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AV 0014

The World's First Piano Concertos

The Classical Shop
release date: April 2007

Originally recorded in 2007

Artists:

Joseph Crouch

cello

David Owen Norris

piano

Monica Huggett

violin

Emilia Benjamin

violin

Sonnerie



Venue:

The Music Room at Hatchlands, Surry, England



Producer:

Simon Weir


Simon Foster

(Executive)

Engineer:

Campbell Hughes


Morgan Roberts



Record Label
Avie Records

Genre:

Piano


Chamber

Total Time - 79:12
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JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH

(1735-1782)
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Concerto in E flat, Op. 7 No. 5 (1770)

16:04  
1 Allegro di molto 6:37
2 Andante 6:22
3 Allegro 3:05
   
 

CARL FRIEDRICH ABEL

(1723-1787)
 

Concerto in B flat, Op. 11 No. 2 (1774)

8:17  
4 Allegro 4:41
5 Rondeau: Allegro 3:36
   
 

JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH

 

Concerto in G, Op. 7 No. 6 (1770)

13:40  
6 Allegro 5:48
7 Andante 5:13
8 Allegretto 2:39
   
 

Concerto in D K107 (1772) [from Sonata, Op. 5 No. 3 (1766)]

14:00  
9 Allegro 5:21
10 Andante 4:38
11 Tempo di Menuetto 4:01
   
 

PHILIP HAYES

(1738-1797)
 

Concerto in A major (1769) [The World's First]

11:20  
12 Allegro 4:44
13 Grazioso 2:57
14 Minuetto con variazoni 3:39
   
 

JAMES HOOK

(1746-1827)
 

Concerto in D, [Op. 1] No. 5 (1770_

15:51  
15 Allegro con spirito 7:06
16 Andante 3:48
17 Rondo: Allegro 4:57


Extensive research by internationally renowned pianist David Owen Norris about a peculiar, tiny square piano that dominated the European keyboard market for about 15 years in the late 18th century, led to his discovery of works written specially for the instrument which constitute The World’s First Piano Concertos.

The square piano was the brainchild of a German instrument maker name Zumpe who moved to London in 1761, a time that found composers such as J C Bach and C F Abel thriving in the cosmopolitan English city, and when a precocious Mozart met the former during an early tour there. Inspired by Zumpe’s revolutionary invention, these and other leading composers of the day eagerly wrote a number of virtuoso works that, accompanied by a small string ensemble which would not overpower the instrument’s delicate sound, allowed the keyboard soloist to truly shine. Thus, the Piano Concerto was born in London around 1770. These works, neglected since the demise of the square piano, are here brought together with an equally neglected instrument for the first time on CD.


" ...The sound and the playing live up to ones expectations. ...For me this is practical musicology at its best, at once enjoyable and enlightening...."

Lewis Foreman
 

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