Concerto for Piano and Strings

• Carwithen composed this concerto in 1946-8. During this same period, Carwithen held a position as sub-professor of composition at the Royal College of Music.¹
• Click here to read Doreen Carwithen’s own program notes to this concerto, from the 1997 recording by Howard Shelley and the LSO. (See p. 5-6) 

“The Concerto was completed in 1948 and contains much vigorous, brilliant writing for the soloist set against a sensitive use of strings.”

From Doreen Carwithen’s program note on her Concerto for Piano and Strings²

Movements 

1. Allegro assai 
2. Lento 
3. Moderato e deciso ma con moto³

1. Lewis Foreman, “Carwithen, Doreen,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed May 11, 2022, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000049089.
2. Doreen Carwithen, liner notes to Doreen Carwithen: Orchestral Works, Howard Shelley, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox, Chandos 10365, CD, 1997.
3. Ibid.