Product Review

Bringing to light another of Hans Gál s gorgeously melodic and finely crafted scores, AVIE presents the world premiere recording of the Austrian émigré s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with English pianist Sarah Beth Briggs supported by Gál aficionado Kenneth Woods conducting the Royal Northern Sinfonia. Written in 1948, Gál s large-scale romantic concerto abounds with sweeping phrases and pyrotechnics, yet at the heart of the piece lies the composer s signature clarity and precision, making the work an ideal coupling for his 18th century Viennese compatriot Mozart s great E-flat major concerto of 1785.