Hans Gál - Piano Concerto in C major op. 57

[BerlinExpat]

Hans Gál - Piano Concerto in C major op. 57 will be broadcast on Thursday February 5th on Deutschlandradio Kultur in a concert beginning at 20:03 (CET).

Harmut Hudezeck, piano
Philharmonisches Orchester Altenburg-Gera
Laurent Wagner, conductor

Before and after the Gál are Haydn's Sinfonie No. 8 and Beethoven's Eroica.

[Mark Thomas]

Thanks very much for making the recording available, Colin.

[JimL]

Can you get the movement tempos?

[jerfilm]

Yes, many thanks

Jerry

[BerlinExpat]

I've tried to find the movement tempos, but failed. They weren't given in the broadcast and Boosey & Hawkes don't reveal them on their homepage.

[musiclover]

I would love to see a score of this. Does anyone know who publishes it? Boosey only lists an early Concertino for piano and strings op.4

[matesic]

From the Hans Gal Society's web site; Allegro energico ma non troppo, Adagio, Allegretto vivace. Published by Breitkopf & Härtel 1948, first performed by the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra March 1949. Unfortunately they don't name the pianist or conductor.

[eschiss1]

Looked for further info at the B&H website, but their page is SNAFUd. A cache of one of the relevant pages does give the instrumentation as

Klav – 2(Picc).2.2.2. – 2.2.1.0. – Pk – Str
and the most recent performance that they know of, as of now, at January 14, 2015.
Am guessing Charles Groves was the conductor, from a contemporary publication that mentions, if I read correctly, that he premiered Gál's cello concerto a bit later with the same orchestra, I think.

[JimL]

Thank you matesic!  You can edit them into the post, BerlinExpat.

[Alan Howe]

you can edit them into the post

Done!