Constant Lambert - Concerto for piano and nine instruments (1931)

[@themise1416]

Beautiful. Such a rich, layered piece Great performance. Thanks for posting.

[@raymarsh4620]

I remember this sort of music from art documentaries. Very evocative.

[@limesquared]

Beautiful! I love the modern twist...

[@peterlunow]

delicious piece of music

[@easyaspi1177]

I never heard of this piece by Lambert! Thanks for posting. I got a book about the three Lamberts and tried to give it away. It just sat there. So I took it back. Glad I did. What a bunch of interesting screwballs. :)

[@esmeephillips5888]

The section about Constant in that book by Andrew Motion is almost entirely lifted from Richard Shead's pioneering biography.

[@giuseppedimarco8358]

Wonderful!

[@rogermaes6001]

Quel bon choix cette toile de Fernand Léger, figuratif et cubiste, moderne et festif, comme cette musique, d'aujourd'hui comme d'hier !

[@ClassicalSaxChannel]

I had the absolute pleasure of performing this wonderful piece a few years ago at the Maverick Festival in Woodstock, NY. Such fun!!!

[@elizabethsweet3692]

ClassicalSaxProject any chance you have the score? I am researching this work atm and cannot get my hands on the score

[@javieroviedo6928]

Elizabeth Sweet I’ll see if I still have that score. I “copied” it from the University Library. I’ll let you know.

[@elizabethsweet3692]

ClassicalSaxProject you’d be a lifesaver if you do have it!

[@javieroviedo6928]

Elizabeth Sweet I’ll do my best to locate it.

[@esmeephillips5888]

24:11, the moment when it all comes together.

[@christopherhosford7805]

A wonderful musician, and let's not forget: As per Daneman's biography of Margot Fonteyn, he was her lover. Lucky duck!

[@esmeephillips5888]

When Fonteyn published her autobiography she cut him out, yet at any time after he separated from Flo Kaye she would have married him in a heartbeat. Michael Somes in 'Horoscope' was united with Fonteyn's character, but life never copied art. Instead she saddled herself with Arias, poor thing.

[@harryandruschak2843]

"Like" on 18 September 2017

[@Glinkaism1]

Same composer who composed THE RED SHOES ballet in the scary movie of the same name. Entirely different style of music from the same composer.

[@dq405]

That would be Brian Easdale.

[@kenboydart]

Nope, he did not, but he did compose for the film Anna Karenina 1948 a real masterpiece .

[@stripedman201]

This sounds too American to be British, and too French to be American. This is genius.

[@jdoggtn7]

Lambert was living in Marseilles when he wrote it. The work is a memorial to Peter Warlock AKA Philip Heseltine, a composer and good friend of Lambert's who had recently died. Quotes from Warlock works are embedded in the material.

[@9827george]

@@jdoggtn7 interesting, because I can hear the style of Darius Milhaud absorbed in some way here.

[@jdoggtn7]

@@9827george Lambert was always very Francophile, as was the young Walton (that later disappeared) and the early Arthur Bliss as well. But while Walton and Bliss excised continental influence from their work and settled into a fairly typical pastorale Britishness, the French vein stayed with Lambert throughout his career. As Lambert was a conductor, he was undoubtedly familiar with Darius Milhaud. But Lambert's work, although jazzy, never makes use of dissonance or polytonality in the way Milhaud did.

[@charlottewhyte9804]

interesting, Lambert also wrote some ballet music if anyone is interested.

[@Glinkaism1]

"You vill dahnce THE RED SHOES."

[@FleuveAlphee]

Indeed, "Horoscope" is a "must-hear" !

[@benlindsay6012]

"Like" on 23 August 2022

[@engloute]

Yummy!

[@RichardOBurdick]

Way too much piano and no enough interplay between the nine and the one.