Jazz In New Concerto
The Australian composer. Malcolm Williamson, has given jazz idioms a vital share in his Third Piano Concerto, which was given its British premiere last month by the Halle Orchestra with the composer as soloist. “The Times” described it as a vivid and exciting work with ideas, good in themselves, brilliantly developed and forcefully projected. Every movement has a “big tune” worthy of Rachmaninov himself.
What seemed its weakness, however, was the way the piece, instead of growing organically, swung between two irreconcilable styles—a voluptuous nineteenth-cen-tury romanticism and a 1962 hotting up of Constant Lambert’s piano jazz idiom.
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Press, Issue 30997, 1 March 1966, Page 11
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