Piano Concertos, Vol. 2

Featuring

Pablo González
Florian Uhlig
Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern
Maurice Ravel
Germaine Tailleferre
Nadia Boulanger

Jean Françaix

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Critical Reception

Maurice Ravel was dissatisfied with the premiere of his Left Hand Concerto because the dedicatee, Paul Wittgenstein, had significant technical problems with his part.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Ravel aimed to create the illusion of two-handed piano playing in his Concerto for the Left Hand, despite it being written for a single hand.

Composer Biography

Nadia Boulanger, a composer and conductor, stopped composing around 1920 to focus on teaching, becoming famous for her courses attended by composers worldwide.

Composition History

Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand was commissioned by Paul Wittgenstein, a pianist who lost an arm in World War I.

Composer Biography

Paul Wittgenstein, who commissioned Ravel's left-hand concerto, also commissioned works from composers like Richard Strauss and Benjamin Britten, creating a new genre of left-hand concertos.

Performer Biography

Florian Uhlig, the pianist on this album, was appointed Professor of Piano at the Musikhochschule Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden in 2014 and is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in London.