Alun Hoddinott: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 & other concertos

Release Date: 24th Sep 2007
Catalogue No: SRCD330
Label: Lyrita

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Hoddinott: Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra, Op. 3 (1950)

Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Philip Fowke (piano), Martin Jones (piano) & Osian Ellis (harp)
London Symphony Orchestra & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
David Atherton, Andrew Davis & Barry Wordsworth

Hoddinott: Harp Concerto Op. 11 (1957 rev. 1970)

Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Philip Fowke (piano), Martin Jones (piano) & Osian Ellis (harp)
London Symphony Orchestra & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
David Atherton, Andrew Davis & Barry Wordsworth

Hoddinott: Piano Concerto No. 1 Op. 19 (1960)

Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Philip Fowke (piano), Martin Jones (piano) & Osian Ellis (harp)
London Symphony Orchestra & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
David Atherton, Andrew Davis & Barry Wordsworth

Hoddinott: Piano Concerto No. 2 Op. 21 (1960 rev. 1969)

Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Philip Fowke (piano), Martin Jones (piano) & Osian Ellis (harp)
London Symphony Orchestra & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
David Atherton, Andrew Davis & Barry Wordsworth

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Alun Hoddinott was born in Bargoed, Glamorganshire, South Wales. He showed musical aptitude young, beginning violin lessons at the age of four, later becoming a founder-member (playing the viola) of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales. He won a composition scholarship to the University College of South Wales at sixteen. Hoddinott began composing as a boy, but withdrew most of his early works, including some that had already been performed and broadcast. His sequence of symphonies has been seen as the centre of his achievement, but his concertos are hardly less important. By the time of his Third Symphony, completed when he was forty, he had written thirteen concertante works, for a wide range of solo instruments and scorings. The early concertos for oboe and for clarinet are with strings only, the First Piano Concerto uses wind and percussion without strings, the Organ Concerto a large orchestra particularly rich in percussion …

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