Rota: Two Piano Concertos

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Many years ago, the famous Hoffnung Festival classical music comedy series offered a "Concerto Popolare," a piano concerto movement made up entirely of recognizable themes from famous piano concertos. Rota's Piano Concertos, two of which receive their premiere recordings here, are less amusing because the themes aren't familiar, but the styles certainly are: Rachmaninov here, Grieg there, a large dash of Ravel, and so on. The performances sound entirely competent, as though the performers actually thought this was important music. But it's just the same kind of stuff Rota churned out for his famous movie scores, only less useful. --Leslie Gerber

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Rota: Two Piano Concertos
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • light, beautiful, recreational
 Rota: Two Piano Concertos

Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000DBQS
Release Date: 1998-10-20

Tracks:

  1. Piano Concerto in E Minor: I Allegro tranquillo
  2. Piano Concerto in E Minor: II Andante sostenuto
  3. Piano Concerto in E Minor: III Allegro
  4. Piano Concerto In C Major: I Allegro cantabile
  5. Piano Concerto In C Major: II Arietta con variazioni
  6. Piano Concerto In C Major: III Allegro

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Many years ago, the famous Hoffnung Festival classical music comedy series offered a "Concerto Popolare," a piano concerto movement made up entirely of recognizable themes from famous piano concertos. Rota's Piano Concertos, two of which receive their premiere recordings here, are less amusing because the themes aren't familiar, but the styles certainly are: Rachmaninov here, Grieg there, a large dash of Ravel, and so on. The performances sound entirely competent, as though the performers actually thought this was important music. But it's just the same kind of stuff Rota churned out for his famous movie scores, only less useful. --Leslie Gerber

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars light, beautiful, recreational.......2005-04-23

shamefully I haven't watched Godfather or 8 1/2 and totally forgot the music of La Strada when I encountered this disc via Internet. And before that I'd never heard of Nino Rota. But this is beautiful music enjoyable and definitely accessible.
Rota is a film composer, which means his music, even that not written for movies, is easily evocative of scenes and emotions. These two piano concertos are also of such quality. They're light -- there're rarely fortissimos, orchestration is not dense either; they're beautiful -- full of simple yet lovely melodies; they're recreational -- inflicting no mental burden as Brahms or Rachmaninov or even Chopin does. You just sit there enjoying it, with or without various kinds of colors and images passing before your eyes. That's all.
Concerto No.1 is larger and structurally more complicated, also more romantic, more dreamy; while No.2 is shorter, wittier and livelier

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