André Jolivet: Piano Concerto (1951)

00:00 - I. Allegro deciso
07:53 - II. Senza rigore
18:00 - III. Allegro frenetico
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Piano: Philippe Entremont
Conductor: André Jolivet
Orchestra: Orchestre De La Société Des Concerts Du Conservatoire
Year of Recording: 1968 (???)
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"The Piano Concerto was composed a few years after his Sonata. When it was created in Strasbourg, it sparked a small scandal, a scandal that is actually quite incomprehensible today. The work strikes once again with its dramatic progression, a progression which reserves for the piano a role that is both central and peripheral. Formidably expressive and of an implacable formal construction, it deserves to be played more often.

We cannot put aside the quasi-jouissance that this music produces, precisely because it functions both on the ground of language (the structure which directs us) and on a more archaic energy (the sound continuum which grabs us). This is particularly evident in the First Sonata, but it is also true in the Concerto." (Pascal Gallet)
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Note: Slight edit issue in score at around 3:30.
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