Stravinsky: Music for Solo Piano and Piano and Orchestra

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All are superbly crisp and clean, and David Atherton has his Hong Kong orchestra on its toes. Both the Concerto and the Capriccio demonstrate extra energy just when interest might be in danger... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2018 More…

Release Date: 29th Dec 2017
Catalogue No: SOMMCD266-2
Label: Somm
Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

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Stravinsky: Three Movements from Petrushka

Work length16:49

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Peter Donohoe (piano)
Recorded: 14-16 September 2016 and 24 June 2017
Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, United Kingdom

No. 1, Russian Dance

Track length2:26

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No. 2, Petrushka's Cell

Track length5:12

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No. 3, The Shrove-tide Fair

Track length9:11

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Stravinsky: Études (4) for piano, Op. 7

Work length8:18

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Peter Donohoe (piano)
Recorded: 14-16 September 2016 and 24 June 2017
Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, United Kingdom

No. 1 in C Minor

Track length1:33

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No. 2 in D Major

Track length3:07

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No. 3 in E Minor

Track length1:43

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No. 4 in F-Sharp Major

Track length1:55

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Stravinsky: Piano Sonata in F sharp minor (1903-4)

Work length29:14

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Peter Donohoe (piano)
Recorded: 14-16 September 2016 and 24 June 2017
Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, United Kingdom

I. Allegro

Track length10:45

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II. Scherzo

Track length5:07

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III. Andante

Track length7:13

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IV. Allegro - Andante

Track length6:09

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Stravinsky: Piano Sonata (1924)

Work length10:17

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Peter Donohoe (piano)
Recorded: 14-16 September 2016 and 24 June 2017
Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, United Kingdom

I. Quarter Note = 112

Track length2:58

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II. Adagietto

Track length4:44

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III. Quarter Note = 112

Track length2:35

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Stravinsky: Serenade in A for piano

Work length11:42

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Peter Donohoe (piano)
Recorded: 14-16 September 2016 and 24 June 2017
Recording Venue: Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, United Kingdom

I. Hymne

Track length3:25

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II. Romanza

Track length2:55

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III. Rondoletto

Track length2:33

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IV. Cadenza finale

Track length2:49

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Stravinsky: Piano-Rag-Music

Work length3:34

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Peter Donohoe (piano)

Stravinsky: Tango

Work length3:13

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Peter Donohoe (piano)

Stravinsky: Concerto for Piano & Wind Instruments

Work length19:17

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Peter Donohoe (piano)
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
David Atherton
Recorded: 26-29 January 1999
Recording Venue: Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Hong Kong

I. Largo - Allegro

Track length7:23

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II. Largo - Più mosso

Track length7:01

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III. Allegro - Agitato

Track length4:53

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Stravinsky: Movements for Piano & Orchestra

Work length9:28

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Peter Donohoe (piano)
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
David Atherton
Recorded: 26-19 January 1999
Recording Venue: Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Hong Kong

I. Eighth Note = 110

Track length2:47

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II. Quarter Note = 52

Track length1:25

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III. Eighth Note = 72

Track length1:09

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IV. Eighth Note = 80

Track length1:59

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V. Eighth Note = 104

Track length2:08

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Stravinsky: Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra

Work length16:34

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Peter Donohoe (piano)
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
David Atherton
Recorded: 4-6 July 1995
Recording Venue: Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Hong Kong

I. Allegro

Track length6:34

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II. Andante rapsodico

Track length4:37

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III. Allegro capriccioso ma sempre giusto

Track length5:23

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Peter Donohoe’s compelling journey through the complete Prokofiev and subsequently the complete Scriabin Piano Sonatas for SOMM has led him almost irresistibly to the piano music of Stravinsky whose exuberance and many technical challenges he seems to relish. He begins with three movements from Petrushka for solo piano, drawn directly from the ballet by the composer ten years after the completion of the orchestral score. Stravinsky’s goal (together with the jazz-like Piano-Rag-Music) was to encourage pianist Arthur Rubinstein to play his music. His intention was to make the arrangement not only technically challenging but also musically satisfying. Such are its demands however, that even the composer himself only played it once, confessing that he lacked the technique. Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring earned him the fame of an iconoclast who showed utter disregard for the beautiful colours and gentle rhythms of the impressionists. He created instead, a fresh and exciting wave of music for a new age which inevitably divided opinion. His tongue-in-cheek remark during an interview in The Observer that his music was only understood by children and animals also serves to describe its true essence -- music of genuine poetic delicacy allied to technical sleight of musical hand. A good example are the Four Etudes, Op. 7 which focus on heightened chromaticisms together with difficult and irregular rhythmical structures for the pianist. This set also includes Stravinsky’s early, charmingly delicate F-sharp minor Sonata which he completed in 1904 but it was only published in 1973. The Piano Sonata of 1924, also included here, was composed during his neo-classical period and pays tribute to the 18th century containing characteristic splashes of baroque brilliance as well as latent romanticism. 1940’s Tango, originally conceived as a song, was composed soon after Stravinsky emigrated to the United States. The works for piano and orchestra on Disc 2 are earlier recordings recorded and released by GMN Inc., about 20 years ago with David Atherton conducting the Hong Kong Philharmonic and Peter Donohoe as soloist: These are Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments, cast in three contrasting movements and rooted in the composer’s concerto grosso form teeming with fully modern idioms. 1959’s Movements for piano and orchestra written in 5 short movements, shows Stravinsky’s later preoccupation with serialism and his undiminishing appetite for pioneering music which pushed new boundaries. Peter Donohoe ends with the effervescent Capriccio for piano and orchestra. Its composition followed his Ballet Le baiser de la fée and it shares that work’s graceful rhythms and refined melodic style.

Reviews

March 2018

All are superbly crisp and clean, and David Atherton has his Hong Kong orchestra on its toes. Both the Concerto and the Capriccio demonstrate extra energy just when interest might be in danger of flagging.

September/October 2018

Admirers of the angular Stravinsky have plenty to engage with in the Piano-Rag-Music and the Tango as well as the three concertante works. These- The Concerto, Capriccio and serial Movements-are winningly performed. A splendid and engrossing issue.

21st January 2018

This double album covers most of Stravinsky’s single-pianist oeuvre, including the three concerted works, in sparkling performances. Three Movements from Petrushka, a brilliant recreation of the ballet, comes here even closer to the original, for Donohoe inserts the drum rolls and other material Stravinsky omitted.

Stravinsky: Music for Solo Piano and Piano and Orchestra

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