Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra (1938)

Here [is another] installment in BIS's ambitious and revelatory series of Nikos Skalkottas recordings... Skalkottas's Second Piano Concerto [is] a three-movement work from 1937 that recalls Schoenberg's Piano Concerto in its union of 12-tone themes with neoclassical form. It comes as something of a shock to realize Skalkottas's concerto predates Schoenberg's by six years. This is a demanding work that repays careful listening... this would make a fine introduction to the composer's music for hesitant first-timers...

  BIS SACD 1484
  Geoffrey Douglas Madge, piano
  BBC Symphony/Christodoulou