Novak Piano Concerto at last!

[Martin Eastick]

Here at last is Novak's early but enjoyable piano concerto, which I know will be of interest to some of us here!https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/klavierkonzert-toman-and-the-wood-nymph/hnum/10257598

[Kevin]

Nice. I love his tone poems and his opera The Lantern. Glad his piano concerto is getting recorded.

Jakub Hrusa seems to be a hot conductor now, pops up a lot recently.

[Alan Howe]

At last indeed! Thanks, Martin. It's early and untypical - but gorgeous. Hyperion should've recorded this years ago.

[Gareth Vaughan]

The rumour at one time was that Hyperion was going to do it with Leslie Howard - but that clearly came to nothing. Never mind, we have it now.

[Christopher]

There is also a recording with Lory Wallfisch (piano), BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, under Jiří Stárek.

[Alan Howe]

But not a commercial one.

[pianoconcerto]

Christopher, the pianist in the earlier recording is Peter Wallfisch, not Lory.

[Alan Howe]

Lory was the wife of violist Ernst Wallfisch. They are not related to the pianist Peter Wallfisch (father of cellist, Raphael Wallfisch).

[Christopher]

Christopher, the pianist in the earlier recording is Peter Wallfisch, not Lory.

Thank you for this!

[UnsungMasterpieces]

As a Novák fan, I'm looking forward to this!

[redieze]

the Vitezslav Novak one(premiere rec.)is due to release by Supraphon, early in September !

[Ilja]

Hi, nice though it is that this concerto receives a recording, it is not the first one: see this thread from 2011.

[Alan Howe]

Well, this is evidently the work's first commercial recording (on CD).

More details of the new Supraphon release here:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8803877--novak-piano-concerto-toman-and-the-wood-nymph

Finally, would all contributors please check whether there is an existing thread on the same topic (hence this merged thread).

[Ilja]

I first heard the Novak concerto via the Skourmal recording on an LP that was released somewhere in the 1970s (if memory serves). Supraphon, probably.

[Alan Howe]

This must be the Supraphon recording issued on LP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX0MkuojWxU

František Rauch, piano
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Josef Hrnčíř, conductor