The Romantic Piano Concerto
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 27 - Saint-Saëns
RecommendedStephen Hough (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
If Saint-Saëns's idiom once answered – and maybe still does – to qualities fundamental to the French musical character, it must be said straight away that Hough sounds the complete insider.... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Concerto
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2001, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Gold Disc
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 70 - Beach, Chaminade & Howell
RecommendedBeach, Chaminade & Howell: Piano Concertos
Danny Driver (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rebecca Miller
Pick of the bunch is the Concerto by Amy Beach…Danny Driver is a highly accomplished soloist, if occasionally lacking in Romantic flexibility; the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Rebecca... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2017
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Building A Library, January 2022, Featured Recording
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 72 - Cipriani Potter
Howard Shelley (piano & conductor)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
[Potter's concertos] are conservative in style, but distinctively coloured through their prominent use of wind instruments, as well as occasional passages for solo violin and cello...The warmth... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2017, Concerto Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2017
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Concert Recording (19th-century music)
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 50 – Tchaikovsky
RecommendedStephen Hough (piano)
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
Both soloist and conductor seem committed to emphasising the architectural integrity of Tchaikovsky's musical thinking...Yet by keeping things moving and delivering performances that project... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th March 2010
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Building a Library, November 2022, Also Recommended - 1st Concerto
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 11 - Scharwenka & Sauer
RecommendedStephen Hough (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Foster
A glitteringly worthy addition to the Hyperion series ... Stephen Hough exhibits dazzling flair in showpiece concertos by Sauer and Scharwenka – and plenty of stamina ... Hough plays throughout... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1996, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 1996, Winner - Concerto
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 82 - Elmas: Piano Concertos
RecommendedHoward Shelley (piano), Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
It would be hard to find a more highly committed advocate a more highly committed advocate for this music than Howard Shelley for this music than Howard Shelley who masters all the considerable... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th January 2021
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Herz's talent […] lay not in profundity but in pleasing the crowds, and he did that exceptionally well…Shelley by turns charms and dazzles…unless your doctor has prescribed some strict froth-free... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th July 2015
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 78 - Clara Schumann
RecommendedPiano Concerto & works by Hiller, Herz & Kalkbrenner
Howard Shelley (piano & conductor)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
[Schumann] Shelley and his well-drilled Tasmanians provide the best possible case, not least in the songlike Romanze, which contains a gorgeous passage for piano and solo cello. Shelley opens... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 68 - Moszkowski
Ludmil Angelov (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Kiradjiev
Angelov dispatches the hugely taxing piano part with consummate virtuosity, and the orchestra respond with alert and strongly characterised playing under Vladimir Kirjadev…a very welcome addition... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, Concerto Choice
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 79 - Pfitzner & Braunfels
Markus Becker (piano)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Constantin Trinks
One key aspect of Pfitzner’s endlessly fascinating Piano Concerto that immediately strikes home is its harmonic richness…Like most of Braunfels’s music that I’ve heard, [his concerto] suggests... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019, Editor's Choice
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