Britten: Piano Concerto, Op.13/Violin Concerto, Op.15

1. Piano Concerto in D major, Op. 13
Composed by Benjamin Britten
with English Chamber Orchestra , Joanna MacGregor , Lorraine McAslan
Conducted by Steuart Bedford

2. Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 15
Composed by Benjamin Britten
with English Chamber Orchestra , Joanna MacGregor , Lorraine McAslan
Conducted by Steuart Bedford

Britten: Piano Concerto, Op.13/Violin Concerto, Op.15,Benjamin Britten,Steuart Bedford,English Chamber Orchestra,Joanna MacGregor,Lorraine McAslan,Collins Classics,Classical,Classical Music,Concerto,Piano Concerto,Violin Concerto

Average customer rating: Excellent concerti so rarely played in concert... Perfection! Brilliant Concertos Terrific Older Performances to Rank With The Best

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Tracks:

1. I. Toccata - Sviatoslav Richter
2. II. Waltz - Sviatoslav Richter
3. III. Impromptu - Sviatoslav Richter
4. IV. March - Sviatoslav Richter
5. I. Moderato Con Moto - English Chamber Orchestra
6. II. Vivace - English Chamber Orchestra
7. III. Passacaglia: Andante Lento - English Chamber Orchestra

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Excellent concerti so rarely played in concert..........2007-03-25

I just listened to the LP of these performances. I just want to add that this is one of the best recorded Decca and it should have warranted a release in hybrid sacd to recapture that sound. Decca, please release SACDs or LPs!

Perfection!.......2006-09-02

These two early Britten Concerti are given the definitive performance by these artists!
Being conducted by the composer is a revalation.
My only regret is that Britten himself did not play the Piano Concerto - but how can you quibble with Richter's performance?
These are, no doubt two of the most importnat concerti of the 20th Century and receive a recording worthy of them, which does not betray it's age at all!

Buy this disc - you will not regret it!

Brilliant Concertos.......2005-08-09

Is there a more boisterous beginning to a concerto than the first bars of the Britten? The concerto sets a youthful mood from the start and never fails to be a refreshing piece of music. The concerto is cast in four movements beginning with a Toccata, followed by a Waltz, an Impromptu and finally a March. The arrangement is more like a suite than a concerto. The Impromptu is a passacaglia with a languorous Spanish-like melody, announced early in the movement. The soloist has a demanding job with the percussive effects in the March and the long cadenza-like passage of the Toccata. The concerto is magnificently played by Svastoslav Richter and the playing by the English Chamber Orchestra could not be more passionate.

The Violin Concerto similarly displays a mastery of the instrument and orchestra. The concerto begins with a brief orchestral introduction, with a drum motto, and the soloist enters with a beautiful, wistful melody that quickly becomes more assertive. The middle movement is a lively scherzo and leads directly into the passacaglia finale linked by a cadenza. The finale is bleak in tone but the tempi picks up until the music is triumphant and ends quietly with the same wistful atmosphere that the music began. Mark Lubotsky is marvelous in the concerto. His tone is absolutely soaring and he meets the technical demands of the work beautifully.

Even though Benjamin Britten was only in his mid-twenties, these concertos bear a maturity and sureness that were beyond his years. His recording of them is superb and belongs in the collection of anyone who loves instrumental concertos.

Terrific.......2005-05-16

Usually I'm put off by early works of most composers--Paul Hindemith's or Copland's for example. Not typical, stylistically vague, awkwardly trendy, sometimes downright incompetent. Makes ya worry a bit.

