Concert for
Piano and Orchestra
Concert for
Piano and Orchestra
1980, piano and orchestra (1,1,1,1,cb 2,1,2 hp, org, perc, str), Composer, 29' (recorded on Opus One #82)
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"The musicianship of Cope is well projected in the overall orchestration and solo work.
Though Cope's music is generally of the avant garde school, it is the quality kind, such
as the never ending gift of Foss and Dallapiccola and also Rochberg. The music is
dramatic."
Jack Shusterman, Composers Recording Society News,
Fall-Winter, 1983-4
"Concert is gestural rather than melodic per se and achieves striking effects through a
deft deployment of contemporary orchestration techniques. The course of motion follows
a relentlessly defiant logic that intrigues and bewilders, unfolding with a momentum so
intense that at times you may feel compelled to dial 911. Cope carries the force of the
score with a precision that is both lyrical and riveting."
Philip Collins, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Jan. 6, 1984
"Concert is a piano concerto, occasionally lyrical, it is mostly expectant, suspenseful.
Certainly it is nearly encyclopedic in its collection of the very latest compositional and
instrumental techniques, but it is also musically cohesive. Each movement leads to the
next, and despite the diversity of numerous individual moments, the result sounds
purposeful and unified."
Fanfare, Sept.-Oct., 1983