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A series of great  classical orchestral and instrumental performances by major conductors, composers and instrumentalists.

More great recordings by the Gotemborg Radio Orch under Sixten Eckerberg

first recording of

Konsert för piano och orkester nr 2, d-moll, op. 23

Performer Göteborgs radioorkester / Sixten Eckerberg / Hans Leygraf
Composer Wilhelm Stenhammar
Type Album
Released November 1946
Recorded December 10, 1945 

1
Moderato – Allegro molto energico – Più tranquillo[9'18]
2
Molto vivace – Allegretto – Adagio – Molto vivace[6'28]
3
Adagio[6'43]
4
Tempo moderato – Animato – Più animato[6'50]

 

4x12"  78 rpm record

 

 

Condition:

EXCELLENT rare scuffs, plays very quiet lightest crackle

A GREAT COPY

The years between the first and second concertos saw the launch of Stenhammar’s conducting career with the premiere of his concert overture Excelsior! Op 13 in 1896. But there were also some failures along the way which precipitated something of a crisis of confidence for Stenhammar the composer. Two unsuccessful operas in the 1890s were followed by a symphony in F major, completed, performed and immediately withdrawn, probably as a reaction to the revelatory experience of encountering Sibelius’s second symphony Op 43 for the first time. It could be said that in working for at least three years to complete the second piano concerto Stenhammar entered his ‘middle’ period. Any outward similarities between the two concertos (four movements, with the scherzo placed second and the middle two in keys far distant from home) are outnumbered by their different events and the later work’s novel, some have said ‘improvised’, structure. Unlike the first concerto, the second starts in an unsettling way: the piano’s tentative opening phrase in D minor is immediately contradicted by the orchestra’s cellos and basses which pull the key downwards. This tonal tug of war between orchestra and piano becomes the main ‘story’ and is all the more confusing because the soloist is the one defending the ‘correct’ key, a lone voice against the orchestra’s powerful attempts to destabilize it (at 1'34'' in track 5, for example). In a long, unaccompanied paragraph the piano presents a second theme and establishes some tonal security (from 2'04''—this passage is a good example of the huge chords Stenhammar requires of both the pianist’s hands) but the tension between soloist and orchestra about the very key of the piece (traditionally something agreed upon before starting!) runs through the whole of the first two movements. (Listen to the argument during the last half minute of track 5.) The cantabile third movement is in C sharp minor, the key to which the orchestra has been gravitating, and it is only by means of a beautiful and subtle transition that the soloist finally convinces the orchestra to come ‘home’ to D major for a glorious, virtuosic finale.

 

Hans Leygraf , born September 7, 1920 in Stockholm , died February 12, 2011 [ 1 ] in Stockholm , was a Swedish pianist , piano teacher, conductor and composer . He was the son of Alois Leygraf and Maria Pieniczka, and from 1944 married Margarethe Stehle.

Biography
Leygraf studied piano for Gottfrid Boon in Stockholm and Anna Hirzel-Langenhan in Switzerland. He was one of Sweden's most famous musicians, as well as a famous teacher. He regularly taught at Edsberg's music institute outside of Stockholm, in Darmstadt , Hannover , Berlin and Salzburg . In Salzburg he was professor of piano at the Musikhochschule Mozarteum between 1972 and 1990, [ 2 ] but continued until 2007 to teach classes for particularly talented students. He gave concerts in 2010 and was probably best known for his interpretationsMozart and Schubert .

As composer, Leygraf was a member of the Monday group , but he stopped composing in the 1940s.

Awards and awards
1961 - Member no. 696 of the Royal Academy of Music
1970 - Grammis for the album Mozart's piano quartet Ess-dur and Ludvig Norman's string quartet a-mole in the category "Serious production of the year" (with the Saulescock quartet)
1977 - Litteris et Artibus
1983 - The Swedish gramophone award for the Mozart album : Piano sons vol. 1
1999 - The medal for the promotion of tone art
2003 - Philosophy honorary doctorate at Luleå University of Technology [ 3 ]

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