Britten got off to an amazing start (sort of) with his Frank Bridge Variations--one of those rare early works by a composer that's now a standard rep piece. If you haven't heard it do so--it's magical. Weirdly, it's more "Britten" than these two slightly later concertos. Still these are strong and enjoyable works, stronger and more enjoyable than many by much more mature composers of his time. The Britten (what is it?) melancholy, creepiness, I'm never sure how to define it and it's so uniquely his, is there and what it does, curiously, is give a tinge of acceptable irony to the parts of these pieces that seem mildly derivative. It seems like everyone back then couldn't avoid Prokofiev when writing for piano. That these have been on the back burner for a while is more an indication of the serious under-appreciation we currently have of Britten as a composer. Shostakovich admired him deeply and that should tell us something right away. It's a little known fact but Dmitri was possibly the greatest judge of compositional talent that ever breathed.

I love the recording quality on these and the soloists are untouchable, especially Richter on the piano concerto.

Older Performances to Rank With The Best.......2005-01-20

These recordings were the first that I heard of these works, on a London LP from the Fargo Public Library. I took to the Piano Concerto right away, with it's heavy Prokofievian influences. The violin concerto was a harder nut to crack, especially since I was only about 12 when I got the record. It was hard to find in record stores because it was not in print here for very long. I took the compact disc era to bring these works to light. The only comparison I have for the piano concerto is Joanna MacGreagor on Collins Classics (now out of print-how about it Naxos?) which has the original version of the 3rd movement. The violin concerto now has many excellent recordings-Lydia Mordkovich on Chandos, Rebecca Hirsch on Naxos, and Maxim Vengerov on EMI/Angel (which I own). The piano concerto is the more splashier of the two concertos. It is very brilliant and sometimes not really deep. But when one listens to it more in depth, one can find many Brittenisms along the way. Being an early work, one should understand that he would be influenced by many different composers, as well as musical styles! My favorite movement bar none is the "Impromptu" which has one of Britten's most fetching melodies which is treated in Passacaglia style (and also glorified in William Walton's orchestral piece "Impromptu on a Theme of Britten".) The other movements include a Toccata, Waltz and March, with a wild cadenza for Percussion and Piano. The violin concerto touches on a deeper vein of feeling and may be one of Britten's most touching works. The violin part is especially tricky-the most notorious part is in the second (scherzo) movement where the violinist is playing triple stops in artificial harmonics. Most violinists have to slow the speed down here because of the terrible difficulty in executing this passage. Mark Lubotsky has to do that here, and I think only Vengerov keeps playing this passage in tempo. Both Russian violinists put plenty of feeling and pathos into their renditions. The ending of the work still is fascinating to me: we don't know whether the end is in D major or D minor, and the violinist does not help-under a supporting chord of D-A-D (no f# or f natural) our soloist trills from a A to B flat and then from F sharp to F natural and fades away to nothing. So we are left to our own devices. To me this is not a happy ending, but a deeply tragic and moving one. Britten and the ECO have a wonderful time and play exquisitely. The sound is very full and brilliant, especially the bass drum! LP's just could not bring bass drum thwacks out this clearly! Again, these are classic performances which you should scarf up if you have the opportunity.

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1. Morning Mood - San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
2. Waltz - Sir Neville Marriner
3. Pavane, Op.50 - Chorus Of The Academy Of St Martin-In-The-Fields
4. Air - Thurston Dart
5. Finale (The Dargason) - Christopher Hogwood
6. Prelude - Detroit Symphony Orchestra
7. Sicilienne - Sir Neville Marriner
8. Sleepers, Awake - The New Symphony Orchestra Of London
9. En Bateau - Ernest Ansermet
10. Anitra's Dance - San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
11. Sunday Morning By The Beach - Sir Colin Davis
12. March: Seventeen Come Sunday - Sir Neville Marriner
13. Morning Newspapers, Op.279 - Vienna Philharmonic

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1. Canon In D - Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
2. Largo - Regis Pasquier
3. Adagio/Allegro/Adagio - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
4. Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring - Julian Lloyd Webber
5. Badinerie - Jean-Pierre Rampal
6. Air - Sir Neville Marriner
7. Rondeau - John Eliot Gardiner
8. Largo - Celin Romero
9. Adagio - Heinz Holliger
10. Adagio - Alfred Prinz
11. Cantabile - Aurele Nicolet
12. Menuetto - Sir Neville Marriner
13. Prelude - Mischa Maisky
14. Andane Sostenuto - Arthur Grumiaux
15. Menuetto (2nd) - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
16. The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba - Paul McCreesh

