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Recording details: January 1998
City Hall, Candleriggs, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Produced by Andrew Keener
Engineered by John Timperley
Release date: August 1998
Total duration: 61 minutes 39 seconds
Available for download on iTunes: Yes
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GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE
'Another hugely enjoyable release of Scottish music from Hyperion' (The Scotsman)
'A super disc' (Gramophone)
'What a bonanza this Hyperion offering is! If you fancy piano concertos you'll find plenty in these two neglected specimens to challenge and enchant you' (Fanfare, USA)
'A marvellous and magnificent disc' (Hi Fi News)
'A fascinating release. The whole enterprise could hardly wish for a more eloquent or dashingly persuasive exponent than Steven Osborne, who clearly believes in every note' (Piano International)
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Piano Concerto in A major, Op 15
Sir Donald Francis Tovey (1875-1940)
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Movement 1: Energico
[15:37]
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Scottish Concerto, Op 55
Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie (1847-1935)
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Movement 2: Molto lento
[9:20]
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Mackenzie's Scottish Concerto, premiered by no less a man than Paderewski in 1897, is a colourful and entertaining work which uses several Scottish themes in a fundamentally Lisztian design.
As befits the academic and scholarly Tovey, his concerto of 1903 is in a much more serious and Brahmsian vein, indeed the first movement in particular sounds uncannily like Brahms from beginning to end. The work is characterized by great rhythmic energy and superb, rich orchestration. Not just another piano concerto, but a major and unaccountably neglected symphonic work.
Please note the carefully chosen Mackenzie tartan featured as part of the cover design!
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