2CDs
COMPACT DISC 1 (80.05)
1. MacDOWELL Piano Concerto No 2 in D minor Op 23
BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA/ARTHUR FIEDLER recorded on 1 July 1936
4. PADEREWSKI Piano Concerto in A minor Op 17
BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA/ARTHUR FIEDLER recorded on 30 June 1939
JUAN MOREL CAMPOS Puerto Rican Dances
7. Felices días 8. Maldito amor 9. Alma sublime 10. Tormento 11. ¡No me toques! 12. Vano empeño 13. Laura y Georgina 14. Buen humor recorded on 9 August 1939 & 1 July 1941
COMPACT DISC 2 (75.34)
1. MENDELSSOHN Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 25
BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA/ARTHUR FIEDLER recorded on 29 June 1938
4. LISZT Totentanz – Paraphrase über ‘Dies irae’ S126
BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA/ARTHUR FIEDLER recorded on 30 June 1937
5. GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue
BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA/ARTHUR FIEDLER recorded on 1 July 1935
6. GERSHWIN Concerto in F for piano and orchestra
BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA/ARTHUR FIEDLER recorded on 22 March 1940
The Puerto Rican pianist JESÚS MARÍA SANROMÁ (1902–1984) came to the USA to study and subsequently built his career there. He had a very wide repertoire and gave the US premieres of many contemporary works, including Ravel’s G major Concerto, but was equally at home in the classics or Gershwin. He had a long association with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and their summer festival brand the ‘Pops’, resulting in the series of concertos reproduced here. All are conducted by Arthur Fiedler (1894-1979) who conducted the ‘Pops’ for an astonishing 50 years from 1930. Their Gershwin Rhapsody was a huge hit, and the MacDowell and Paderewski were first recordings. We’ve filled out the set with Sanromá’s first recording of a selection of dances by Juan Morel Campos, his 19th century Puerto Rican fellow countryman.
APR6045 Available on Compact Disc, as a Digital Download and to Stream