Piano Concerto No 1 'Pìobaireachd' (Chisholm)
from Chisholm: Piano Concertos (CDA67880)
1 Molto moderato (tranquillo) [12'05]
2 Allegro scherzando [4'54]
3 Adagio [8'59]
4 Allegro con brio [7'35]
33 minutes 33 seconds 4 tracks
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‘Radical, visionary … Chisholm was himself a formidable pianist, and both Concertos teem with the kind of brilliant bravura keyboard writing that is meat and drink to Driver. The orchestration is ...
‘"McBartók", as Chisholm became known, based his first piano concerto on the classical music of the pipes, and highly attractive it is, too; full of provocative rhythm and utterly devoid of cliché. Hi ...