French Piano Concertos
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Composer: Francois-Adrien BoieldieuComposer: Cecile Chaminade
Composer: Jean Francaix
Composer: Edouard Lalo
Composer: Jules Massenet
Composer: Gabriel Pierne
Composer: Albert Roussel
Conductor: Alois Springer
Conductor: Jean Fran?aix
Conductor: Louis de Froment
Conductor: Matthias Kuntzsch
Conductor: Robert Wagner
Conductor: Siegfried Landau
Orchestra: Hamburg Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra: Innsbruck Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra: Luxembourg Radio Orchestra
Orchestra: Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra: Westphalian Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra: Recklinghausen Westphalian Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Claude Paillard-Francaix
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1994-08-22
Music Label: Vox (Classical)
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Allegro
- Pastorale con variazioni
- Andante moderato
- Largo
- Airs slovaques, Allegro
- Allegro
- Scherzando
- Final
- Lento; Allegro
- Lento
- Allegro
- Allegro molto
- Adagio
- Allegro con spirito
- Without Title
- Andante
- Without Title
- Allegro
Music reviews of French Piano Concertos
Music Review: The Lalo piano concerto
Rating: 4 Stars
I ordered this CD set based on the samples, and expected to most enjoy the Pierne concerto. However, I found the Pierne, and most of the material here, fairly uninspired. The real highlight turned out to be the piano concerto by Edouard Lalo.
Lalo is best known for his Symphonie Espagnole violin concerto. I have subsequently also heard his cello concerto, his symphony, and miscellaneous orchestral pieces. They all struck me as competent but forgettable. Not, however, this piano concerto. It struck me as being an "old man's concerto" - a sense of experience and perspective, even nostalgia, and mildly eccentric but without undue exertion. It is cyclical in form, i.e. there is a central theme that recurs in all movements, and the influence of Saint-Saen's concertos predominates, particularly in lightness of orchestration, but also in elegance of melody and feeling. Unfortunately, inspiration seems to become more diffuse in the final movement. Nonetheless, this concerto rightly belongs in the repertoire, and I hope that some musician of capability will decide to champion it in the concert hall and on record.
There is only one other recording of this concerto available (David Gross with the Staatsorchester Frankfurt (Oder), and Nikos Athinaos conducting, on Signum). It is quite good, and has the advantage of better sound than these old Vox recordings, but I find the soloist overly mannered and too delicate. Marylene Dosse plays with more strength and vigour, matched by the Stuttgart orchestra under Kuntzsch, and the performance sounds convincingly grand. You can alleviate the poor sound somewhat by tweaking the EQ (in particular, turn down the treble). Until more alternatives are available, this is the recording to own, and if you love piano concertos then own it you should!
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