The three works recorded here, all written in a 2 1/2-year span (1938-40), comprise Britten's entire output for solo piano and orchestra. By turns riotous, ruminative, mystery-shrouded and cheerfully ...
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Elizabeth Joy Roe, Piano Emil Tabakov, Conductor London Symphony Orchestra Benjamin Britten, Composer Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Samuel Barber, Composer London ...
An endangered species was spotted at St. Paul’s Ordway Concert Hall Friday evening. There, standing before the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, baton in hand, was a conductor. They don’t come around SPCO ...
Robert Beaser, “The Seven Deadly Sins,” “Chorale Variations” and Piano Concerto. Performed by the American Composers Orchestra, conductor Dennis Russell Davies, baritone Jan Opalach (in “Seven Deadly ...
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Edward Gardner, Conductor Howard Shelley, Piano Benjamin Britten, Composer BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Tasmin Little, Violin BBC ...
Edward Gardner starts Britten’s Piano Concerto with amazing ferocity and drive. Winds and horns make light work of their repeated quavers, and Howard Shelley relishes the fast tempo when he makes his ...
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