Krenek: Complete Piano Concertos 1

The piano concertos of Ernst Krenek (190091) are major contributions to the twentieth-century repertoire, comparable to those of Bartók, Prokofiev, Schoenberg and Shostakovich, but astonishingly two of them have never had commercial recordings an omission this series seeks to redress. Piano Concertos Nos. 13, written between 1923 and 1946, show Krenek throwing off the constraints of tonality in favour of a freewheeling, individual use of twelve-tone technique, brimming with colour and often animated with a keen sense of wit.