Tippett: Piano Concerto & Symphony No. 2 (Live) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Steven Osborne & Edward Gardner

• Michael Tippett (1905 - 1998): Piano Concerto:
• 1 Tippett: Piano Concerto: I. Allegro non troppo (Live) 16:25
• 2 Tippett: Piano Concerto: II. Molto lento e tranquillo (Live) 08:52
• 3 Tippett: Piano Concerto: III. Vivace (Live) 07:55
• Symphony No. 2:
• 4 Tippett: Symphony No. 2: I. Allegro vigoroso (Live) 09:21
• 5 Tippett: Symphony No. 2: II. Adagio molto e tranquillo (Live) 10:21
• 6 Tippett: Symphony No. 2: III. Presto veloce (Live) 05:51
• 7 Tippett: Symphony No. 2: IV. Allegro moderato (Live) 08:20
• Total Runtime 01:07:05

Info for Tippett: Piano Concerto & Symphony No. 2 (Live)

LPO-Chefdirigent Edward Gardner liebt die Musik von Michael Tippett, wie er sagt, wegen ihrer „jenseitigen, leuchtenden und elementaren“ Qualitäten, die „direkt von seiner Inspiration ins Herz des Zuhörers treffen“.

Im Jahr 2022 brachten das LPO und Gardner eine bahnbrechende Live-Aufnahme von Tippetts Oper "The Midsummer Marriage" heraus, die mit dem Gramophone Award ausgezeichnet wurde, und auch auf dieser CD wirft Gardner ein Schlaglicht auf diesen faszinierenden Komponisten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das äußerst schwierige Klavierkonzert wird von Steven Osborne makellos gespielt, während die zweite Sinfonie in der neu entdeckten Klarheit, den komplizierten Strukturen und der formalen Strenge schwelgt, die zu den Markenzeichen von Tippetts späteren Werken werden sollten.

Edward Gardner, Dirigent
Steven Osborne, Klavier
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Pieter Schoeman, Leiter (Klavierkonzert)
Alice Ivy-Pemberton, Leiterin (Sinfonie Nr. 2)

Steven Osborne OBE
is one of Britain’s most treasured musicians with an immense depth of musicality and exceptional refinement of expression across diverse repertoire be it in Beethoven or Messiaen, Schubert or Ravel, Prokofiev or jazz improvisations. His numerous awards include The Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist of the Year, two BBC Music Magazine Awards and two Gramophone Awards.

His residences at London’s Wigmore Hall, Antwerp’s deSingel, the Bath International Music Festival, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra are a testament to the respect he commands. Described by The Observer as “always a player in absolute service to the composer”, Steven Osborne’s 32 recordings on Hyperion have won multiple awards. His two 2021 releases, Prokofiev’s War

Sonatas, and French works for piano duet with Paul Lewis, were both shortlisted for a Gramophone Award.

Steven Osborne’s recitals are publicly and critically acclaimed without exception, and his 22/23 programmes revisit his recent recording repertoire of Beethoven and Rachmaninov interspersed with his own improvisations and another of his much-admired composers, Schubert. Osborne has performed at many of the world’s prestigious venues including the Wiener Konzerthaus, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Berlin Phillharmonie, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Kennedy Center Washington and is a regular guest at both Lincoln Center and Wigmore Hall.

Concerto performances take Steven Osborne to major orchestras all over the world including recent visits to the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Radio Symphonieorchester Wien, Oslo Philharmonic, Danish National Radio, London Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Aspen Music Festival and Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center with repertoire ranging from Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Ravel, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich and Messiaen through to Tippett, Britten and Julian Anderson who dedicated his 2017 Piano Concerto to Steven. The 22/23 season sees him return to the London Philharmonic Orchestra to perform the Tippett Piano Concerto with Ed Gardner and performances with the Stuttgart Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Singapore Symphony, West Australian Symphony, Adelaide Symphony and the Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de Sao Paulo.

Recording plans continue with his 33rd release for Hyperion in autumn 2022, the next instalment in his survey of solo works by Debussy. A label artist since 1998, his recordings have accumulated numerous awards in the UK, France, Germany and the USA including two Gramophone Awards, three Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik Awards and a Choc in Classica Magazine in addition to a clutch of Editor’s Choice in Gramophone and Recordings of the Year from The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times and The Sunday Times. His recordings span a wide range of repertoire including Beethoven, Schubert, Debussy, Ravel, Liszt, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Medtner, Messiaen, Britten, Tippett, Crumb and Feldman.

Steven Osborne won first prize at the prestigious Clara Haskil Competition (1991) and the Naumburg International Competition (1997). Born in Scotland he studied with Richard Beauchamp at St. Mary's Music School in Edinburgh and Renna Kellaway at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. He is Visiting Professor at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Patron of the Lammermuir Festival and in 2014 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to music in the 2022 Queen’s New Year Honours.

Edward Gardner
born in Gloucester, has been Artistic Advisor to the Norwegian National Opera in Oslo since 2022 and will become its Music Director in 2024. He has also been Chief Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra since the 2021/22 season. He has held the same position with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra since 2015, with whom he has toured in Berlin, Munich and Amsterdam, at the BBC Proms and the Edinburgh International Festival, among others. After studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he was Music Director of English National Opera from 2006 to 2015. As an opera conductor, he has made several guest appearances at the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Chicago Lyric Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Opéra national de Paris. He has appeared on the concert platform with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. In 2022, he made his debut at the Bavarian State Opera with Peter Grimes.

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