Message #31520

[Dundonnell]

Without really hoping for much or indeed anything significantly different from the sort of music suggested by those who had already heard it I bought the cd and have listened to it.

Decidedly not my sort of music. Pleasant, amiable, rambling, romantic, sub-Rachmaninov. If you like this sort of thing then you will like it. There are many other British piano concertos-quite a few not yet on cd- which I would prefer to have.

....so why buy it? If one does not support record companies prepared to go out on a limb to record unfamiliar repertoire then one cannot expect them to record the music I would prefer. I don't see that as negative. I don't find the Coke piano concertos interesting let alone gripping but I applaud Hyperion nevertheless.