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The piece gained a reputation for being too difficult and demanding, so Vaughan Williams reworked the piece for two pianos with the assistance of Joseph Cooper. This revised edition premiered in 1946. The piece is difficult, and the piano parts are often percussive and dissonant. It is in three movements: Toccata: Allegro moderato; Romanza: Lento
The Piano Concerto in C is a concertante work by Ralph Vaughan Williams written in 1926 (movements 1 & 2) and 1930-31 (movement 3). During the intervening years, the composer completed Job: A Masque for Dancing and began work on his Fourth Symphony. The concerto shares some thematic characteristics with these works, as well as some of their ...
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Piano Concerto in C major may refer to: Piano Concerto No. 8 (Mozart) Piano Concerto No. 13 (Mozart) Piano Concerto No. 21 (Mozart) Piano Concerto No. 25 (Mozart) Piano Concerto No. 1 (Beethoven) Piano Concerto No. 6 (Ries) Piano Concerto No. 3 (Prokofiev) Piano Concerto (Vaughan Williams)
Serenade to Music is an orchestral concert work completed in 1938 by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, written as a tribute to conductor Sir Henry Wood.It features an orchestra and 16 vocal soloists, with lyrics adapted from the discussion about music and the music of the spheres from Act V, Scene I from the play The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare.
Piano Concerto (Chávez) Chiavi in Mano; Piano Concerto (Unsuk Chin) Piano Concerto No. 1 (Chopin) Piano Concerto No. 2 (Chopin) Concerto for Piano and Concerto in G♯ΔA♭ Concerto Popolare; Concierto heroico; Piano Concerto (Copland) Piano Concerto (Corigliano) Piano Concerto (Cowell)
As a result, the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra premiered the Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus at Carnegie Hall on 10 June 1939, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; it shared the programme with a performance of Vaughan Williams' Suite for Pipes [2] and the world premiere of the Piano Concerto by Arthur Bliss.
The concerto has been generally praised by music critics. Michael Beek of BBC Music Magazine wrote, "That this second violin concerto feels somehow more youthful than the first is interesting, given the fact Williams was fast approaching 90 when he finished it. Its vigour can be put down to experience of course, a sense of having less to prove ...