Grieg & Delius: Piano Concertos

Featuring

Jan Latham-Koenig
Mark Bebbington
Irene Loh
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Edvard Grieg
Frederick Delius

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Compositional Technique

Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor is the first piano concerto ever written to end slowly, a unique formal device.

Performer Biography

Mark Bebbington, the pianist on this recording, has received nine consecutive five-star reviews in BBC Music magazine for his cycles of Frank Bridge, John Ireland, and Vaughan Williams.

Performer Biography

Jan Latham-Koenig, the conductor, is the first British-born conductor to hold a Music Directorship with a Russian opera company, and he received Russia's Golden Mask conductor's award in 2014.

Composition History

Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16, one of the most popular piano concertos ever written, was begun in the summer of 1868 when Grieg was on holiday in Zealand.

Recording & Production

This album features the premiere recordings of sketches for Grieg's Piano Concerto No. 2 in B minor, arranged and orchestrated by Robert Matthew-Walker.

Compositional Technique

Delius's Piano Concerto in C minor is a single, large-scale composition in three parts, unified by the reprise of initial material and a central section in D-flat major, making it the largest truly single-movement piano concerto written up to its time.