Peter Katin - Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1, Concert Fantasia (1958/59) [2011]

Peter Katin shines in Tchaikovsky's First Concerto

Plus a brilliant Concert Fantasia, in excellent late-1950s Decca stereo

This, the second in our series of stereo concerto recordings made in the late 1950s by Peter Katin for Decca and its subsidiaries, brings together his two orchestral Tchaikovsky releases. The Concert Fantasia derived from the same sessions with Boult which produced the Rachmaninov Concerto No. 1 in February 1958, and were issued in mono and stereo both in the UK and the USA at around the same time. The Concerto No. 1 however was initially destined only for the American market - credited originally to the New Symphony Orchestra of London, its UK reissue in the early 1970s gave the London Symphony as the orchestra, though it does not appear in the official discography of the orchestra. It is the only recording in the Decca catalogue credited to English composer and conductor Edric Cundell (1893-1961), whose name was mis-spelt "Kundell" on both Decca and Olympia re-issues, though the original Richmond issues were correct in this matter.


Tracks:

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1
TCHAIKOSVKY Concert Fantasia

Personnel:

Peter Katin, piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
New Symphony Orchestra of London
Edric Cundell, conductor
Sir Adrian Boult, conductor