Piers Lane, David Lloyd-Jones, Ulster Orchestra - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 39: Delius & Ireland: Piano Concertos (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & no Log) ~ 253 Mb | Total time: 64:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67296 | Recorded: 2005
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & no Log) ~ 253 Mb | Total time: 64:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67296 | Recorded: 2005
Hyperion’s record of the month for January presents, for the first time, the original version of Delius’s Piano Concerto. Two years after completing this work in 1904, Delius recast it, rejecting the third movement and reorganizing other material. Perhaps thinking that the solo part wasn’t sufficiently pianistic, Delius also consulted a friend, the Busoni pupil Theodor Szántó, who rewrote the piano part in virtuoso style (with Delius’s ultimate approval). It is the Szántó version that has, until now, always been performed. With Delius’s original, characteristically refined orchestration also restored (from the orchestral parts that survive from the first performance in 1904), we can now hear this work as the composer envisaged before the involvement of another hand.