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Concerto

for piano and orchestra
piano and orchestra
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Written in Leeds for the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundaiton in the Library of Congress and dedicated to the memory of Serge and Natalie Koussevitzky, my concerto was the second work I wrote for Daniel Barenboim who gave its first performance in Brighton and London in 1972 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Laurence Foster.

Like the Symphony of three years earlier, the concerto is based on a melody, this time more classical in shape and opening with a fanfare, given to the oboe at the outset. But now the variation technique which was my principle means of creating large form in those years is combined with a look again at concerto-sonata form, with double exposition, extended development and recapitulation.

The Introduction to the second movement takes up an idea first stated by piano solo, just prior to the end of the first movement. Here is an attempt to combine slow movement and fugato fast music into one single structure which implies an hommage to its rather obvious Beethovenian model.

The small, rather classical orchestra in spirit substitutes trumpets and tuba for the more conventional horns. The choice of instruments was determined by a particular dense harmonic character which at the time seemed to me to be bright and sunlit.

Alexander Goehr

Orchestral Cast

2.2(2.ca).2(Ebcl,bcl).2(2.cbsn)-0.3.0.1-timp-str

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Title:
Concerto
for piano and orchestra
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1972
Opus:
op. 33
Duration:
32 ′
World Premiere:
May 14, 1972 · Brighton (UK)
Brighton Festival
Daniel Barenboim, piano · Conductor: Lawrence Foster · Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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Product number:
LSL 1835-01

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    Conductor: Christoph von Donhnayi
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    Conductor: Christoph von Donhnayi
    Orchestra: Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
    May 19, 1995 | Cleveland, OH (United States of America)
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    Conductor: Christoph von Donhnayi
    Orchestra: Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
    May 18, 1995 | Cleveland, OH (United States of America)
  • Concerto
    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra
    March 28, 1976 | London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Camden Park
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    Orchestra: Royal Philhamonic Orchestra
    May 15, 1972 | London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Royal Festival Hall
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