Anderson labored over his sole extended
original orchestral work, a three-movement Piano Concerto in C, in the
first half of 1953. With Eugene List playing the solo
part, Anderson conducted the first performance in Chicago’s Grant Park on 18th July, 1953, and repeated
it in Cleveland the following July. Stung by the mixed
reviews in the press and dissatisfied with the first
movement, Anderson withdrew the piece, even omitting
mention of it in his 1970 list of compositions. Toward
the end of his life, however, he warmed to the concerto
again and talked of revising it, but never got around to
the task.
Eventually, Anderson’s widow Eleanor decided to
release the concerto as he left it - and since its revival in
1989, the piece has been receiving an increasing number
of performances, fulfilling a need for tuneful, audience-friendly, American-made piano concertos. The high
point is clearly the third movement’s second subject,
where Anderson strikes gold with a superb, entirely-in-character tune that can hold its own with virtually any
melody in any piano concerto.
(Naxos Music Library)
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Performers: Jeffrey Biegel (piano), BBC Concert Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
( • Video )
Sheet music: www.piano.ru/scores/anderson/a...
27 июн 2021
