Idyll for Two Pianos and Orchestra

Composer: EVANS, Lindley
  • Lindley composed his Idyll for Two Pianos and Orchestra in 19421 and his manuscript performing edition of the full score it dated 1943.2
  • Piano duo repertoire was a performing specialty of Lindley’s. He performed for 40 years in a piano duo with his former teacher Frank Hutchens.3
  • Our music library’s recording of this work comes from the album Swagman’s Promenade: Australian Light Classics (ABC Classics 442374). In this recording, the piece has been by Isador Goodman for one piano and orchestra. Goodman was a friend of Lindley’s, and his colleague of at the NSW Conservatorium.4

Sources

  1. Warren A. Bebbington and Larry Sitsky, “Evans, Lindley,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed October 1, 2021,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000047743.
  2. Lindley Evans, Idyll for Two Pianos and Orchestra (Manuscript), 1943, https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/product/idyll-for-two-pianos-and-orchestra. 
  3. Bebbington and Sitsky, “Evans, Lindley,” Grove Music Online.
  4. “Lindley Evans: Represented Artist,” The Australian Music Centre (2021), accessed October 1, 2021, https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/evans-lindley. 

Cut IDs

43491