The Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto Series - Volume 41-50 Part 5 (2006-2009)

The concept of The Romantic Piano Concerto series was born at a lunch meeting between Hyperion and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra sometime in 1990. A few months later tentative plans had been made for three recordings, and the first volume, of concertos by Moszkowski and Paderewski, was recorded in June 1991. In our wildest dreams, none of us involved then could ever have imagined that the series would still be going strong twenty years later, and with fifty volumes to its credit.
These first fifty volumes include 131 works for piano and orchestra, 102 of which are titled ‘Concerto’, the remainder being generally shorter single-movement works or sets of variations. Fifty-nine of these works are premiere recordings and many other featured works have only been recorded once before, often in clearly inferior versions and frequently cut.

Tracklist:

Friedrich Kalkbrenner
Cassel (now Kassel), central Germany, November 7, 1785
Enghien-les-Bains near Paris, June 10, 1849

Piano Concerto no. 1 in D minor, op. 61 (1823)
I. Allegro maestoso [14:41]
II. Adagio di molto [7:11]
III. Rondeau : Vivace [8:57]
Piano Concerto no. 4 in A flat major, op. 127 (1835)
I. Maestoso brillante [13:43]
II. Adagio [6:03]
III. Rondeau : Allegro non troppo [8:32]

Howard Shelley, piano and conducting
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra



Tracklist:

Eyvind Alnжs
Fredrikstad, Norway, April 29, 1872
Oslo, December 24, 1932
Piano Concerto in D major, op. 27 (1914)
I. Allegro moderato [12:52]
II. Lento [8:47]
III. Allegro assai (Tempo di valse) [9:51]

Christian Sinding
Kongsberg, southern Norway, January 11, 1856
Oslo, December 3, 1941
Piano Concerto in D flat major, op. 6 (1889, rev. 1901)
I. Allegro non troppo [12:49]
II. Andante [10:00]
III. Allegro non assai [10:48]

Piers Lane, piano
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Litton



Tracklist:

William Sterndale Bennett (1816–1875)

Piano Concerto No 4 in F minor Op 19
1 Allegro con maesta
2 Barcarole: Andante cantabile e con moto
3 Presto: Agitato

Francis Edward Bache (1833–1858)

Piano Concerto in E major Op 18
4 Allegro non troppo
5 Andante
6 Allegro non assai

William Sterndale Bennett (1816–1875)

Caprice in E major Op 22
7 Allegro giojoso ma con gran delicatezza



Tracklist:

Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor 1892–4 [28'59]
1. Maestoso [13'57]
2. Andantino [4'36]
3. Vivo ma non troppo e poi molto accelerando [10'16]

Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor 1898 [37'27]
4. Allegro moderato [14'42]
5. Andante non troppo lento [12'19]
6. Allegro con fuoco [10'15]

JONATHAN PLOWRIGHT piano
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
CHRISTOPH KЦNIG conductor
Recorded in City Hall, Glasgow, on 7 and 8 March 2007
Hyperion Records



Tracklist:

Piano Concerto No 1 in F minor, Op 5

1 Movement 1: Allegro moderato [10'20'']
2 Movement 2: Adagio [5'52'']
3 Movement 3: Allegro moderato e con grazia [8'09'']
Piano Concerto No 2 in F sharp minor, Op 69
4 Movement 1: Moderato, ma con energia e con fuoco [8'23'']
5 Movement 2: Andante espressivo [6'05'']
6 Movement 3: Allegro con fuoco [5'25'']
Piano Concerto No 3 in A flat major 'Concerto espressivo', Op 170
7 Movement 1: Allegro con anima [12'35'']
8 Movement 2: Andante quasi adagio [8'04'']
9 Movement 3: Allegro con spirito [10'56'']

Howard Shelley (piano), Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Howard Shelley (conductor)



Tracklist:

1 Piano Concerto No 3 in G minor 'Fantasia', Op 23 [17'47'']

Piano Concerto No 4 in A minor, Op 88

2 Movement 1: Moderato serioso – Allegro moderato [13'12'']
3 Movement 2: Poco lento, sostenuto – Poco più andante [14'30'']
4 Movement 3: Allegro energico e risoluto – Moderato serioso [15'02'']

Danny Driver (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)



Tracklist:

Piano Concerto No 1 in C minor, Op 89 Salomon Jadassohn (1831-1902)

1 Movement 1: Introduction quasi recitativo. Allegro appassionato – Andante [2'05'']
2 Movement 2: Adagio sostenuto [4'43'']
3 Movement 3: Ballade. Allegro patetico – Molto più mosso [8'46'']
Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor, Op 90 Salomon Jadassohn (1831-1902)
4 Movement 1: Allegro energico e passionato [12'20'']
5 Movement 2: Andantino quasi allegretto – Agitato – Allegro deciso – Andantino [5'09'']
6 Movement 3: Allegro appassionato [6'07'']
Piano Concerto in E flat major, Op 36 Felix Draeseke (1835-1913)
7 Movement 1: Allegro moderato [9'43'']
8 Movement 2: Adagio [11'08'']
9 Movement 3: Allegro molto vivace [9'28'']

Markus Becker (piano), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Michael Sanderling (conductor)



Tracklist:

JULIUS BENEDICT (1804–1885)
Piano Concerto in C minor Op 45

1 Allegro maestoso
2 Andante pastorale — Allegro — Tempo I
3 Allegro con spirito

Piano Concerto in E flat major Op 89
4 Allegro moderato
5 Andante
6 Rondo brillante: Allegro con spirito

WALTER MACFARREN (1826–1905)

7 Concertstück in E minor



Tracklist:

WILHELM STENHAMMAR (1871–1927)
Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor Op 1 (original version)

1 Molto moderato e maestoso – Sostenuto e tranquillo – Agitato
2 Vivacissimo
3 Andante
4 Allegro commodo – Andante con moto

Piano Concerto No 2 in D minor Op 23

5 Moderato – Allegro molto energico – Più tranquillo
6 Molto vivace – Allegretto – Adagio – Molto vivace
7 Adagio
8 Tempo moderato – Animato – Più animato



Tracklist:

CD 1
Piano Concerto No. 1 in Bb minor, Op. 23
I. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso - 19:11
II. Andantino semplice - 6:20
III. Allegro con fuoco - 6:46
Concert Fantasia in G major, Op. 56
I. Quasi Rondo: Andante mosso - 15:32
II. Contrastes: Andante cantabile - 12:52
Два романса / Two Romances
«Одиночество» («Снова, как прежде, один…») / «Solitude» («Again, as before, alone…»), Op. 73 No. 6 - 2:10
«Нет, только тот, кто знал…» / «None but the lonely heart…», Op. 6 No. 6 - 2:46

CD 2
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 44
I. Allegro brillante - 19:07
II. Andante non troppo - 13:28
III. Allegro con fuoco - 7:07
Piano Concerto No. 3 in Eb major, Op. 75
I. Allegro brillante - 14:46
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 44
II. Andante non troppo (ed. Siloti) - 7:06
II. Andante non troppo (ed. Hough) - 13:56

Performers / Исполнители:
Stephen Hough, piano;
Minnesota Orchestra;
Jorja Fleezanis, violin (CD 2: 2, 6);
Kyu-Young Kim, violin (CD 2: 5);
Antony Ross, cello (CD2: 2, 5, 6);
Osmo Vänskä, conductor.

MP3 320 CBR 2000s Classical

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