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Arthur Bliss: Piano Concerto; Piano Sonata; Concerto for Two Pianos

~ Arthur Bliss (Composer), David Lloyd-Jones (Conductor), Royal Scottish National Orchestra (Orchestra), Peter Donohoe (Piano)
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  • Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
  • Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones
  • Composer: Arthur Bliss
  • Audio CD (5 Jan 2004)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Naxos
  • ASIN: B0000ZKY10
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 107,731 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Piano Concerto: Allegro con brioDavid Lloyd-Jones16:47Album Only
Listen  2. Piano Concerto: AdagiettoPeter Donohoe10:39Album Only
Listen  3. Piano Concerto: Andante maestoso - Molto vivoPeter Donohoe11:25Album Only
Listen  4. Piano Sonata: Moderato marcatoPeter Donohoe 7:58£0.69
Listen  5. Piano Sonata: Adagio serenoPeter Donohoe 7:56£0.69
Listen  6. Piano Sonata: AllegroPeter Donohoe 5:57£0.69
Listen  7. Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra: Allegro giusto - Larghetto tranquillo - VivoDavid Lloyd-Jones12:09Album Only


On this CD:
  1. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
    Composed by Sir Arthur Bliss
    Performed by Royal Scottish National Orchestra
    with Peter Donohoe
    Conducted by David Lloyd-Jones

  2. Sonata for Piano
    Composed by Sir Arthur Bliss
    with Peter Donohoe

  3. Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra
    Composed by Sir Arthur Bliss
    with Martin Roscoe, Peter Donohoe


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Amazon.co.uk Review

The story of Arthur Bliss' career is one of steady assimilation to an assumed British mainstream of thumping big tunes to which he was--at least in his early post-Impressionist stage and his Jazz age modernist phase--something of an alien. Yet the ambitious 1939 Piano Concerto includes all these aspects, satisfactorily combined in a work that alternates the magisterial and the mercurial, the gently flowing and the fiercely dynamic. It was written for Solomon, but Peter Donohoe has the work's measure, too, and makes it wholly his own.

This excellent disc usefully includes both Bliss' Piano Sonata from the 1950s and the Double Piano Concerto that he worked on at various points, and rewrote for various combinations of soloists, throughout his career. This Naxos release is a superlative bargain that allows us to get to know a composer whose Establishment status in old ages sometimes obscures his early radicalism and middle-period accomplishment. --Roz Kaveney


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5.0 out of 5 stars A BRITISH MUSICAL OFFERING TO AMERICA, 3 April 2004
By DAVID BRYSON (Glossop Derbyshire England) - See all my reviews
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The Bliss piano concerto and I are old acquaintances. It was premiered ten days before I myself came into the world, and I heard it performed in the 1950's by the original soloist with the same orchestra (then lacking only the prefix 'royal') as on this disc. One sad recollection is that I was able to hear it in the old St Andrew's Halls in Glasgow, one of the finest concert-halls in all Europe, now destroyed in a fire. Probably the only real reservation I have concerning this record is that I miss that marvellous acoustic. I have never attended a concert in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, but I could have done with rather more spaciousness and 'air' in the orchestral sound, and a little more ring to the piano tone in the two concertos, whether or not the new hall's acoustic is responsible for the lack.

Peter Donohoe seems to me considerably under-appreciated. He is not only a more assured virtuoso than the original soloist Solomon ever was, he is a very assured stylist as well. Anyone with a tentative interest in the British Piano Concerto Foundation, under whose auspices this record is issued, might prefer to start with this disc than with its excellent predecessor the Rawsthorne concertos. Bliss did not have as strong or distinctive a musical voice as his English contemporaries Delius and Walton did, but his style is no mere matter of a scissors-and-paste collage of various musical idioms current at the time. He has something of his own to say, to my ears something very attractive, interesting and agreeable, and I can hardly imagine a better and more confident advocate for it than Donohoe. There is some very striking piano playing here, in particular some fine martellato trills near the end of the solo concerto's first movement that make me interested to hear this soloist in the Brahms D minor.

The other two works on the record are Bliss's piano sonata and a short concerto for two pianos, in which Donohoe is joined by Martin Roscoe in a very sympathetic, democratic and polished partnership. Something approaching solo status is also given in this work to the xylophone, and as far as that is concerned the acoustic, whatever my slight reservations about it in general, works to its advantage. I think you would probably know that this was English music. However the solo concerto was written specifically for the New York World Fair in 1939 and is specifically dedicated to the people of America. I am quite unable to comment on the composer's view that the concerto should be 'romantic' in style because the American public are of a romantic disposition. Bliss was part-American by parentage, Donohoe is English but presumably of Irish extraction, I myself am Scottish and happy to hear how the orchestra from which I first learned about orchestral music has developed into a world-class band, but probably not well placed to assess the comparative romanticism of Americans. To my own ears this is thoroughly engaging music that I expect to be playing frequently. In fact the most notable revival of a British piano concerto was by no less than Sviatoslav Richter, whose record of Britten's concerto with the composer conducting is in the current catalogues, although not as part of the series under review here. Among them they are making me eager to hear more of it, and I commend this issue wholeheartedly.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Chromium-plated Brahms, 24 Mar 2004
By Andy Barrow (Southsea, UK) - See all my reviews
Over 35 years of classical music listening I've heard the Bliss concerto 4-5 times, and its sheer exuberance has always impressed me. A few weeks ago I heard it live for the first time, and it was a knockout performance (Peter Donohoe the soloist). A chromium-plated Brahms concerto, dedicated To the People of the United States of America by a composer who was half-American. I bought this CD the following week. Bliss, avantgarde in his youth, had by the late 1930's embraced a more conventional musical style, but it's great fun all the same. The Piano Sonata is memorable too and the short Concerto for Two Pianos is worth an occasional airing. Bliss, to my mind, writes tunes that are memorable, and that's worth a lot to me.
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