This week’s episode of the ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award winning program Between the Keys features and intriguing concerto pairing that juxtaposes W.A. Mozart and John Foulds.
“I have a strange fixation for pairing Mozart Concertos with totally unrelated works for piano and orchestra,” says The Classical Network’s Artist-in-Residence Jed Distler, who is the creator, producer and host of Between the Keys. “Yet somehow these episodes work, if only for the radical stylistic contrasts between pieces.”
For Mozart’s Concerto No. 12 in A Major K. 414, Jed features what he considers and unjustly obscure recording that’s never been on CD, so far as he knows. “American music lovers know very little about the great Swedish pianist Hans Leygraf, who lived from 1920 until 2011. And his wonderful Mozart K. 414 has long been out of print. So I got hold of a digital transfer from a clean vinyl pressing, and I hope that listeners will enjoy it.”
Jed also thinks that John Foulds’ Dynamic Tryptich for Piano and Orchestra deserves to be a repertoire staple. “Put simply, this is extravagantly imaginative and brilliantly scored music that can only wow audiences. Peter Donohoe plays the living daylights out of the difficult piano part in the recording that I’ll be sharing with you.”
Join Jed for music of Mozart and Foulds on Between the Keys, this Friday at 3:00 PM, with the rebroadcast Saturday at 6:00 PM, exclusively on The Classical Network and WWFM.org.
