Hyperion Holbrook CD Holbrooke/Wood: Piano Concertos

Hamish Milne (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

CDA67127

Recording details: June 1999
Caird Hall, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
Release date: February 2000
Total duration: 69 minutes 5 seconds

Track listing
Piano Concerto No 1 'The Song of Gwyn ap Nudd', Op 52 (Holbrooke)
CD1 1 Movement 1 Part 1: Maestoso 'Open the gates of mirrored horn!' 2:07
2 Movement 1 Part 2: Animato 'Ye guards of my hold whom wanderers fear' 0:50
3 Movement 1 Part 3: A tempo 'Harness a steed from the gnomes dark fields' 0:17
4 Movement 1 Part 4: A tempo 'Vapour of night be thou my shield' 2:16
5 Movement 1 Part 5: 'Swift through the dell where the young bats wake' 0:49
6 Movement 1 Part 6: A tempo 'The armies of night are abroad' 0:58
7 Movement 1 Part 7: Tempo primo 'Here lies the field that was laid to our hand' 2:19
8 Movement 1 Part 8: 'Deep in the mould lies the golden helmed all' 2:16
9 Movement 1 Part 9: Piu mosso al fine 'No spectre of them will answer my call' 0:47
10 Movement 2 Part 1: Poco adagio con sentimento 'Faint as the faith of our people long dying' 4:27
11 Movement 2 Part 2: Tempo poco Allegretto Poco Scherzando 'Clotted of shadows he comes to my hest' 2:29
12 Movement 2 Part 3: Tempo I'Daughter of Lear' 1:12
13 Movement 2 Part 4: 'O God of our torment lean down and decide that we shall never meet again' 1:12
14 Movement 3 Part 1: Allegro, molto fuoco 'Blade that meets blade with never a sound' 1:19
15 Movement 3 Part 2: 'Face me aresh though the night hour fails' 1:01
16 Movement 3 Part 3: Tempo poco Larghetto 'Back to your grave' 1:34
17 Movement 3 Part 4: Temp primo 'Break back from the battle' 0:51
18 Movement 3 Part 5: 'Away from this land, Fairy folk all' 0:48
19 Movement 3 Part 6: Poco lento 'Flit ye away while the shadows mate Branch and blest earth' 2:17
20 Movement 3 Part 7: L'istesso tempo (Doppio) 'For scorn follows fast on the fairy King's fate' 0:52
21 Movement 3 Part 8: Cadenza 3:12
22 Movement 3 Part 9: Grandioso. brillante 'She was the most splendid maiden' 1:59

Concerto in D minor for piano and orchestra (Wood)
23 Movement 1: Maestoso e moderato - Tranquillo - cadenza - Allegro 15:04
24 Movement 2: Andante 5:51
25 Movement 3: Finale: Vivace 12:18