Ireland: Piano Concerto; Legend; First Rhapsody; A Sea Idyll, etc – review

Lenehan/Royal Liverpool PO/Wilson(Naxos)The piano concerto that John Ireland composed in 1930 is generally regarded as the finest orchestral work of a composer who generally seems to have been more effective working on a smaller, more intimate scale. It was played by a number of outstanding pianists, including Clifford Curzon and Arthur Rubinstein, but it's rarely heard in concert halls nowadays, and the majority of the 10 versions in the current CD catalogue would qualify as historic recordin...

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