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Album Summary
Performer
Felicja Blumental (Piano)
Notes & Reviews:
The Concerto in Brazilian Forms for Piano and Orchestra is a brilliant, evocative, richly colored and full-blooded work. The juxtaposition of elemental, sometimes barbaric, rhythms and long, expressive melodic paragraphs gives the concerto a spice and piquancy of the sort that could only grow out of its own particular background. The musical skill and mature imagination of Hekel Tavares weld the different ingredients into a thoroughly convincing whole.
Hekel Tavares was the son of a wealthly plantation owner and lived close to the land and people of Brazil. He cared more for the evocation of the spirit of national folksong and dance than with their use as melodic material. The Concerto in Brazilian Forms for Piano and Orchestra is a brilliant, evocative, richly coloured and full-blooded work. The juxtaposition of elemental, sometimes barbaric, rhythms and long, expressive melodic paragraphs gives the concerto a spice and piquancy of the sort that could only grow out of its own particular background. Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909) was born in Spain and at the tender age of nine ran away from home to Puerto Rico. For the next few years he toured Central America and the Western United States and later settled in England before studying in Brussels and Budapest. At the age of thirty-three he retired as a concert performer. He devoted himself to revealing the rich resources of the music of his native country through composition. Forming close ties with Paul Dukas and Gabriel Faure, Albeniz became a cherished member of the French musical community. In his masterpiece, Iberia, he created a source of inspiration the Spanish composers who followed him, as well as for Debussy and Ravel. Written in 1895 as an orchestral composition, the Spanish Rhapsody was later rescored by Albeniz for solo piano and orchestra and has become known as the second piano concerto. It is also popular as a piece for solo piano. Albeniz' first piano concerto, Concierto fantastico is certainly one of his most ambitious projects and perhaps one of his finest achievements. Described as 'Chopinesque', it was written in 1886 and is in 3 movements Allegro ma non troppo, Reverie e Scherzo and Allegro. This disc presents a rare recording of Hekel Tavares' Concerto in Brazilian Forms, Isaac Albeniz's vibrantly percussive Spanish Rhapsody, Op. 70 and ambitious Piano Concerto No. 1 (Concierto fantastico), Op. 78
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Works Details
Tavares, Heckel : Concerto for Piano Op. 105 no 2 - Performer: Felicja Blumental (Piano)
- Conductor: Anatole Fistoulari
- Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
- Running Time: 22 min. 6 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
- Form: Concerto
- Studio/Live: Studio
Isaac Albéniz (1860 - 1909) : Rapsodia española, Op. 70 - Performer: Felicja Blumental (Piano)
- Conductor: Luigi Toffolo
- Ensemble: Trieste Philharmonic
- Running Time: 12 min. 53 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Written: 1887
- Studio/Live: Studio
Isaac Albéniz (1860 - 1909) : Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 78 "Concierto Fantastico" - Performer: Felicja Blumental (Piano)
- Conductor: Alberto Zedda
- Ensemble: Turin Symphony Orchestra
- Running Time: 25 min. 48 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Form: Concerto
- Written: ?1887
- Studio/Live: Studio
