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The Romantic Piano Concerto 77 - Bronsart & Urspruch
Emmanuel Despax (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Tzigane
No praise could be high enough for Despax with his immaculate dexterity, his elegant grace and fluency. Hyperion’s sound and balance are superb and Eugene Tzigane’s partnership is warmly sympathetic....
The Romantic Piano Concerto 77 - Bronsart & Urspruch
Emmanuel Despax (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Tzigane
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No praise could be high enough for Despax with his immaculate dexterity, his elegant grace and fluency. Hyperion’s sound and balance are superb and Eugene Tzigane’s partnership is warmly sympathetic....
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The common thread—as so often in The Romantic Piano Concerto series—is Liszt, in whose Weimar circle both composer-pianists featured here moved. Both concertos are pleasingly substantial, and the typically demanding piano writing is powerfully dispatched by Emmanuel Despax.
Contents and tracklist
- Emmanuel Despax (piano)
- BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- Eugene Tzigane
- Emmanuel Despax (piano)
- BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
- Eugene Tzigane
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Awards and reviews
November 2018
No praise could be high enough for Despax with his immaculate dexterity, his elegant grace and fluency. Hyperion’s sound and balance are superb and Eugene Tzigane’s partnership is warmly sympathetic. This is a delectable disc.
14th October 2018
While Bronsart’s impressively grandiose F sharp minor concerto of 1873 displays many Lisztian flourishes, it’s very distinctively his own...Urspruch, another pupil of Liszt in Weimar, took a very different approach, keeping his soloist constantly busy...Bringing these pieces so vividly to life are pianist Emmanuel Despax with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Eugene Tzigane.
