Liebermann: Piano Concertos /Hough, Liebermann, BBC Scottish (Import) (CD)

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• Release Date: June 1, 1997
• Label: Hyperion
• UPC: 034571169668
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106528430
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Lowell Liebermann's 'Concerto for Piano no 2' was nominated for the 1998 Grammy Award for "Best Classical Contemporary Composition."

Composer Lowell Liebermann's disc of his piano concertos offers interesting material for those who enjoy contemporary music, and for the novice. His accessible (although by no means simplistic) compositional style and idiomatic writing for piano and orchestra are effectively used to create works of depth and beauty. His first piano concerto is in the standard three-movement form, with two fast movements separated by the second "Larghissimo" movement. While the entire concerto has a great sense of unity, each movement has a decidedly individual character. The final movement, subtitled "Maccaber Dance," is wildly inventive with elements from the first movement turned sideways and upside down. Liebermann's second concerto was written some time after his first, and demonstrates a later writing style. Lyrical, even romantic, but nonetheless heavily structured, it is a four-movement work that includes a rhythmically inventive scherzo "Presto" second movement. In addition to the two piano concertos on the disc, selections from Liebermann's 'Album for the Young' can be heard. Certainly the bewitching "Starry Night" and the lilting "Hommage a Alkan" stand out, and pianist Stephen Hough performs admirably throughout the entire recording, as does the composer, who conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

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