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Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto - Foulds: Dynamic Triptych

9/1/2006, 6 Tracks, 56:57

Featuring

  • Vernon Handley
  • Howard Shelley
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • John Foulds

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Composer Biography

John Foulds, composer of the Dynamic Triptych, left England for France in 1927 and spent three years there, gaining a reputation as a leading accompanist for silent movies.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

John Foulds died of cholera in India in 1939, and his Dynamic Triptych was not performed again after a 1933 BBC broadcast until the sessions for this recording.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Ralph Vaughan Williams's Piano Concerto in C was premiered on February 1, 1933, by Harriet Cohen with Sir Adrian Boult and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Source: Booklet

Critical Reception

John Foulds's Dynamic Triptych was admired by figures like Sir Donald Tovey and Sir Dan Godfrey, with Havergal Brian calling it 'a major work by a composer of daring originality'.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

John Foulds's Dynamic Triptych was first performed in October 1931 by Sir Donald Tovey and the Reid Orchestra with pianist Frank Merrick.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

The 1946 version of Vaughan Williams's Piano Concerto for two pianos and orchestra, made by Joseph Cooper in collaboration with the composer, is now regretted by some as it endorsed early criticisms of the orchestral part being too massive.

Source: Booklet

Critical Reception

The original 1933 version of Vaughan Williams's Piano Concerto was admired by composers and critics like Frank Howes, Hubert Foss, Havergal Brian, and Béla Bartók.

Source: Booklet

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