York Bowen was a British pianist/composer of the early and middle twentieth century -- a fairly uncommon combination in that time and place. The otherwise fine booklet notes make the claim that he was the first pianist to record Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, which may well be true but is a startling enough claim to require specifics that are not provided. He was sometimes called "the English Rachmaninoff," and his piano music is full of technical minefields. A conservative, almost forgotten since the onset of modernist ...
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York Bowen was a British pianist/composer of the early and middle twentieth century -- a fairly uncommon combination in that time and place. The otherwise fine booklet notes make the claim that he was the first pianist to record Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, which may well be true but is a startling enough claim to require specifics that are not provided. He was sometimes called "the English Rachmaninoff," and his piano music is full of technical minefields. A conservative, almost forgotten since the onset of modernist repression in the 1950s, he is being championed by Dutch pianist Joop Celis; this is the second in what is apparently an ongoing series of discs covering Bowen's roughly 160 compositions. The results are mixed. The Chandos label's publicity for this release touts Bowen's "fusion" style, pointing to French neo-Classic elements -- and there's a good deal of English academic absorption of Brahmsian models as well. But it's less a fusion than a hodgepodge of imperfectly digested samples....
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