Dana Suesse – Concerto Romantico

[Wheesht]

Nicknamed "The Girl Gershwin" by The New Yorker, Dana Suesse was successful as a writer of popular songs, e.g. The Night Is Young And You're So Beautiful, but she also wrote serious works, one of them entitled Concerto Romantico. There is a historic recording on Youtube with herself as the soloist.

[semloh]

I've had several of the works for piano & orchestra tucked away in my files for a few years now, and I think they're great fun.

[Alan Howe]

BTW her surname translated means 'Sweet'. 

[TerraEpon]

I love Suesse and wish her work was a bit more well recorded. There's a different piece for piano and orchestra that's on this one Naxos disc that has just ABYSMAL sound quality,  IIRC.

That said, she was called 'The Girl Gershwin' for a reason, as her music is very much similar, with blue notes and all that jazz (pun intended). Not quite sure it fits here...

[MartinH]

I've played this concerto - the ever adventurous Warren Cohen did it with Musica Nova years ago. A lot of fun and so different.