Piano Concerto in d minor

Composer: HOWELL, Dorothy
  • Howell completed this concerto in 1923.1
  • Howell played the concerto’s premiere on August 23, 1923, at the Queen’s Hall in London. The concert was part of the summer Proms series, and Sir Charles Wood conducted the performance.2
    • Wood had also conducted Howell’s 1919 tone poem Lamia, the work that first brought Howell widespread recognition as a composer.3
  • This concerto’s initial poor critical reception discouraged Howell. Subsequently, she focused on smaller-scale works, rather than large orchestral pieces.4
  • Listen for: the concerto is structured in one long movement with three contrasting sections, rather than three movements with audible breaks between.5

Sources

  1. Celia Mike, “Howell, Dorothy,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed July 29, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000045794.  
  2. Nigel Simeone, “Piano Concerto in D minor,” Hyperion, accessed July 29, 2021, https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W19740_GBAJY1713001. 
  3. Mike, “Howell, Dorothy,” Grove Music Online 
  4. Simeone, “Piano Concerto in D minor,” Hyperion
  5. Ibid.

Cut IDs

24057