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The World's First Piano Concertos

~ Carl Friedrich Abel (Composer), Johann Christian Bach (Composer), Phillip Hayes (Composer), James Hook (Composer), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), et al.
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  • Composer: Carl Friedrich Abel, Johann Christian Bach, Phillip Hayes, James Hook, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Audio CD (18 Aug 2003)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Avie
  • ASIN: B00008V6XL
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 122,902 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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On this CD:
  1. (6) Concertos for Keyboard and Strings
    Composed by Johann Christian Bach
    Performed by Ensemble Sonnerie
    with David Owen Norris

  2. (6) Concertos for Piano and Orchestra
    Composed by Carl Friedrich Abel
    Performed by Ensemble Sonnerie
    with David Owen Norris

  3. (6) Concertos for Keyboard and Strings
    Composed by Johann Christian Bach
    Performed by Ensemble Sonnerie
    with David Owen Norris

  4. (6) Concertos for the Harpsichord or Forte-Piano
    Composed by James Hook
    Performed by Ensemble Sonnerie
    with David Owen Norris

  5. (6) Concertos for the Organ, Harpsichord or Forte-Piano
    Composed by Philip Hayes
    Performed by Ensemble Sonnerie
    with David Owen Norris

  6. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D
    Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Performed by Ensemble Sonnerie
    with David Owen Norris

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5.0 out of 5 stars Surprising and really rather compelling!, 14 April 2009
By Mr. Mark A. Meldon (Somerset UK) - See all my reviews
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Don't ask me why, but I have developed a taste for the fortepiano and, whilst looking for something else entirely, stumbled upon this 2003 Avie (an excellent record label) quite by accident. When I first put the CD into my player and heard the square piano in the J C Bach Concerto that opens the programme, I laughed out loud!

I could hear what sounds a bit like hearing a fortepiano set in some sort of distant room or down the wrong end of a telescope to choose a not entirely appropriate analogy when you see the pictures of the instrument being played.

Then I listened on and became struck by how "right" all of this very tuneful music sounded. I have now played this disc 15 or so times and I'm hooked! Aside from 3 J C Bach concertos, we have Carl Abel from 1774, Philip Hayes in the world's first piano concerto from 1769, and James Hook from 1770.

Expert players are to be found here. Leader David Owen Norris is joined by Monica Hugget, Emilia Benjamin, and Joseph Crouch. You can tell that they had a lot of fun recording this CD in 2002, and, for something off the beaten track, this is very highly recommended indeed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I'M HOOKED ON HOOK (AND THE OTHERS ... ), 25 Aug 2009
By B. CORNELIUS (BRIGHTON, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is a fantastic disc of music which we never hear played, even on modern instruments. Goodness knows why - it's excellent stuff, and a terrible indictment that we don't hear it and more of the glorious music written by British composers during the mid-eighteenth century, on mainstream recordings, in the concert hall, and on Radio 3, etc. I picked it up at Hatchlands in Surrey, where the square pianos are housed which were used in the recording, and fascinating it all is. Tiny instruments which sound rather like mandolines, accompanied by a string trio (though surely more players might have been used in the non-solo tutti sections, as on the Hyperion Parley of Instruments recordings?), the performances by David Owen Norris and Sonnerie are excellent - lively, invigorating, sensitive.
I've grown to particularly love the concerto by James Hook, which always has me up and dancing and singing along (and that's quite an effort for this old age pensioner), but they're all exciting musically, and if not heavyweights, are quite representative of their period and place, when the lightweight, melodious galant style was 'the rage'.
Incidentally, when I came to write this review I put the title, performers, and label details into the 'Advanced Search' menu, only to be told that there was no such recording. How do Amazon expect punters to find their way to what they want when their listings for classical music are so inaccurate and unhelpful????
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