Field: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 - Naxos: 8553770 - CD or download | Presto Classical

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Benjamin Frith presents a very formidable challenge to rival versions, at super-budget price.
Both works are played with effortless fluency, plus all the immediacy and freshness of new discovery.... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: 8553770
Label: Naxos
Length: 51 minutes

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Field: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, H27

20:49

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Benjamin Frith (piano)
Northern Sinfonia
David Haslam
Recorded: 5-6 January 1996
Recording Venue: Jubilee Theatre, St. Nicholas Hospital, Newcastle, UK

I. Allegro

9:07

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II. Air Eccosais 'Within a Mile of Edinburgh Town': Adagio non troppo

6:31

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III. Finale: Allegro vivace

5:11

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Field: Piano Concerto No. 3 in E flat major, H32

31:02

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$8.40

Benjamin Frith (piano)
Northern Sinfonia
David Haslam
Recorded: 5-6 January 1996
Recording Venue: Jubilee Theatre, St. Nicholas Hospital, Newcastle, UK

I. Allegro moderato

17:56

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II. Rondo: Tempo di polacca

13:06

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2010

Benjamin Frith presents a very formidable challenge to rival versions, at super-budget price.
Both works are played with effortless fluency, plus all the immediacy and freshness of new discovery. In No 1 Frith is acutely responsive to the delicate charm of the Scottish-inspired ('Twas within a mile of Edinboro' Town) slow movement. He makes one aware of Field's teasing delight in the unexpected in the smiling outer movements, to which he brings a wide range of tone, and piquant accentuation in the last. There's warm, sympathetic support from the Northern Sinfonia under David Haslam.
The performers revel in the composer's surprises of modulation, rhythm and orchestral colouring, while from the soloist there isn't a trace of the perfunctory in passagework. The recording (in a resonant venue) might be thought overforward and full, but it remains a true bargain.

Both works are played with the effortless fluency we know from his Mendelssohn series - plus all the immediacy and freshness of new discovery

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