Martin Anderson makes one of his rare dockings here.  [You only come
'round, mate, when you want something].  He writes: [...]

>A pianist friend of mine has been engaged to perform a concerto in a
>concert in which the sole unifying link is the sea.  I have suggested all
>manner of sea pieces to open and close the concert.  You will have your
>own ideas, which are welcome; we'd be especially grateful for "sea" piano
>concertos.

Only one such work comes to mind which is directly linked with a "sea"
theme...Alan Dudley Bush: Variations, Nocturne, and Finale on an Old
English Sea-Songs, op. 60.

There's a recording, not very good, by pianist David Wilde with the RPO
conducted by John Snashall [Pye stereo LP]

Otherwise, the links are tenuous and the results unattractive.  Albert
Roussel, who had a merchant marine career, wrote a crabby little piano
concerto late in his career, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, a naval cadet in
his youth, wrote a surpassingly ghastly one which I presume was a youthful
folly.  If not specifically marine, it could certainly be characterized as
wet.  I leave other, non-concertante works to the scant handful of genuine
repertoire-mavens on this list.

John Wiser
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