Vernon Duke - Piano Concerto, Cello Concerto | Naxos - American Classics 8559286

Vernon Duke - Piano Concerto, Cello Concerto

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Label: Naxos - American Classics

Cat No: 8559286

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 6th November 2007

Contents

Artists

Scott Dunn (piano)
Sam Magill (cello)
Russian Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Dmitry Yablonsky

Works

Duke, Vernon

Cello Concerto
Homage to Boston
Piano Concerto

Artists

Scott Dunn (piano)
Sam Magill (cello)
Russian Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Dmitry Yablonsky

About

The Russian-born composer Vernon Duke (Vladimir Dukelsky) produced a distinguished body of concert music. His Piano Concerto was written for Arthur Rubinstein, who had requested a ‘one-movement piano concerto, pianistically grateful and not too cerebral’, but it was never orchestrated by the composer and therefore never performed in his lifetime.

The American conductor and pianist Scott Dunn completed the work and gave its première at Carnegie Hall in 1999 to great acclaim. He also performs these works on this disc in their world première recording.

Duke’s Cello Concerto is a mature, overtly romantic work in which the influences of Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Shostakovich can be heard. Dating from the same period, his Homage to Boston suite is dedicated ‘to the members of the Boston Symphony’, and portrays various people and places in Boston familiar to the composer.

Contents:
- Piano Concerto (orch. Dunn) (1923/1998)
Scott Dunn (piano), Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky

- Cello Concerto (1945)
Sam Magill (cello), Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky

- Homage to Boston (Suite for Piano Solo) (1945)
Scott Dunn (piano)

(All World Première Recordings)

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