FLOR PEETERS | Concerto for Organ & Piano, : D’Arcy Trinkwon & David Spencer McBride

This work of Peeters - written in 1951 - is far too seldom performed and remains completely unknown to most people. What a pity - because it’s a splendid concert work that never fails to please audiences with its engaging variety of drama, virtuosity, energy, dialogue, poetry and easy-going appeal the knack for which Peeters always combined with being ’comfortably’ modern. And the power of a concert grand and a organ letting rip together is absolutely thrilling! Here is a version played in 1996 with one of my greatest friends since our first days at the RNCM (and with whom I used to explore quite a lot of two-piano music), David Spencer McBride. We had huge fun doing this piece; it’s an all-too-rare pleasure for us organists to play with other musicians - orchestras, instrumentalists, solo singers etc.