...actually a reissue on 2 CDs from Pan Classics, but a very welcome one, containing a very fine performance of the Symphony in particular:
http://www.mdt.co.uk/albert-piano-concertos-symphony-ronald-zollmann-pan-classics-2cds.html (http://www.mdt.co.uk/albert-piano-concertos-symphony-ronald-zollmann-pan-classics-2cds.html)
How does the symphony compare with the Naxos 8.572805 from 2013?
Tom :)
In my view it's the best performance around. The conductor takes a straighter view of the score and I think that works best in a piece which can seem over-inflated.
sounds like I need to replace it. thanks Alan
Tom
I hope someone records the Piano Concerto in G minor (1874).
PAN CLASSIC issued music by D'Albert on 4 CDs, all between 1993 and 1997:
1) Overture "Improvisator" and 2 Piano Concertos
2) Cello Concerto and Symphony
3) Piano Sonata and two sets of piano pieces op. 5 and op. 16
4) 2 String Quartets
Good to see them reissued!
I agree with Alan on the Symphony :-)
Pianist Karl-Andreas Kolly is simply great.
QuoteI hope someone records the Piano Concerto in G minor (1874).
It would need a bit of work. The autograph MS in the Saxon State Library is described as "almost complete", whatever that means. I agree it would be interesting to hear it.
Written at the age of 10? I'd like to think it would be of interest...
Well he was supposed to be a precocious youngster. Look at the stuff Korngold turned out at the same age. However, I'm not holding my breath for a forgotten masterpiece!
Nor I. But you never know...
It just dawned on me that I have a Vox recording on LP of the piano works. I don't know where it is but it's likely in my deep cavern of a closet.
Tom :)