Most listeners of a certain age will remember pianist Tedd Joselson, who wowed Philadelphia Orchestra conductor Eugene Ormandy as a 17-year-old (Ormandy told him to pick a concerto, and the orchestra would back him in that work) and went on to become a staple of the RCA Red Seal LP catalog in the 1970s and 1980s. Joselson retired from performing in 1999 but has continued to teach and to record occasionally. The rather mysterious title of this album refers to an earlier Joselson recording of a piece called the Lim Fantasy of ...
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Most listeners of a certain age will remember pianist Tedd Joselson, who wowed Philadelphia Orchestra conductor Eugene Ormandy as a 17-year-old (Ormandy told him to pick a concerto, and the orchestra would back him in that work) and went on to become a staple of the RCA Red Seal LP catalog in the 1970s and 1980s. Joselson retired from performing in 1999 but has continued to teach and to record occasionally. The rather mysterious title of this album refers to an earlier Joselson recording of a piece called the Lim Fantasy of Companionship for piano and orchestra, although what the connection may be isn't entirely clear. Joselson refers to the three performances as a trilogy, but here, the Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16, and Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, are recorded with two different orchestras, although the same conductor, Arthur Fagen. These are two of the most familiar concertos in the entire repertory, and the market was not clamoring for a new recording of either...
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