When pianist Peter Donohoe celebrated his 50th birthday in a series of concerts last autumn, Arthur Bliss's Piano Concerto was one of the works he played.
Composed for Solomon, who gave the premiere at the New York World's Fair in 1939, the concerto is a larger-than-life, three-movement work, conceived very obviously in the virtuoso tradition.
This recording sometimes makes it seem even more noisily brash than it usually is, but Donohoe delivers the upfront, high-energy piano writing with relish.
For anyone who admires the work, this is the version to get. Donohoe is equally persuasive in the 1952 Piano Sonata and, with Martin Roscoe, in the extrovert but less substantial Concerto for Two Pianos, which originated in 1921.
