Browse: Hummel, J (composer), Piano Concertos

Shelley's playing throughout is dazzling, clean and precise in all the cascades of virtuoso fingerwork, and with beautifully inflected decorative lines in the slower music, reminding us of Hummel's... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2004, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Shelley is outstanding in this music, blending classical and Romantic elements perfectly.
These two concertos are wonderfully infectious.
The E major occupies a kind of bridge between Mozart... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

All these pieces… are vividly performed by the London Mozart Players, while pianist Howard Shelley throws off Hummel's copious cascade of notes with appropriate panache. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The four concertante pieces on this imaginative disc were written between 1820 and 1833, primarily as vehicles to show off Hummel's virtuosity as the keyboard. Christopher Hinterhuber, who has... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2008 More…

These are decorous rarities played with an assured brilliance and affection. Hummel's Mozartian rather than Chopinesque bias declares itself most obviously in his Op-73 Concertino, though even... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…