Special offer. Benda: Piano Concertos
Howard Shelley (piano), London Mozart Players
Shelley makes the most of Benda’s ear-catching and surprisingly volatile piano figuration in the fast movements and brings a soulful quality to the melodies in the slow movements...the London...
Special offer. Benda: Piano Concertos
Howard Shelley (piano), London Mozart Players
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Shelley makes the most of Benda’s ear-catching and surprisingly volatile piano figuration in the fast movements and brings a soulful quality to the melodies in the slow movements...the London...
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Of the same generation as Mozart’s father and Bach’s children, Georg Anton Benda was highly regarded in his day (not least by Mozart himself). Howard Shelley brings his customary probing, intelligent musicianship to this selection of four early classical concertos.
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December 2021
Shelley makes the most of Benda’s ear-catching and surprisingly volatile piano figuration in the fast movements and brings a soulful quality to the melodies in the slow movements...the London Mozart Players are clearly at home in this repertoire and in the slow movements orchestra and pianist make the most of Benda’s imaginative textures.
