The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 60 - Dubois: Piano Concertos - Cédric Tiberghien, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze

1
Concerto-capriccioso in C minor[16'18]
Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor[28'00]
2
Allegro[11'36]
3
Adagio con sentimento profondissimo[6'35]
4
Allegro vivo, scherzando[2'38]
5
Con molta fantasia: Allegro con fuoco[7'11]
Suite for piano and string orchestra in F minor[21'06]
6
Moderato[6'41]
7
Allegretto[3'05]
8
Andante[6'39]
9
Allegro vivo[4'41]

The wonderful French pianist Cédric Tiberghien has made several admired recital and chamber recordings. Now he joins the impressive roster of pianists who have contributed to Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series with Volume 60: Théodore Dubois. Three works by this French composer are included here, and they present a captivating panorama of the evolution of Dubois’ style over some forty years: the Concerto-capriccioso of 1876 seems like a preliminary study in the style of such composers as Weber and Mendelssohn, whereas the highly Romantic Concerto in F minor (1897) is reminiscent of Saint-Saëns. The completely unknown Suite for piano and strings (1917), for its part, resembles a neoclassical pastiche.