Unsung Composers

The Music => Composers & Music => Topic started by: Wheesht on Sunday 14 June 2020, 19:07

Title: Dana Suesse – Concerto Romantico
Post by: Wheesht on Sunday 14 June 2020, 19:07
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 (https://youtu.be/CSPmXw5rfKs).
Title: Re: Dana Suesse – Concerto Romantico
Post by: semloh on Friday 19 June 2020, 08:56
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.
Title: Re: Dana Suesse – Concerto Romantico
Post by: Alan Howe on Friday 19 June 2020, 09:38
BTW her surname translated means 'Sweet'.  :)
Title: Re: Dana Suesse – Concerto Romantico
Post by: TerraEpon on Friday 19 June 2020, 13:19
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...
Title: Re: Dana Suesse – Concerto Romantico
Post by: MartinH on Sunday 21 June 2020, 19:10
I've played this concerto - the ever adventurous Warren Cohen did it with Musica Nova years ago. A lot of fun and so different.