STRAVINSKY: COMPLETE MUSIC FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA

Steven Osborne (piano), BBC Scottish SO/Ilan VolkovHyperion CDA 67870

Stravinsky Complete Music for Piano and Orchestra
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Artist: Steven Osborne, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov, Igor Stravinsky
Genre: Classical
Label: Hyperion

STRAVINSKY: COMPLETE MUSIC FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA

Steven Osborne (

Piano), BBC Scottish SO/Ilan Volkov

Hyperion CDA 67870

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The Soviet Union’s stance on the Berne Convention made it difficult in the 1920s for Stravinsky to collect royalties on his most successful works. Writing music for himself to play brought performance fees as well as royalties.

The Concerto for

Piano and Wind Instruments

(1923-4) has a highly-stylised, dryish, neo-classical exuberance. The

Capriccio

(1928-9) lets formality slip by shifting in and out of popular idioms with beguiling, will-o’-the-wisp-like freedom. The much-later

Movements

(1958-9) are from the chameleon-like composer’s serial phase. Steven Osborne’s agreeable performances are coupled with the

Concerto in D for Strings

, an arrangement of the

Song of the Volga Boatmen

, and the

Canon (on a Russian Popular Tune)

of 1965.

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Michael Dervan

Michael Dervan

Michael Dervan is a music critic and Irish Times contributor