Stanford's Piano Concerto No. 2: best British piano concerto of all?

[hafod]

Apologies if already mentioned, but this set includes many of the suggestions made on this thread and is a 'no-brainer' at the price. I acquired it soon after it was released. It is classic Lyrita and hugely enjoyable.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Piano-Concertos-Various-Artists/dp/B00MPP8N84/

[EdgeleyRob]

Apologies if already mentioned, but this set includes many of the suggestions made on this thread and is a 'no-brainer' at the price. I acquired it soon after it was released. It is classic Lyrita and hugely enjoyable.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/British-Pian...dp/B00MPP8N84/

Nice.

If you fancy something a bit off the beaten track there's this enjoyable Naxos cd-


Darnton:Concertino for Piano and Strings
Ferguson:Concerto for Piano & String Orchestra, Op. 12
Gerhard:Concerto for Piano and Strings
Rowley:Piano Concerto, Op. 49

Northern Sinfonia, Peter Donohoe (piano / conductor)

[teamsaint]

Nice.

If you fancy something a bit off the beaten track there's this enjoyable Naxos cd-


Darnton:Concertino for Piano and Strings
Ferguson:Concerto for Piano & String Orchestra, Op. 12
Gerhard:Concerto for Piano and Strings
Rowley:Piano Concerto, Op. 49

Northern Sinfonia, Peter Donohoe (piano / conductor)

Cheers, ER. just picked one up for a song. wanted to get the Gerhard anyway.

I KNEW we could claim him for Britain !!!!!

[ahinton]

Cheers, ER. just picked one up for a song. wanted to get the Gerhard anyway.

I KNEW we could claim him for Britain !!!!!

Well, one might argue that he claimed Britain for himself in his decision to move to and settle there; either way, an excellent composer whose work should be far better known than it is...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... an excellent composer whose work should be far better known than it is...

[Bryn]

Or Toccata, perhaps? It really is far too fine a piece to continue largely to languish in obscurity and merely be taken off the shelves and dusted off only ever few decades or so, which is more or less what's sadly happened to it since its première more than three quarters of a century ago.

Should anyone here want to hear the Bush Piano Concerto plus an interval feature on the composer, as broadcast from Maida Vale in November 2000, just drop me a PM and I will do what I can to assist.

[Tevot]

Thanks for the Bush reminder Alister: in the absence of challengers (British composers do seem somewhat wanting for notable pc's) this one would have to be my choice, much as i do love the slighter Ireland. Alexander Goehr's in pretty good, and I'd recommend it for people with prejudices towards 12-tone music. I didn't know James Dillon had composed ...one?

Many thanks to the "boarders" for their suggestions. I'm sure I've got some happy listening in store

Currently listening to the Goehr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcS_RLcmh9k

Must admit to having a soft spot for the RVW though...

Best Wishes,

Tevot

[Richard Barrett]

Alexander Goehr's is pretty good

I really don't know what anyone sees in Goehr's music. I have a feeling that somehow it ought to be good but whenever I hear it I just can't get into it at all.

[Serial_Apologist]

I really don't know what anyone sees in Goehr's music. I have a feeling that somehow it ought to be good but whenever I hear it I just can't get into it at all.

While "respecting" Goehr's post-1976 music I tend to go more for the earlier 12-tone works, feeling that the composer really "inhabits" the idiom. Try these - especially the second String Quartet, which I think of as a genuine successor to Schoenberg's fourth.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx1aYneGQyQ-9B6bhH-iWGtWhcWXPx9Tv

(If you don't go for the Schoenberg 4, on the other hand... )

[Richard Barrett]

(If you don't go for the Schoenberg 4, on the other hand... )

No I don't really, since you mention it! but I'm not much of a Schoenberg fan in general. I guess that's not going to get me off to much of a start with Goehr.