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Vernon Duke: Piano Concerto; Cello Concerto; Homage to Boston

~ Samuel Magill (Cello), Vernon Duke (Composer), Dmitry Yablonsky (Conductor), Russian Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra), Scott Dunn (Piano)
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  • Orchestra: Russian Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Conductor: Dmitry Yablonsky
  • Composer: Vernon Duke
  • Audio CD (29 Oct 2007)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Naxos
  • ASIN: B000WPJ630
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 262,990 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly Good Concert Music by Vernon Duke, 29 Feb 2008
By J Scott Morrison (Middlebury VT, USA) - See all my reviews
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I put off opening this CD and listening to it, because I was just snooty enough to think that it probably wouldn't be all that good. After all, my only knowledge of Vernon Duke was as a writer of popular songs -- such things as 'April in Paris', 'Taking a Chance on Love', 'Autumn in New York' -- and I assumed, wrongly as it turns out, that it would be as earnest but amateurish as similar efforts by other pop composers like Paul McCartney. I did, in the back on my mind, remember that Vernon Duke was originally Vladimir Dukelsky and that he had had some sort of classical training back in Russia, but I had never heard a note of his classical works. So I wasn't prepared for the delights that this CD contains.

It opens with his one-movement piano concerto, written when he was newly arrived in New York and only nineteen years old. It was written at the request of Arthur Rubinstein but for some reason never orchestrated and never performed until the present piano soloist, Scott Dunn, orchestrated it and premiered it in 1998. Only eighteen minutes long, the concerto is both jazzy and modal, has memorable melodies, is expertly constructed, with clever development of its thematic elements, and is a complete delight from start to finish. Dunn not only makes a fine soloist, his orchestration is excellent.

The Cello Concerto came some twenty-odd years later and is a full-fledged three-movement (fast-slow-fast) work which shows influences of Shostakovich and Prokofiev, with a dollop of Stravinskyan rhythmic complexity thrown in. It is a hugely Romantic work regardless of those influences. I particularly like the finale, Allegro brioso, a march that sounds as if it could be something by Shostakovich in a sassy mood. It was premiered in 1947 by Gregor Piatigorsky and the Boston Symphony under Serge Koussevitsky. As far as I know it has languished since then. It is played with passion by cellist Sam Magill. Orchestral accompaniments in this and the piano concerto are by the excellent Russian Philharmonic Orchestra under its regular conductor (and himself a fine cellist) Dmitry Yablonsky.

The CD is rounded out by a suite for solo piano, 'Homage to Boston', written in 1945 and dedicated to members of the Boston Symphony. It has seven short movements with titles like 'Charles River', 'Boston Common', 'Dining at the Ritz', as well as movements written for various Boston friends. One particularly clever movement is 'Prokofieff in Louisburg Square', a gavotte which reminds one of Prokofieff's Classical Symphony.

I have learned a valuable lesson (again): don't judge the worth of a CD without actually listening to the music contained therein. If you give the music a chance you might find yourself delighted, as I was.

Recommended.

Scott Morrison
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