Tippett: Piano Concerto & Symphony No. 2

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LPO – 0129
Total playing time: 66:42
Released: 29 November 2024

Made in Poland
℗ 2024 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd
© 2024 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd

Producers: Tim Oldham, Floating Earth (Piano Concerto); Andrew Walton, K&A Productions (Symphony No. 2)
Engineers: Mike Hatch, Floating Earth (Piano Concerto); Deborah Spanton, K&A Productions (Symphony No. 2)
Executive Producers:
Elena Dubinets, David Burke, Graham Wood
Publisher: © Schott Music GmbH

Recorded at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall: Piano Concerto on 25 January 2023; Symphony No. 2 on 10 April 2024.

CD: Tippett: Piano Concerto & Symphony No. 2

Michael Tippett
Piano Concerto
01. Allegro non troppo
02. Molto lento e tranquillo
03. Vivace

Symphony No. 2
04. Allegro vigoroso
05. Adagio molto e tranquillo
06. Presto veloce
07. Allegro moderato

Edward Gardner conductor
Steven Osborne piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Pieter Schoeman leader (Piano Concerto)
Alice Ivy-Pemberton leader (Symphony No. 2)

LPO Principal Conductor Edward Gardner loves the music of Michael Tippett, he says, because of its ‘otherworldly, luminous and elemental’ qualities, which ‘strike right from his inspiration to a listener’s heart.’

In 2022 the LPO and Gardner released a landmark live recording of Tippett’s opera The Midsummer Marriage, which won a Gramophone Award, and on this disc Gardner continues to shine a spotlight on this fascinating 20th-century composer. The exquisite filigree of the Piano Concerto is executed flawlessly by Steven Osborne, while the Second Symphony revels in the newfound clarity, intricate textures and formal rigour that would become the hallmarks of Tippett’s later works.

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