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Toch: Piano Concerto, etc / Botstein, Crow, Hamburg SO

1 CD / New World / 2002-11-01

Works: Ernst Toch: Concerto for Piano no 1, Op. 38; Peter Pan, a fairy tale for orchestra, Op. 76; Pinocchio, a Merry Overture; Big Ben, variation fantasy on the Westminster Chimes, for orchestra, Op. 62
Performers: Crow, Todd
Conductors: Botstein, Leon
Ensemble: Hamburg Symphony Orchestra

"Each of these three compositions combines masterly contrapuntal skill - Toch tosses off exciting, fully-worked-out fugues like some of us can gobble up chocolate eclairs...continue...