Romantic piano encores: Grainger, Godowsky, Mendelssohn and more

Hamilton, Kenneth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9831-4849 2021. Romantic piano encores: Grainger, Godowsky, Mendelssohn and more. [Audio CD and Online Recording]. Prima Facie. Available at: https://primafacie.ascrecords.com/romantic_piano_e...

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Abstract

This is an album of pieces I’ve long loved to play. It’s also a paradox: encores without a preceding programme; musical icing without the cake. But the tracks here were at least recorded as “encores”—played in joyful relaxation and relief towards the end of sessions largely devoted to other albums. Some of the pieces are pretty short, including the premiere recording of the elegant arrangement of Saint-Saëns’ Swan by one of my teachers, the late Lawrence Glover. Three of them – Mendelssohn’s quirky “Last Rose of Summer”, Grainger’s luscious Rosenkavalier Ramble, and Ignaz Friedman’s fabulous version of Voices of Spring – are fairly substantial, and the anchors of the programme. The final track (Godowsky’s Symphonic Metamorphosis on the “Artist’s Life” Waltz) is even longer. It’s really too long, I admit, to be an encore in a public concert, but it’s undeniably a lot of fun, and makes a great close for a CD. Hopefully, listeners will be both shaken and stirred.

Item Type:	Digital or visual media
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Music
Subjects:	M Music and Books on Music > M Music
Publisher:	Prima Facie
Last Modified:	28 Apr 2026 10:02
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/140907

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