Tippett - Piano Concerto, Symphony no.2
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MICHAEL TIPPETT
Tippett - Piano Concerto, Symphony no.2
Steven Osborne (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
[ LPO Live / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 29 November 2024
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LPO Principal Conductor Edward Gardner loves the music of Michael Tippett, he says, because of its 'otherworldly, luminous and elemental' qualities, which 'strike right from his inspiration to a listener's heart.'
In 2022 the LPO and Gardner released a landmark live recording of Tippett's opera The Midsummer Marriage, which won a Gramophone Award, and on this disc Gardner continues to shine a spotlight on this fascinating 20th-century composer. The exquisite filigree of the Piano Concerto is executed flawlessly by Steven Osborne, while the Second Symphony revels in the newfound clarity, intricate textures and formal rigour that would become the hallmarks of Tippett's later works.
"this completely symbiotic live account with Edward Gardner's LPO has both repose and electricity to surpass all others...More, much more please - an indispensable disc!" Gramophone
"The recorded balance between the piano and the orchestra is not always ideal...But otherwise the concerto teems with detail, and in the finale...the energy of the music is irrepressible, just as the pounding rhythms and intricately meshing string-writing of the Second Symphony (arguably the most coherent of Tippett's works in the form) are superbly delivered by Gardner and his orchestra." Guardian
Tracks:
Piano Concerto
Symphony no.2
