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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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