Howard Shelley
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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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[Shelley] succeeds in convincing one that Dussek’s powers of melodic invention are more fertile than is actually the case… It would be all too easy for Dussek’s Mendelssohnian propensity for... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, Concerto Choice
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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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The Classical Piano Concerto 3: F X Mozart & Clementi
RecommendedHoward Shelley (piano & conductor)
Sinfonieorchester St Gallen
Howard Shelley and the orchestra take the listener on an emotional journey —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th August 2016
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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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No pianist today is more steeped in this idiom than Howard Shelley, who, true to form, dispatches both concertos with mingled flamboyance and limpid grace. —
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The Classical Piano Concerto 1: Dussek
RecommendedHoward Shelley (piano & conductor)
Ulster Orchestra
bright, buoyant and restlessly busy —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st July 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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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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Alice Mary Smith - Symphonies
RecommendedAngela Malsbury (clarinet)
London Mozart Players, Howard Shelley
Mendelssohn is clearly the guiding spirit here. But in movements like the delightfully capricious scherzo of the C minor Symphony, and in some of the striking modulations in the outer movements... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 62 - Gounod
RecommendedThe complete works for pedal piano & orchestra
Roberto Prosseda (pedal piano)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Howard Shelley
Pomp and ceremony were not really Gounod's thing. Much the best bits are the central movements of the Suite Concertante and the Concerto. Excellent performances. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th November 2013
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