Gonzalo Curiel Piano Concertos

[Febct]

The Toccata "pipeline" shows three piano concertos of Gonzalo Curiel (1904-1958).  To me, an unknown entity - but from a small clip of his first PC the sound is lushly romantic.  I don't know if this carries throughout, but I'll wait for Toccata to put up some samples once the CD is on the books.

[eschiss1]

Curiel's whole first two piano concertos are uploaded to Youtube as of 7-odd years ago (and a second? recording of the 2nd was uploaded 3 years ago?) so perhaps it is not entirely necessary to wait to make a judgment of the work, though yes to this particular recording, unless this is a reissue of the Orquesta Sinfónica de San Luis Potosí performance* (from the orchestra's own page) of no.2, say. (The opening pages of no.2 sound early-20th-century Romantic - Rachmaninoffish? in a way. Nice. - in my opinion.)

*"Este concierto se grabó el 14 de marzo de 2015 en el Palacio de Bellas Artes de la Ciudad de México."

[Febct]

Curiel's whole first two piano concertos are uploaded to Youtube as of 7-odd years ago (and a second? recording of the 2nd was uploaded 3 years ago?) so perhaps it is not entirely necessary to wait to make a judgment of the work, though yes to this particular recording, unless this is a reissue of the Orquesta Sinfónica de San Luis Potosí performance* (from the orchestra's own page) of no.2, say. (The opening pages of no.2 sound early-20th-century Romantic - Rachmaninoffish? in a way. Nice. - in my opinion.)

*"Este concierto se grabó el 14 de marzo de 2015 en el Palacio de Bellas Artes de la Ciudad de México."

Thank you.  This is a CD I'm waiting for, then.  Very appealing - very "nice," as you write.

[eschiss1]

With apologies for the digression, according to Wikipedia the concertos are from 1948 (No.1 in D-flat), 1950 (no.2 in D minor), and no.3 (unfinished, in one movement, premiered in 1967 a decade after his death. According to YouTube that one's in E-flat major and lasts 10 minutes? and does sound a bit more - early-20th-century/dissonant (Prokofiev-style, not Luigi Nono!)).

[Alan Howe]

No problem, Eric. As you see, I've created a new thread on Curiel's Piano Concertos as there seemed to be a lot of interest in them.

[pianoconcerto]

Unfortunately, the Curiel piano concerto CD has been in Toccata's pipeline for years, as evidenced by its low catalog number (0338).  That's some 370 discs before the latest listing in the pipeline.  Maybe Martin Anderson can let us know whether this will ever be released and, if so, when.

[pianoconcerto]

Looks like Toccata Classics will not be releasing the CD of the 3 Curiel piano concertos.  It was listed as 0338 in the TC pipeline for years, but has now been deleted.  Rodolfo Ritter, the piano soloist, also has told me that TC is not releasing it.