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Richard Pennycuick asked:
>Are there other left hand concertos of interest?
The Korngold Concerto in C-sharp (written in 1923 on commission from
Paul Wittgenstein) is IMO a masterpiece. Gary Graffman said this
about it:
To begin with, I find the concerto marvelously pianistic. It
explores so many possibilities of the instrument - those of
achieving different types of sonorities - and is wonderfully
constructed, formally. I find his bittersweet harmonies hauntingly
expressive. He achieves not just the effect of two hands, but
sometimes three or four! I agree with Harold Truscott in his
description of this work as a large symphony for piano and
orchestra. In fact, I'd go even further and say that the concerto
is almost operatic.*
*Quoted in Brendan G. Carroll's "The Last Prodigy," Amadeus
Press, Portland, Oregon, USA, 1997, p. 166)
Two recordings of the work I have and would recommend are Howard Shelley's
on Chandos CHAN 9508 and Steven de Groote's on cpo 999 046-2.
GeneH
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