In 2020 I posted Gerald Finzi's Clarinet Concerto from this splendid Lyrita record, and I reckoned it was about time the other works got a look in.
Finzi produced relatively few large scale works and although there were the concertos for clarinet and cello, no piano concerto was published. However he had worked on pieces for piano and orchestra and one - Eclogue, was intended to be for a piano concerto and after his death at the tragically early age of 55 his publisher released this music as a standalone work.
The Grand Fantasia and Toccata began life in 1927, when the long piano solo with which the piece opens was composed. Only in 1953 did the work find its final shape with the orchestral and piano interplay reaching a dramatic conclusion. A piano concerto with this music at its heart would have been a stunning piece.
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