Quite what it may have been that Charles Trew taught Sorabji or what Sorabji may have learnt from him are both likely to remain mysteries for aye; the fact remains, however, that at the time KSS was studying with CT the younger composer suffered from a serious rash of piano concertos, his first four emerging in the first three years or so of his compositional career. What Trew would have made of the fifth one (the only one so far to reach performance stage) I have no idea; it followed quite soon after those first four, dating as it does from 1920, but it's very different from any of its predecessors, being in a single movement and having far more in common with his second piano sonata and first piano quintet of around the same time (each of which are also single-movement works).thalbergmad wrote:Since nobody has mentioned Sorabji for a few hours, I thought I would post the only known work for piano & orchestra by the only known teacher of Sorabji, being one Charles Augustus Trew.
Unfortunately (or some might say fortunately), all efforts to find the full score have failed, so it looks like it will remain one of rather numerous unperformed concerted works by British composers.
Concertingly.
Best,
Alistair
