Piano Concerto's

Pianist+Hiroaki+Takenouchi+%28featured+in+the+critically+acclaimed++television+documentary+The+Prince+and+the+Composer%29+has+recorded+his++first+programme+for+Dutton+Epoch.+He+explores+piano+concertos+by+Georgy++Catoire+%281861-1926%29+and+Percy+Sherwood+%281866-1939%29%2C+two+worthwhile+but++neglected+contemporaries+who+came+to+musical+maturity+in+the+closing++years+of+the+nineteenth+century.+The+Russian+Catoire+%26ndash%3B+who+came+into+the++circle+of+Tchaikovsky%2C+Arensky+and+Lyadov+%26ndash%3B+wrote+in+that+glorious++musical+time+in+Russia+before+the+dissolution+of+the+Revolution%2C+and+it++is+remarkable+that+his+heart-warming%2C+lyrical+Concerto+of+1909+has+been++unrecorded+until+now.+To+all+intents+and+purposes%2C+the+German-born+Percy++Sherwood+was+a+late+romantic+composer%2C+who+made+a+significant+career+as++both+pianist+and+composer+in+Germany+until+1914%2C+but+he+died+in+London++in+June+1939.+His+output+derives+from+the+late-nineteenth+century++romantic+tradition%2C+a+character+particularly+apparent+in+the+gorgeous++slow+movement+of+his+Second+Piano+Concerto+%281932-33%29.+These+two++delightful+additions+to+the+piano+concerto+repertoire+are+issued+in++Dutton+Epoch%26rsquo%3Bs+International+Series.