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Howard Shelley's survey of the piano music is an undoubted highlight of the Mendelssohn revival. In this, the final instalment of the series, he focuses on late works and posthumous publications.1...

Shelley,Howard Romantic Piano Concerto 71 CD1. I. Allegro Maestoso 2. II. Andantino Alla Siciliano Con Variazioni 3. III. Polonaise: Allegretto Vivace 4. I. Allegro Moderato 5. II. Adagio Con Moto 6...

Volume 72 of Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto series comes to the rescue of yet another neglected figure. London-born composer, pianist, writer and educator (he was an early Principal of the Royal...

Shelley,Howard Romantic Piano Concerto 74 CD1. Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor Op 1[23'32] 2. Allegro Con Brio[11'54] 3. Andante Sostenuto[7'00] 4. Presto: Scherzo[4'38] 5. Piano Concerto No 2 in E...

Shelley,Howard Romantic Piano Concerto 78 CD

Composer and conductor, pianist and pedagogue: Aloys Schmitt was respected by his peers and largely forgotten by posterity. As so often in this series, the three works recorded here will have...

The figures of Auguste Dupont and Peter Benoit may be little known outside their native Belgium, yet both enjoyed pianistic and pedagogical success in their lifetimes. Benoit's symphonic poem is a...

Even by the standards of a time and place-Tudor England-in which masterpieces of choral polyphony appear to have been virtually an everyday occurrence, there is something uniquely and intensely...

It is hard to envisage a more enticing prospect: Shostakovich's densely woven String Quartet No.2 and his deceptively backward-looking Piano Quintet, performed by the stellar Takcs Quartet and...

Simpson / Handley / Rpo Symphony 1 & 8 CD1. Symphony No. 1: First Movement, Part 1 2. Symphony No. 1: First Movement, Part 2 3. Symphony No. 1: First Movement, Part 3 4. Symphony No. 1: First...

Rachmaninov's songs all date from the ?rst half of his artistic life, before he left post-revolutionary Russia. They are exquisite, and this recital from Julia Sitkovetsky and Roger Vignoles includes...

Sixteen Christmas Music From Medieval Europe CD1. Puer Natus Est Nobis 2. Nowell: In Bethlem 3. Gaudete (From Pi Cantiones) 4. Nesciens Mater for 5 Voices 5. Song of the Nuns of Chester 6. Coventry...