RPC? Dvorak

[Rob H]

Ok not an unsung composer but I see that Stephen Hough has recorded the Dvorak Concerto for Hyperion. It doesn't say if this is for the RPC series but if it is does anyone know what the coupling is likely to be?
There's the Novak - lovely piece that I only know from an old radio broadcast. I can think of other Czech piano concertos (Navratil and Novacek come to mind) but I can't think what Stephen would play nowadays. Of course it may not be in the series in which case there could be any coupling.
Rob

[Alan Howe]

According to this the coupling will be the Schumann (yawn!):
http://www.harrisonparrott.com/artist/profile/stephen-hough

[Rob H]

Thanks for the info. Oh well, thought it was too much to hope for.

[Gareth Vaughan]

That really is a pity. I'm sure Stephen Hough will play both admirably and probably bring some insights to the concerti, but Mike Spring was, at one time, talking of coupling the Dvorak with the Novak which would have been much more interesting.

[Rob H]

Yes, I waited a while for that coupling after seeing on Leslie Howard's website that he was recording the two. That must have been 10 years ago or so.
I hope someone does record the Novak with a decent Czech coupling - it's a beautiful work,
Rob

[sdtom]

As far as Dvorak is concerned hanssler classic has just released a nice unsung work his Symphony No. 1 in C minor which is quite good. The Deutsche Radio Philharmonia is conducted by Karel Mark Chichon. The filler piece is his Rhapsody, op. 14.
Tom

[TerraEpon]

That's disappointing. Especially after the fantastic choice of couplings his friend Steven Isserlis did with the cello concerto. Now granted there's no other Dvorak Piano and Orchestra works that even exist but....

[FBerwald]

Most likely not in the RPC series. If so it will most definitely be the most disappointing and lowest selling vol.!   

[Alan Howe]

On the other hand, if the Dvorak's particularly well done, it may attract those who don't know it...

[FBerwald]

Actually I have no issue with Dvorak being included in the RPC. It's the Schumann Coupling that I cant accept.  I mean how many versions of this beautiful but overplayed concerto are out there?

[Alan Howe]

Unnumbered.

[Rob H]

Likewise I would have been very happy to see the Dvorak in the series but as I said, coupled with some Czech juicy concerto-ness. Much as I admire Hough's playing I will not be buying yet another Schumann no matter how fine a work it is.

While we're on the subject does anyone know what, if anything, is upcoming in the RPC series other than the Rozycki Concertos and Ballade (yaaayyy!)?
Rob

[thalbergmad]

What a waste of a disk.

Thal

[eschiss1]

Unlike Thal, I'd have been interested in a reconstruction of Schumann's earliest efforts at a concertante piano-orchestra work (the 1829 draft for piano concerto in F, so far as it survives, if sufficient for reconstruction; not at all the same as the first movement of the piano concerto in A minor. According to Daverio there's also, recently published, a nearly-finished 1839 first movement by Schumann of a D minor piano concerto. I wouldn't mind hearing that, if a performable version has been prepared. Those are worthy of Hyperion! But no, no, not this, I agree, or at least those two should have been included, please (if possible) along with the now fortunately usual Concertstücke Opp.92, 134, and the piano concerto.

Did Schunke write a concerto, btw? I forget...

[eschiss1]

A good coupling for the Dvorak could have been Novák's early piano concerto, which I believe has yet to be commercially recorded (one can hear a few versions on YouTube, though). Just a suggestion. Maybe with something by one of Dvorak's teachers; teacher/Dvorak/pupil...