Artur Pizarro, Martyn Brabbins - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 64: Oswald & Napoleão: Piano Concertos (2014)
Artur Pizarro, Martyn Brabbins, BBC National Orchestra of Wales - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 64: Oswald & Napoleão: Piano Concertos (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & no Log) ~ 255 Mb | Total time: 67:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67984 | Recorded: 2013
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & no Log) ~ 255 Mb | Total time: 67:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA67984 | Recorded: 2013
Portuguese virtuoso Artur Pizarro makes a welcome return to the Romantic Piano Concerto series with the outpourings of two brilliant pianist-composers. Their names may not be familiar to listeners today. The Brazilian Henrique Oswald and the Portuguese Alfredo Napoleão were born in the same year, less than three months apart, when Schumann, Brahms and Liszt were alive and Chopin recently deceased. Both were of mixed European heritage: Oswald with a Swiss-German father and Italian mother, Napoleão with an Italian father and Portuguese mother. Both were child prodigies who became widely travelled concert pianists, pedagogues and composers. In 1868 Oswald gave his ‘farewell recital’ and left Rio de Janeiro to study in Europe; Napoleão went to Brazil.
Oswald’s Piano Concerto in G minor, Op 10, dates from about 1886, the year he met Liszt. Although influences of Fauré can be detected in the second theme, the overall character of the first movement owes more to the late Romantic German style. The orchestration is rich and full, but the Tchaikovskian athleticism and virtuosity of the piano-writing keep the soloist to the fore.
Napoleão’s Piano Concerto No 2 in E flat minor, Op 31, is undated but was probably composed around the same time as Oswald’s Piano Concerto. Although Napoleão performed the concerto in a solo piano version, the first performance with orchestra had to wait until 12 February 1941. This was given by Evaristo de Campos Coelho (1903–1988)—with whom Artur Pizarro, the pianist on the present recording, studied as a young child. He played the work numerous times, and performed it for Portuguese radio. Dinorah Leitão (who was Ivo Cruz’s daughter in law, and also a student of Campos Coelho) then played it, and Artur Pizarro is only the third pianist to champion this work.
Performer:
Artur Pizarro, piano
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Martyn Brabbins, conductor
Tracklist:
Henrique Oswald (1852-1931)
Piano Concerto in G minor Op 10
01. I. Allegro (un poco agitato)
02. II. Adagio –
03. III. Allegro
Alfredo Napoleão dos Santos (1852-1917)
Piano Concerto No 2 in E flat minor Op 31
04. I. Andantino maestoso
05. II. Scherzo: Allegro vivace – Più lento – Tempo I
06. III. Allegro – Più vivo
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Artur Pizarro, Martyn Brabbins - The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 64: Oswald & Napoleão: Piano Concertos (2014)
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