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Percy Sherwood / Georgy Catoire - Piano Concertos | Dutton - Epoch CDLX7287

Percy Sherwood / Georgy Catoire - Piano Concertos

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Label: Dutton - Epoch

Cat No: CDLX7287

Barcode: 0765387728724

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 19th March 2012

Contents

Artists

Hiroaki Takenouchi (piano)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Conductor

Martin Yates

Works

Catoire, Georgy

Piano Concerto in A flat major, op.21

Sherwood, Percy

Piano Concerto no.2 in E flat major

Artists

Hiroaki Takenouchi (piano)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Conductor

Martin Yates

About

Pianist Hiroaki Takenouchi (featured in the critically acclaimed television documentary The Prince and the Composer) has recorded his first programme for Dutton Epoch. He explores piano concertos by Georgy Catoire (1861-1926) and Percy Sherwood (1866-1939), two worthwhile but neglected contemporaries who came to musical maturity in the closing years of the nineteenth century.

The Russian Catoire – who came into the circle of Tchaikovsky, Arensky and Lyadov – wrote in that glorious musical time in Russia before the dissolution of the Revolution, and it is remarkable that his heart-warming, lyrical Concerto of 1909 has been unrecorded until now.

To all intents and purposes, the German-born Percy Sherwood was a late romantic composer, who made a significant career as both pianist and composer in Germany until 1914, but he died in London in June 1939. His output derives from the late-nineteenth century romantic tradition, a character particularly apparent in the gorgeous slow movement of his Second Piano Concerto (1932-33).

These two delightful additions to the piano concerto repertoire are issued in Dutton Epoch’s International Series.

World premiere recordings.

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