Howard Shelley
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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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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 45 - Ferdinand Hiller
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Howard Shelley (piano/conductor)
This must rate as one of the more successful of Hyperion's prodigal disinterments of Romantic Piano Concertos. Howard Shelley's brilliant and stylish playing … gives full value to the lyrical... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2008, Editor's Choice
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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 74 - Sir William Sterndale Bennett
Howard Shelley (piano & conductor)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Shelley is his usual reliable self, making light of technical difficulties, and breathing life into neglected corners of the repertoire. Some of these pieces are short on memorable ideas, but... —
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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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All three works have individuality and substance; and it’s hard to imagine they can ever have been much better played. There are just a few moments – for instance the chords of the piano’s... —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 80 - Dupont & Benoit
Howard Shelley (piano/conductor), Sinfonieorchester St Gallen
Two pleasant, if unremarkable, works. Soloist Howard Shelley adds plenty of sparkle, mind. —
