Kaptainis: André Mathieu — 'new music' is user-friendly, Lefèvre says

André Mathieu’s greatest hit? For decades the simple answer to this seldom-asked question was the Concerto de Québec. Now we have an alternative response: the Piano Concerto No. 3 Op. 25 of 1943, on which the Concerto de Québec was based.
Alain Lefèvre, Mathieu’s longtime champion, has made a recording on Analekta of this earlier version in an orchestration by the Abitibi-Témiscamingue conductor and arranger Jacques Marchand. Meanwhile, a new record