Dohnányi: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

Too rarely heard concertos: way-out stuff at times, mixing grand virtuosity, as befitted Liszt’s fellow countryman, with immense melodic generosity. And for Shelley, it’s an utterly jaw-dropping tour de force. Jessica Duchen


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Jessica Duchen

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:32 pm

COMPOSERS: Dohnanyi
LABELS: Chandos
WORKS: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
PERFORMER: Howard Shelley (piano); BBC Philharmonic/Mathias Bamert
CATALOGUE NO: CHAN 10599 X

Too rarely heard concertos: way-out stuff at times, mixing grand virtuosity, as befitted Liszt’s fellow countryman, with immense melodic generosity. And for Shelley, it’s an utterly jaw-dropping tour de force. Jessica Duchen

Jessica Duchen

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Jessica Duchen studied music at Cambridge University and was the classical music correspondent for The Independent from 2004 to 2016. She has also written for The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Times, BBC Music Magazine and the JC, among others. Jessica Duchen has written librettos include numerous choral works and operas for the composer Roxanna Panufnik, including Silver Birch, commissioned by Garsington Opera and shortlisted for an International Opera Award in 2018. Two more works based on stories by Oscar Wilde were commissioned for Garsington’s Youth Company, The Happy Princess with composer Paul Fincham (2019) and The Selfish Giant with John Barber, which fell victim to lockdown, this has been postponed to 2021.
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