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Purely for sound quality, this disc is a winner. It is a sumptuous, full-blooded recording with a richly resonant bass matched by the soloist's powerful Fazioli. Both concertos are real finds.
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Release Date: 25th Mar 2008
Catalogue No: CDLX7206
Label: Dutton
Series: Epoch
Length: 69 minutes

Phillips, Montague: Piano Concerto No.1 in F Sharp Minor

Work length32:12

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BBC Concert Orchestra

I. Allegro maestoso - Allegro moderato - Cadenza - Andante maestoso - Molto vivace

Track length16:48

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II. Andante cantabile

Track length7:28

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$2.10

III. Allegro con spirito

Track length7:56

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Phillips, Montague: Piano Concerto No.2 in E Major, Op.32

Work length28:54

$5.00

$7.00

BBC Concert Orchestra

I. Andante non troppo - Allegro risoluto - Più animato - Andante cantabile - Tranquillo - Allegro con spirito

Track length11:11

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$2.80

II. Lento sostenuto - Andante - Tranquillo

Track length8:19

$1.50

$2.10

III. Allegro con brio

Track length9:24

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$2.10

Hely-Hutchinson: The Young Idea: Rhapsody for Piano & Orchestra: Allegro moderato

Work length8:07

$1.50

$2.10

BBC Concert Orchestra

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Recorded at The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, 14-15 January 2008

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2010

Purely for sound quality, this disc is a winner. It is a sumptuous, full-blooded recording with a richly resonant bass matched by the soloist's powerful Fazioli. Both concertos are real finds.
The F sharp minor First Concerto (1907) has not been played for more than 95 years; the E major (1919) especially, once a favourite of conductor Vilem Tausky, is tremendously effective. It would bring the house down were it played at the Proms again (it received its premiere there in 1920) if only for the last movement's big tune which simultaneously combines Celtic lament, Elgarian nobilmente and a (prescient) celluloid weepie. True, the orchestra has the best of this, but the soloist, by the time of its final full statement, has earned a few bars' rest. Talking of whom, Norris gives the performance of his life in these two works, handling the bravura writing with aplomb and total conviction. He also has a marvellous repose at the keyboard – in the slow movement of the First Concerto, for example, before it builds to its shattering climax. Less, he knows, is more.
The final (eight-minute) work, aptly subtitled 'Cum Grano Salis' is, as the composer noted only three years after its publication in 1931, 'hopelessly out of date' and a somewhat bathetic appendage to the grand romance of Phillips's concertos.

August 2008

Both concertos are real finds. Norris gives the performance of his life in these two works, handling the bravura writing… with aplomb and total conviction.

Montague Phillips - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

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