Piano Concertos from The Netherlands [3CDs] (2025)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 690 Mb | Total time: 03:08:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 97000 | Recorded: 1994-1995
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 690 Mb | Total time: 03:08:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 97000 | Recorded: 1994-1995
An unrivalled collection of lesser-known 20th-century piano concertos in both Romantic and modern styles, in definitive recordings by Dutch artists. This survey of Dutch piano concertos actually begins in 1886, with the A minor work by Carl Smulders (1863-1934). Smulders sidesteps convention by opening not with a grand gesture but a slow, expectant build-up, breaking the template for A minor piano concertos established first by Schumann and then Grieg. The piano writing itself has a lyrically Griegian flavour, however, which Ivo Janssen brings out in this 1994 recording.