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A bargain for all fans of John Field's influential Piano Concertos — Gramophone Magazine, October 2010

Release Date: 26th Oct 2009
Catalogue No: 93783
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

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Field: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, H27

Work length22:03

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Paolo Restani
Nice Philharmonic Orchestra
Marco Guidarini

I. Allegro

Track length9:49

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II. Air Ecossais, "Within a mile of Edinburgh town": Adagio non troppo

Track length6:58

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III. Finale. Allegro vivace

Track length5:16

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Field: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A flat major, H31

Work length37:03

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Nice Philharmonic Orchestra
Marco Guidarini

I. Allegro moderato

Track length20:46

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II. Poco adagio

Track length3:51

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III. Moderato innocente

Track length12:26

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Excerpt, Field: Piano Concerto No. 3 in E flat major, H32

Work length18:33

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Paolo Restani
Nice Philharmonic Orchestra
Marco Guidarini

I. Allegro moderato

Track length18:33

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Field: Nocturne No. 2 in C minor H.25

Work length5:07

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Excerpt, Field: Piano Concerto No. 3 in E flat major, H32

Work length14:25

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Nice Philharmonic Orchestra
Marco Guidarini

III. Rondo. Tempo di polacca

Track length14:25

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Field: Piano Concerto No. 4 in E flat major, H28

Work length34:51

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Paolo Restani
Nice Philharmonic Orchestra
Marco Guidarini

I. Allegro moderato

Track length18:37

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II. Siciliano: Un poco adagio

Track length3:19

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III. Rondo. Allegretto

Track length12:55

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Field: Piano Concerto No. 5 in C major, 'L'incendie par l'orage', H39

Work length29:15

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Nice Philharmonic Orchestra
Marco Guidarini

I. Allegro moderato

Track length18:39

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II. Adagio

Track length2:07

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III. Rondo. Allegro

Track length8:29

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Field: Piano Concerto No. 6 in C major, H49

Work length33:21

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Nice Philharmonic Orchestra
Marco Guidarini

I. Tempo di marcia: Allegro moderato

Track length20:36

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II. Larghetto

Track length6:17

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III. Rondo. Moderato

Track length6:28

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Field: Piano Concerto No. 7 in C major, H58

Work length32:05

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Nice Philharmonic Orchestra
Marco Guidarini

I. Allegro maestoso - Lento - Tempo I

Track length18:57

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II. Rondo. Allegro moderato

Track length13:08

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John Field, inventor of the Nocturne. That is all most people know about this remarkable and influential Irish composer. Born in 1782 in Dublin, he became one of the most celebrated pianist-composers of the early-Romantic age. Admired by his contemporaries Hummel, Moscheles and Kalkbrenner, he also drew praise from Chopin (upon whose music he exerted a huge influence) and Schumann. ‘Discovered’ by Clementi in London in 1794, he was given a thorough musical education by the great Italian master, who quickly recognised the 11-year-old’s talent. Moving in circles that included J.B. Cramer, Dussek and Gyrowetz, he performed before Joseph Haydn in London. In 1799 he premiered his Piano Concerto No.1 in E flat to huge acclaim, and followed it quickly with the three piano sonatas Op.1. Clementi and Field left London in 1802 for an extended European tour, to include Vienna and St Petersburg.

The kindly Clementi arranged for Field to study with Albrechstberger, who had taught the young Beethoven. In 1803, in St Petersburg, the two men went their separate ways, Field having become the darling of the Russian aristocracy. ‘Not to have heard Field was regarded as a sin against art and good taste’said one commentator about the ‘Field fever’ that was sweeping the salons. His seven concertos contain some of his most strikingly original and beautiful ideas. Notable is the central slow nocturne section in the first movement of No.7 (praised by Schumann), and the storm sequence in No.5, complete with gong, bell, tam tam, trombone and a second piano. The Second Concerto remained in the repertoire of the great virtuosi Pachmann, Mark Hambourg, Nikolai Rubinstein and von Bulow. Chopin and Clara Schumann taught it. It remains one of the most influential and effective early-Romantic piano concertos, and the blueprint for Chopin’s two concertos.

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A bargain for all fans of John Field's influential Piano Concertos

John Field - Complete Piano Concertos

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