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Piston: Violin Concerots Nos. 1 and 2; Fantasia Concertos
 
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Piston: Violin Concerots Nos. 1 and 2; Fantasia Concertos

~ Walter Piston (Composer), Theodore Kuchar (Conductor), Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), James Buswell (Violin)
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Product details

  • Orchestra: Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra
  • Conductor: Theodore Kuchar
  • Composer: Walter Piston
  • Audio CD (1 Oct 1999)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Naxos
  • ASIN: B00000DHT6
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 125,998 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Violin Concerto No. 1: I Allegro energico 8:22Album Only
Listen  2. Violin Concerto No. 1: II Andantino molto tranquillo 6:34£0.69
Listen  3. Violin Concerto No. 1: III Allegro con spririto 6:48£0.69
Listen  4. Fantasia for Violin and Orchestra14:39Album Only
Listen  5. Violin Concerto No. 2: I Moderato 8:03Album Only
Listen  6. Violin Concerto No. 2: II Adagio11:08Album Only
Listen  7. Violin Concerto No. 2: III Allegro 5:26£0.69

On this CD:
  1. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1
    Composed by Walter Piston
    with James Buswell
    Conducted by Theodore Kuchar

  2. Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2
    Composed by Walter Piston
    with James Buswell
    Conducted by Theodore Kuchar

  3. Fantasia for Violin and Orchestra
    Composed by Walter Piston
    with James Buswell
    Conducted by Theodore Kuchar

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Piston's First Violin Concerto (1939), which was once recorded on a German LP, is a prize. It's as entertaining as Piston's popular Incredible Flutist, yet so carefully crafted and serious in content as to be satisfying on every level. The other two works were written much later (in 1960 and 1970), and they are both more introspective and a bit less accessible. But they are still very rewarding music. Kuchar, who studied and lives in the U.S., has his fine Ukrainian orchestra playing as though they've known the music for decades. Buswell, who lives across the street from Piston's graveyard, sounds as though he's in touch with the composer's spirit. Add state-of-the-art sound and the disc is a total winner. --Leslie Gerber

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5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensible Piston, 25 Oct 2000
By Dr. R. G. Bullock "Gavin Bullock" (Winchester, UK) - See all my reviews
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This CD is one of Naxos' successful American series. Piston was a distinguished American composer who died in 1976. An academic at Harvard, he wrote several standard textbooks on composition. He taught himself to play the saxophone and violin, yet was obviously a quiet, slightly introverted man as you might presume from the pipe-smoking man in the photo in the sleeve note. A man of tremendous accomplishment, greatly respected by his fellow composers. The works for violin and orchestra recorded here span over 30 years. The 1st concerto (1939) could be described as Neoclassical in the sense that the textures are pared down, the orchestra being kept in its place to allow the violin to sing and there is no over-blown emotion. The opening reminded me a bit of the opening of Stravinsky's own violin concerto. The whole piece is immensely enjoyable. One is conscious that Piston knows exactly where he is going at all times. He apparently never revised anything. The second concerto (1960) is a bit more dissonant and the orchestration perhaps a bit more fulsome but the violin is always allowed its way. There is a gentle sadness in the middle movement and the final one opens with a bang, ending the piece with a brilliant allegro. The final piece (second on the CD) is the Fantasia (1970). In some ways this is the most interesting piece if only because it indicates how Piston was moving in his old age. Like a number of important tonal composers at this time, Piston was incorporating elements of serialism, al la Schoenberg, into his work. Britten, Walton, Shostakovitch and Rawsthorne were others. Many of us detest serialism but all of these composers subsumed it to their own tonal language. In the Fantasia, Piston uses an extreme chromatic style to produce a quite fascinating piece. Mysterious and darkly beautiful and quite different from the two concertos. It is only fair to say that many traditionalists will find this difficult, even ugly. Keep listening! James Buswell is faultless and the playing of the National SO of Ukraine under Theordore Kuchar is marvellous. The recording in first class. At bargain price, this is important release.
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