Field: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 3

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JOHN FIELD
Field: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 3
Benjamin Frith (piano) Northern Sinfonia, David Haslam (conductor)

[ Naxos / CD ]

Release Date: Saturday 28 April 2001

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"quite heart-felt in the slow movements"
(Absolute Sound)

"[Field] wrote seven concertos for piano and orchestra, ingratiating works that bubble over with good humor and gentle spirit. Naxos has started a complete series of them with this release, in which Benjamin Frith seems an ideal choice as soloist, providing readings that are gracious and genteel, yet never frivolous; quite heart-felt in the slow movements, but never banal. He is ably supported by maestro Haslam and his good orchestra, and the recording, from something of a mid-hall perspective, is warm and transparent. Naxos' budget price makes this initial Field release, and presumably future additions, affordable to all."
- Absolute Sound (Rad Bennett), April, 2000

"He [Frith] negotiate's Field's many awkward corners and unexpected modulations with panache and conviction....Let's hope Naxos let him record the other five"
- Classic CD

"Both works are played with the effortless fluency we know from his Mendelssohn series - plus all the immediacy and freshness of new discovery"
- Gramophone

Tracks:

Piano Concerto No.1 in E flat-major H.27
Piano Concerto No.3 in E flat-major H.32