Par PROKOFIEV SERGEI. Interestingly there are two different versions of Prokofiev’s second piano concerto, the first written between 1912 and 1913, the second written in 1923. However, during the Russian Civil War, the original manuscript of the Concerto was destroyed in a fire in Prokofiev’s apartment in St. Petersburg. In 1923 he recreated the score from memory, effectively composing the second edition of the work, which was very different. Prokofiev wrote to a friend: I have so completely rewritten the second concerto that it might be considered the fourth (his third piano concerto having been written in the meantime). At the time of composition, the concerto's wild temperamentleft some exalted, whereas others were horrified by the jarring and at the time futuristic sound. Today, however, it is generally recognised as a masterpiece and is one of the most virtuosic works in the piano concerto repertoire. Available here is the Hawkes Pocket Score edition (No. 877) of Prokoviev’s virtuosic Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Op. 16, and is ideal for study and perusal usage. / Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 877 / Répertoire / Piano et Orchestre

Par TIPPETT MICHAEL SIR. Tippett and rsquo -s Concerto pour Piano - écrit entre 1953 et 1955 - peut être considéré comme un commentaire du milieu du XXe siècle sur et une réaction contre les types ancien concerto héroïque et percussion. Son inspiration initiale est venue lorsque Tippett entendu Gieseking répéter le premier mouvement de Beethoven and rsquo -s quatrième Concerto de Piano pour un concert en 1950. Tippett écrivit plus tard de la genèse de son propre concerto: and lsquo-sous l'influence d'une performance exceptionnellement poétique pourtant classique du mouvement de Beethoven, je me retrouvais persuadé qu'un concerto contemporain pourrait être écrit, dans lequel le piano est utilisé une fois de plus pour ses capacités poétiques. and rsquo - hormis les influences de jeu self-acknowledged, la principale influence sur le langage musical du concerto, comme le reconnaît Tippett lui-même, a son propre opéra The Midsummer Marriage, où il venait de terminer. Comme le compositeur lui-même des commentaires sur son concerto, and lsquo-la musique est riche, linéaire et lyrique, comme dans cet opéra. and rsquo -/ Répertoire / Piano et Orchestre

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Bach's mastery of rhythm and harmony, inventiveness, and genius for composition produced some of the richest and most beautiful music of all time. Those qualities are strikingly evident in his early concerti, which are among the most recorded and performed works in the Baroque repertoire. This volume reprints, complete and unabridged, seven complete concerti for solo keyboard and orchestra from the renowned Bach-Gesellschaft edition, still considered the primary source for Bach's music./ Répertoire / Piano et Orchestre