Tracks:

1. Rondo - Sir Neville Marriner
2. Gavotte En Rondeau - Goran Sollscher
3. Allegro Assai - Andre Bernard
4. Scherzo (Allegro Vivace) - James Levine
5. Allegro Con Spirito - Narciso Yepes
6. Waltz - Sir Neville Marriner
7. Air (Andante Religioso) - Stephen Shingles
8. Dance Of The Blessed Spirits - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
9. Pieds-En-L'air - Nicholas Kraemer
10. Nessun Dorma - Barry Wordsworth
11. Entr'acte - Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
12. Allegro Vivace - Lorin Maazel

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1. Variation 18 - Jean-Yves Thibaudet
2. Traumerei - Mischa Maisky
3. Adagio Non Troppo - Irena Grafenauer
4. Gavotte - Mischa Maisky
5. Romanza (Andante) - Peter Damm
6. Dome Epais Le Jasmin (Flower Duet) - Joan Sutherland
7. Moment Musical No.3 In F Minor, D 780 Op.94 - London Symphony Orchestra
8. Andante - Vienna Philharmonic
9. Menuet - The English Concert
10. Violin Romance No.2 In F, Op.50 - David Oistrakh
11. Adagio - Narciso Yepes
12. La Calinda - Sir Neville Marriner
13. Love Theme - Vienna Philharmonic

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B00005YKWJ Release Date: 2000-07-10

Average customer rating: Magnificent !

Britten: Piano Concerto, Op.13/Violin Concerto, Op.15 Manufacturer: Collins Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Britten | Britten, Sir Benjamin | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000003VWP Release Date: 1993-08-24

Customer Reviews:

Magnificent !.......1999-07-13

Tremendous intensity and insight!

However, Collins pulled this great disc from their line. BUMMER! Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Average customer rating: Educational. Not entertaining.

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Educational. Not entertaining........2001-01-11

Thinking the 100 tracks this four volume set has to offer would be a relaxing in the car, or underscored during work time, I found the compilation of various composers to be rather jarring. Each CD contains 25 tracks of different movements from 6 to 8 artists, which don't follow any pleasing through line. If you are interested in learning just who composed which famous piece, or if you need to have on hand the top 100 classical pieces (according to whom? I don't know), then this may be right for you. If you are looking for leisure then I suggest you find something that actually completes a symphony.

Average customer rating:

Britten: Piano Concerto, Op.13/Violin Concerto, Op.15 Manufacturer: Collins ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Britten | Britten, Sir Benjamin | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000268BQ Release Date: 1991-01-01

Track Listings:

1. Bruckner: Mass No2, WAB27; Locus iste WAB23
2. BRUCKNER : Symphony No. 7 In E Major - Carl Schuricht / Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester
3. Brumel: Missa; Josquin Desprez: Berzerette savoyenne
4. Cathedral Brass - Sacred works for Brass by Gabrieli, Bach and Clarke
5. Cello Suites 1,3 & ,5
6. Cello Suites 2,4 & ,6
7. Concert Bandstand [Live]
8. Concerto for Piano & Orchestra
9. Cristóbal de Morales: Missa Mille Regretz and Motets
10. Debussy: Préludes; Suite bergamasque; Pour le piano

Track Listings

track listings

Track Listings

Cricklewood Green

Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 78 & 102

Heavenly Keys - Gospel Keyboard Trio

Music: Wha'ppen? [Extra tracks]

Keys to Ascension V.1 [Import]

Greatest Song Book [Import]

In the Shade of the Saguaro

Libuse (Comp)

In Care of the Blues

Gotcha

Heroes [Gold CD]

La Bamba [Soundtrack]

I Want More Pt. 1 [Import]

Classical Healing

Chase