Catoire PC, Piano Quartet & Piano Quintet

[brendangcarroll]

A new CD featuring this work together with chamber works, was previewed on Record Review on BBC Radio 3 yesterday morning.

This is the link for the dsc:-

http://capriccio.at/georgi-catoire

The Piano Quartet in A minor, which was excerpted, was immensely attractive and a discovery for me. Does anyone know what the piano concerto is like? On the strength of the quartet, I am tempted to buy this disc.

[eschiss1]

There's videos of the concerto on YouTube, and it also may be available on Spotify and whathaveyou?

[Alan Howe]

Please see this newly created thread on Catoire's Mtsyri:
http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,8153.msg85318.html#new

[Alan Howe]

Well, the performance of the PC is pretty breathtaking. Triendl is by turns heroic and sensitive and he has the benefit of the full-sized Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin) with its tremendous weight in tutti passages to accompany him. This is absolutely stupendous.

[semloh]

How does the concerto here compare to the recording on Dutton, I wonder?

[Alan Howe]

I haven't done that yet, but I believe the Dutton's a good deal slower.