezily sure of itself. I shan’t, though, be dispensing with Malcolm Binns’s Lyrita recording, simply because of the vulnerability he brings to the first movement’s second subject. Call me an old softy but Binns, by some magical means, makes this one of the most moving passages of any Romantic concerto recording.
Collins’s “Down among the dead men” is, again, a superbly muscular, confident account, even more so than Margaret Fingerhut’s excellent 1989 Chandos disc, similarly paired with Stanford’s No 2 (Binns has two orchestral works for company). Warmly recommended.
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