浪漫鋼琴協奏曲23 - 霍爾布魯克、伍德：D小調鋼琴協奏曲 (世界首次錄音)　The Romantic Piano Concerto 23 - Holbrooke & Wood (Hamish Milne, BBC Scottish SO, Martyn Brabbins)

兩位世紀交替之際的英國作曲家霍爾布魯克與伍德，出現在日不落帝國音樂復興的黃金時代，他們都是先以演奏家的姿態走紅樂壇，霍爾布魯克是位卓越的鋼琴家，進入 二十世紀後開始嘗試譜曲，濃厚的文學意味以及壯闊的音樂風格，常被稱為「倫敦的華格納」，像這闋第一號鋼琴協奏曲，就是採用英國文豪艾略特的精靈國王傳奇故事所改寫的《葛溫．努德之歌》，豐富的內涵彷若一闋瑰麗的交響詩。而伍德早年即是一位非凡的小提琴手，然而他的創作才華更勝一籌，被譽為兩次大戰時期最傑出的三大英國作曲家之一，D小調鋼琴協奏曲就是最鮮明的例證。由當今英國首屈一指的鋼琴家漢密許．米恩教授擔任獨奏，徹底展露浪漫時期的絕代鋼琴技藝。

Piano Concerto No 1 'The Song of Gwyn ap Nudd' Op 52[35'52]Joseph Holbrooke (1878-1958)
1 Movement 1 Part 1: Maestoso Allegro 'Open the gates of mirrored horn!'[2'07]
2 Movement 1 Part 2: Animato 'Ye guards of my hold whom wanderers fear'[0'50]
3 Movement 1 Part 3: A tempo 'Harness a steed from the gnomes dark fields'[0'17]
4 Movement 1 Part 4: A tempo 'Vapour of night be thou my shield'[2'16]
5 Movement 1 Part 5: 'Swift through the dell where the young bats wake'[0'49]
6 Movement 1 Part 6: A tempo 'The armies of night are abroad'[0'58]
7 Movement 1 Part 7: Tempo primo 'Here lies the field that was laid to our hand'[2'19]
8 Movement 1 Part 8: 'Deep in the mould lies the golden helmed all'[2'16]
9 Movement 1 Part 9: Più mosso al fine 'No spectre of them will answer my call'[0'47]
10 Movement 2 Part 1: Poco adagio con sentimento 'Faint as the faith of our people long dying'[4'27]
11 Movement 2 Part 2: Tempo poco Allegretto Poco Scherzando 'Clotted of shadows he comes to my hest'[2'29]
12 Movement 2 Part 3: Tempo I 'Daughter of Lear'[1'12]
13 Movement 2 Part 4: 'O God of our torment lean down and decide that we shall never meet again'[1'12]
14 Movement 3 Part 1: Allegro, molto fuoco 'Blade that meets blade with never a sound'[1'19]
15 Movement 3 Part 2: 'Face me afresh though the night hour fails'[1'01]
16 Movement 3 Part 3: Tempo poco Larghetto 'Back to your grave'[1'34]
17 Movement 3 Part 4: Tempo primo 'Break back from the battle'[0'51]
18 Movement 3 Part 5: 'Away from this land, Fairy folk all'[0'48]
19 Movement 3 Part 6: Poco lento 'Flit ye away while the shadows mate Branch and blest earth'[2'17]
20 Movement 3 Part 7: L'istesso tempo (Doppio) 'For scorn follows fast on the Fairy King's fate'[0'52]
21 Movement 3 Part 8: Cadenza[3'12]
22 Movement 3 Part 9: Grandioso – brillante 'She was the most splendid maiden'[1'59]

Piano Concerto in D minor[33'13]Haydn Wood (1882-1959)
23 Maestoso e moderato – Tranquillo – cadenza – Allegro[15'04]
24 Andante[5'51]
25 Finale: Vivace[12'18]