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The Second and Third Piano Concertos, together with the ambitious SymphonicFantasia, make a fine follow-up to the coupling of the First Piano Concerto and Violin Concerto. Such largesse deserves... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 25th Jun 2007
Catalogue No: CDLX7187
Label: Dutton
Length: 74 minutes

Bowen: Piano Concerto No. 2 ('Concertstück') in D Minor, Op. 17

Work length21:41

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BBC Concert Orchestra

I. Moderato - Allegro deciso - meno mosso - Allegro con spirito

Track length6:48

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II. Lento espressivo - Maestoso e appassionato

Track length5:35

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III. Allegro - Allegro assai - Allegro deciso - Allegro assai

Track length9:18

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Bowen: Piano Concerto No. 3 ('Fantasia') in G Minor, Op. 23

Work length19:48

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BBC Concert Orchestra

I. Moderato - Allegro con spirito - Tempo 1 - poco maestoso

Track length7:17

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II. Andante grazioso - Piu Lento - Allegro - Molto maestoso

Track length4:54

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III. Allegro con fuoco - Animato

Track length7:37

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Bowen: Symphonic Fantasia

Work length33:18

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BBC Concert Orchestra

a tone poem, Op. 16: I. Lento (ma non troppo)

Track length6:19

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a tone poem, Op. 16: ii Allegro molto

Track length4:31

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a tone poem, Op. 16: iii Molto meno mosso (moserato) - Appassionato - Lento espressivo

Track length8:32

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a tone poem, Op. 16: IV. Allegretto grazioso

Track length2:47

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a tone poem, Op. 16: V. Allegro con spirito

Track length3:41

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a tone poem, Op. 16: VI. Piu mosso

Track length7:28

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Recorded at The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford 20-21 February 2007

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2010

The Second and Third Piano Concertos, together with the ambitious SymphonicFantasia, make a fine follow-up to the coupling of the First Piano Concerto and Violin Concerto. Such largesse deserves the highest praise and it is easy to see a wry if grateful smile crossing Bowen's face if he were alive as he remembered his dismissal by modernists who viewed him as little better than a seashell washed ashore in a ruthlessly unaccommodating age.
Today, Bowen's unapologetic romanticism has found several champions taken by his warmth and sincerity and an open-hearted nostalgia for less brittle, over-sophisticated times. How hard it is to resist the appeal of the Second Concerto's Lento espressivo. How easy to imagine an elegantly attired audience greeting the finale's virtuoso close with gloved plaudits, sighing with delight over present if fast-receding conservative values. The rippling charm of the Third Concerto's central Andante grazioso and the finale's sunlit capers are sure to please.
So, too, is the Symphonic Fantasia, an ideal ballet score where the third movement's nodal and expressive centre is countered by the fifth movement's proud ceremonial stance. All this is superbly performed by Vernon Handley while Michael Dussek plays with brilliant facility and the warmest musical commitment. Dutton's sound is excellent.

November 2007

Today, Bowen's unapologetic romanticism has found several champions taken by his warmth and sincerity and an open-hearted nostalgia for less brittle, over-sophisticated times. All this is superbly performed by Vernon Handley while Michael Dussek (who teaches at Bowen's alma mater, the Royal Academy of Music) plays with brilliant facility and the warmest musical commitment. Dutton's sound is excellent and so is Lewis Foreman's predictably informative essay.

York Bowen - Piano Concerto Nos. 2 & 3

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