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Lowell Liebermann: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 etc.

9/15/2023, 13 Tracks, 55:36

Featuring

  • Stephen Hough
  • Lowell Liebermann
  • BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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Composition History

The Second Piano Concerto was commissioned by the Steinway Foundation and is dedicated to Stephen Hough, the pianist on this recording.

Source: Booklet

Performer Biography

Stephen Hough, the pianist on this recording, was awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship in 2001 for his achievements in music.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

The First Piano Concerto's third movement is titled 'Maccaber Dance' after a Scottish adventurer, Maccaber, who instituted a graveyard dance-procession in Paris during the plague.

Source: Booklet

Critical Reception

Liebermann's Second Piano Concerto was called 'perhaps the best piece in the genre since Samuel Barber's Concerto' by the Baltimore Sun.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

The First Piano Concerto uses the popular tune 'Fortune, my Foe' from the Anne Cromwell Virginal Book (1638) in all three movements.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Liebermann's music can be divided into two periods: an earlier period with contrapuntal angularity and atonal paths, and a later period guided more by harmonic significance and tonality.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Lowell Liebermann, born in New York City in 1961, is one of the most prolific and performed American composers of his generation.

Source: Booklet

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