The Romantic Piano Concerto 11: Franz Xaver Scharwenka & Emil von Sauer (1995)
Stephen Hough, piano; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Lawrence Foster, conductor
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Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66790 | Time: 01:09:55
Stephen Hough, piano; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Lawrence Foster, conductor
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 260 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 162 Mb | Artwork included
Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA66790 | Time: 01:09:55
Scharwenka was one of the most beloved of musical figures during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His Concerto No 4 in F minor, written in 1908, was greeted at its premiere with astonishing enthusiasm from an audience ‘which may, without exaggeration, be said to have included almost every pianist – virtuoso, teacher and student – in Berlin’. Two years later Scharwenka was to give his first performance of the work at a concert in New York. The conductor was Gustav Mahler. Emil Von Sauer’s compositions have suffered from an even greater neglect, wholly unjustifiable, than Scharwenka’s. The E minor Concerto had already gone through eight printings by 1908 when he performed it in Chicago: “It was no matter for astonishment that when the pianist-composer had brought the work to its conclusion a storm of genuine enthusiasm should seep the house from gallery to floor … Mr Sauer represents a school of piano-playing that has all but vanished. The pianists who are now moulding the taste of the public are, one and all, engaged in the questionable task of reproducing with their instruments effects that are orchestral … but in the meantime we are in danger of forgetting the joys of pure pianism. To such joys Mr Sauer has awakened us.” Two first recordings, played by one of the greatest virtuoso pianists today.
Here, surely, is the jewel in the crown in Hyperion's absorbing series, The Romantic Piano Concerto; a flawless marriage of composer, performance, recording and presentation. Scharwenka's Fourth Piano Concerto (his own particular favourite) is a far cry from his early, ubiquitous success, the E flat minor Polish Dance (''that fatal romp'' as he called it). Grand, Lisztian ambitions are fulfilled and embellished in writing of the most ferocious intricacy and the tarantella finale, in particular, throws everything at the pianist, seemingly simultaneously. It is therefore hardly surprising that after early triumphs the Fourth Concerto fell into neglect. At its second performance, given in 1910 with Scharwenka as soloist and Mahler as conductor, it was described as being of a ''truly Dionysian and bewildering brilliancy'', a phrase that, lifted into our own times, encapsulates Stephen Hough's astonishing performance. For here is a scintillating wit and ebullience that will make lesser technicians and stylists weep with envy. As magisterial as it is ear-tickling and affectionate, his playing glows with warmth in the third movement Lento and pulses with the most nonchalant glitter in the finale; one guaranteed to strike down less intrepid and fluent spirits with St Vitus's dance.
Then there is Sauer's First Concerto, its key a warm, over-the-shoulder memory of Chopin's E minor Concerto, yet with a style and content to make even the least susceptible listeners' heads nod and feet tap. The Cavatina is as luscious and enchanting as the finale is teasingly brief and light-hearted. Throughout, haunting melodies are embroidered with the finest pianistic tracery and, once again, the performance is bewitching. In the Cavatina Hough's caressing, fine-spun tone and long-breathed phrasing are a model for singers as well as pianists, and in the finale there is a lightly deployed virtuosity that epitomizes his aristocratic style.
Naturally, the spotlight falls unashamedly on the soloist in such music, but the orchestra have no small part in the proceedings, and Lawrence Foster and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra are superbly resilient and enthusiastic, with strings that sing their hearts out, notably in the third movement of the Sauer. These are both premiere recordings, and the sound and balance are exemplary. But my final word must go to Stephen Heliotis who first offered these concertos to Hough for his delectation and unremitting toil, and whose accompanying notes deserve separate publication for their wit and perspicacity. A record, then, to rival and, indeed perhaps surpass Stephen Hough's early Gramophone Award-winning disc of Hummel concertos (Chandos, 6/87).'Review by Bryce Morrison, Gramophone
Stephen Hough, piano
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Lawrence Foster, conductor
rec. 18-19 Dec 1994, Dudley Town Hall, Warwickshire
Tracklist:
Franz Xaver Scharwenka (1850-1924)
Piano Concerto No.4 in F minor, Op.82
01. I. Allegro patetico (18:40)
02. II. Intermezzo. Allegretto molto tranquillo (6:56)
03. III. Lento, mesto (7:25)
04. IV. Allegro con fuoco (6:42)
Emil von Sauer (1862-1942)
Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor
05. I. Allegro patetico (11:00)
06. II. Scherzo. Molto vivace - Andante con moto, quasi Allegretto - Tempo I(6:51)
07. III. Cavatina. Larghetto amoroso (7:45)
08. IV. Rondo. Tempo giusto (4:36)
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