Constant Lambert - Concerto for piano and nine instruments (1931)

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Concerto for piano and nine instruments (1931)
1. Ouvertüre (Allegro - Cadenza - Andante espressivo - Coda) [0:00]
2. Intermède (Andante recitando - Allegro scherzando - Andante tranquillo - Allegretto non troppo) [8:15]
3. Finale (Lugubre - Lento) [17:52]
A work by British composer and conductor Constant Lambert (1901-1950) bearing the influence of jazz and blues music and French neoclassicism. A child prodigy who began composing orchestral music at age 13, Lambert was taught by such figures as Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Dyson, Malcolm Sargent and Herbert Fryer. His breakthrough came at age 20 with a commission from Serge Diaghilev for the Ballet Russes, a ballet based on Romeo and Juliet. This piano concerto was completed in 1931.
Pianist: Alessandro De Curtis
Conductor: Giuseppe Grazioli
Harmonia Ensemble

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@themise1416 10 жыл бұрын

Beautiful. Such a rich, layered piece Great performance. Thanks for posting.

@limesquared 10 жыл бұрын

Beautiful! I love the modern twist...

@easyaspi1177 9 жыл бұрын

I never heard of this piece by Lambert! Thanks for posting. I got a book about the three Lamberts and tried to give it away. It just sat there. So I took it back. Glad I did. What a bunch of interesting screwballs. :)

@esmeephillips5888 4 жыл бұрын

The section about Constant in that book by Andrew Motion is almost entirely lifted from Richard Shead's pioneering biography.

@peterlunow 10 жыл бұрын

delicious piece of music

@giuseppedimarco8358 6 жыл бұрын

Wonderful!

@rogermaes6001 3 жыл бұрын

Quel bon choix cette toile de Fernand Léger, figuratif et cubiste, moderne et festif, comme cette musique, d'aujourd'hui comme d'hier !

@ClassicalSaxChannel 8 жыл бұрын

I had the absolute pleasure of performing this wonderful piece a few years ago at the Maverick Festival in Woodstock, NY. Such fun!!!

@elizabethsweet3692 3 жыл бұрын

ClassicalSaxProject any chance you have the score? I am researching this work atm and cannot get my hands on the score

@javieroviedo6928 3 жыл бұрын

Elizabeth Sweet I’ll see if I still have that score. I “copied” it from the University Library. I’ll let you know.

@elizabethsweet3692 3 жыл бұрын

ClassicalSaxProject you’d be a lifesaver if you do have it!

@javieroviedo6928 3 жыл бұрын

Elizabeth Sweet I’ll do my best to locate it.

@esmeephillips5888 Жыл бұрын

24:11, the moment when it all comes together.

@christopherhosford7805 7 жыл бұрын

A wonderful musician, and let's not forget: As per Daneman's biography of Margot Fonteyn, he was her lover. Lucky duck!

@esmeephillips5888 4 жыл бұрын

When Fonteyn published her autobiography she cut him out, yet at any time after he separated from Flo Kaye she would have married him in a heartbeat. Michael Somes in 'Horoscope' was united with Fonteyn's character, but life never copied art. Instead she saddled herself with Arias, poor thing.

@harryandruschak2843 6 жыл бұрын

"Like" on 18 September 2017

@stripedman201 11 жыл бұрын

This sounds too American to be British, and too French to be American. This is genius.

@jdoggtn7 6 жыл бұрын

Lambert was living in Marseilles when he wrote it. The work is a memorial to Peter Warlock AKA Philip Heseltine, a composer and good friend of Lambert's who had recently died. Quotes from Warlock works are embedded in the material.

@9827george 2 жыл бұрын

@@jdoggtn7 interesting, because I can hear the style of Darius Milhaud absorbed in some way here.

@jdoggtn7 2 жыл бұрын

@@9827george Lambert was always very Francophile, as was the young Walton (that later disappeared) and the early Arthur Bliss as well. But while Walton and Bliss excised continental influence from their work and settled into a fairly typical pastorale Britishness, the French vein stayed with Lambert throughout his career. As Lambert was a conductor, he was undoubtedly familiar with Darius Milhaud. But Lambert's work, although jazzy, never makes use of dissonance or polytonality in the way Milhaud did.