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complete piano concertos

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The complete piano concertos / Malcolm Williamson ; Piers Lane, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Howard Shelley.

  • Published by Hyperion — 2014 [CDA68011] — 2 CDs (117 min.)
  • Sales Availability: This item may be available to purchase from the Australian Music Centre.
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  • Library Availability: CD 2529 — Reference (not for loan) copy only

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This item may be available to purchase from the Australian Music Centre.
Please contact our Sales Department to confirm pricing and availability.

Featured Australian works

  Work Composer PerformersDuration
Concerto for two pianos and strings (1972) — piano with string orchestra
Recorded/performed at: Federation Concert Hall, Hobart, on Jul 12.
Malcolm Williamson Piers Lane, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Howard Shelley 19 mins, 50 sec.
Piano concerto No. 1 (1958) for piano with orchestra
Recorded/performed at: Federation Concert Hall, Hobart, on Apr 13.
Malcolm Williamson Piers Lane, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Howard Shelley 18 mins, 8 sec.
Piano concerto no. 2 (1960) — piano with string orchestra
Recorded/performed at: Federation Concert Hall, Hobart, on Jul 12.
Malcolm Williamson Piers Lane, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Howard Shelley 15 mins, 48 sec.
Piano concerto no. 3 (1962) for piano with orchestra
Recorded/performed at: Federation Concert Hall, Hobart, on Jul 12.
Malcolm Williamson Piers Lane, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Howard Shelley 30 mins, 4 sec.
Piano concerto No. 4 (1994) for piano with orchestra
Recorded/performed at: Federation Concert Hall, Hobart, on Apr 13.
Malcolm Williamson Piers Lane, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Howard Shelley 14 mins, 53 sec.
Sinfonia concertante — string orchestra with chamber ensemble
Recorded/performed at: Federation Concert Hall, Hobart, on Apr 13.
Malcolm Williamson Piers Lane, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Yoram Levy, Mark Bain, Martin Phillipson, Howard Shelley 17 mins, 47 sec.

Product details

A real rarity from Hyperion's Anglo-Australian artistic collaboration: music by an Australian composer who was once at the heart of the English establishment.

Malcolm Williamson was one of many Australian creative artists who relocated to Britain in the mid-twentieth century. Within a decade of settling in London he had established a reputation as one of the most gifted and prolific composers of his generation. His stature as a leading figure within the British music scene was publicly acknowledged in 1975 when he was appointed to the esteemed post of Master of the Queen's Music in succession to Sir Arthur Bliss. But today he is almost forgotten and his music virtually never performed.

This double-album set of the complete Piano Concertos is therefore an important document as well as a compendium of deeply appealing music. Williamson wrote with a generosity of emotion and melodic flair rare in the mid-twentieth century, in a forward-looking idiom.

The third concerto is perhaps the masterpiece, a huge and complex work. The fourth was written in 1993/4 and appears here as its world premiere performance and recording.

Piers Lane, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Howard Shelley are the ideal performers of these unjustly neglected works.

Duration: 117 min.


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