Hyperion
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 83 - Gablenz: Piano Concerto & Paderewski: Polish Fantasy
Jonathan Plowright (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Łukasz Borowicz
Plowright makes the best possible case for [the Gablenz] in partnership with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Lukasz Borowicz, a champion of neglected Polish music...Paderewski’s Polish... —
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The singers conjure up some exultant moments. —
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Hamelin scampers and thunders by turns but not once does he upstage the string-players. That this disc simply gets better and better on repeated listening is ample recommendation. —
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Building a Library, January 2019, Recommended Recording
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Erik Chisholm: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Danny Driver (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rory Macdonald
Chisholm was himself a formidable pianist, and both Concertos teem with the kind of brilliant bravura keyboard writing that is meat and drink to Driver. The orchestration is colourfully, but... —
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Here we have coruscating performances by Simon Callaghan and the Sinfonieorchester St Gallen of three of Reinecke’s four piano concertos. Written respectively in 1860, 1872 and 1900, they reflect... —
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The performances of the four original works (the last two, written in 1790 and 1791, look forward to Beethoven and pay homage to Haydn) are magnificently played throughout — conversational,... —
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…Performances that project vibrant rhythmic urgency alongside a wonderful attention to internal detail and a subtle control of instrumental colour. —
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he's a born Brahmsian, equipped at the highest level with the necessary speed and power, the muscular strength and facility of finger tempered by breadth of outlook and solidity of intellect. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2010, Editor's Choice
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 17 - Mendelssohn
Stephen Hough (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Foster
With Stephen Hough's Mendelssohn we enter a new dimension. The soft, stylish arpeggios that open the first work here, the Capriccio brillant, announce something special. But this is just a preparation... —
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Not just for Salome did Strauss demand several voices in one: here he ranges from the ditzy skitterings of the Ophelia Songs via the full-on operatic scena that is the Schwarzkopf favourite... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Vocal Finalist
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