BIS: BISCD1317

Tcherepnin - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3

Concerto No. 1 was composed in a late-Romantic vein: ‘a typical Sturm und Drang piece’, as Tcherepnin himself would later describe it. By the time of the third concerto, he had entered a modernist stage and the work was written during wide-ranging travels that brought the composer from Boston to Jerusalem and Cairo – its first theme was inspired by a song he heard from Egyptian boatmen on the Nile. Also included are two orchestral works: Festmusik, a suite from the opera The Wedding of Sobeide with libretto by Richard Strauss’ collaborator Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Symphonic March, composed in 1951, as Tcherepnin was establishing himself as a symphonic composer in the USA.