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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Outstanding release
29 Dec 1999
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Outstanding playing and recorded sound throughout! With its budget price, you should purchase immediately...
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Outstanding release
29 Dec 1999
Format:Audio CD
Outstanding playing and recorded sound throughout! With its budget price, you should purchase immediately...
3 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Tippetts for living
30 April 2005
Format:Audio CD
I must first qualify this review by telling you that I'm a Romantic Era fellow at heart. I loath this mid-20th century music, so you might take this review with a grain of salt. Hopefully, at the least you'll find it entertaining. The oratorio of 1944, A Child of Our Time, introduced Tippett to the general public. I had the misfortune of hearing my local symphony and chorus integrate the oratorio's themes of oppression, prejudice and tolerance into their own creative expression and search for meaning. How ennobling! How I hated it! But in the 40's, music lovers in the States were captivated by this iconoclastic music, and the love affair continued into the '50's with the premier of Tippett's Ritual Dances and Piano Concerto. Written with a profound understanding of harmony and counterpoint, the dances and concerto on this disk should please those who appreciate this musical style. I, however, prefer to leave the room humming a tune - a difficult task with these pieces. The four Ritual Dances - from the opera Midsummer Marriage - sequence as an allegro, adagio, scherzo, and another allegro with at least four tonality shifts; however to my ears the dances run together in one long Tippettness, forming what I imagine to be quite a bit of hustle and bustle and staggering around the dance floor. Swan Lake it ain't - a jazz dance perchance? (Please don't invite me to the dance.) Seemingly written in the key of H, the piano concerto has been described as having Romantic roots...well, perhaps on another planet. I am hard pressed to think of any Romantic Era piano concerto that remotely resembles Tippett's. Having a traditional pattern of first movement sonata and third movement rondo does not a Romantic concerto make. The original soloist considered the solo part unplayable. (Give the man a hand.) But it's playable all right...listenable is a different story unless you enjoy the progressive composition of Tippett and his cohorts. Benjamin Frith plays brilliantly. For more of him on Naxos see his Mendelssohn piano concertos and Rachmaninov's third.
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