034571176550

Hiller: Piano Concertos

Howard Shelley; Howard Shelley: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

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Format: CD

Cat No: CDA67655

Release Date:  01 April 2008

Label:  Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  034571176550

Genres:  Classical  Orchestral  

  • Description

    The Romantic Piano Concerto series continues to bring undiscovered works to the listening public, performed by the greatest piano virtuosos of today. The composer Hiller was admired by Schumann, who described him as the exemplar of ‘how to combine orchestra and piano in brilliant fashion’. One of the most imposing musical personalities of the nineteenth century, close friends with the likes of Rossini, Liszt, Berlioz and particularly Mendelssohn, Hiller was nevertheless largely forgotten less than twenty years after his death as musical fashion changed. The Second Concerto is a genuine forgotten masterpiece, and Hyperion has been looking for the right opportunity to record it for many years. The First and Third concertos are both first recordings, and indeed the Third was never published. A combination of the appealing and the unknown makes this a classic RPC disc. Howard Shelley is a veteran of the Romantic Piano Concerto series. He conducts the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra here from the piano.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Concerto for Piano no 1 in A flat major, Op. 5: 1st movement, Allegro moderato
      • 2. Concerto for Piano no 1 in A flat major, Op. 5: 2nd movement, Adagio
      • 3. Concerto for Piano no 1 in A flat major, Op. 5: 3rd movement, Allegro moderato e con grazia
      • 4. Concerto for Piano in F sharp minor, Op. 69: 1st movement, Moderato, ma con energia e con fuoco
      • 5. Concerto for Piano in F sharp minor, Op. 69: 2nd movement, Andante espressivo
      • 6. Concerto for Piano in F sharp minor, Op. 69: 3rd movement, Allegro con fuoco
      • 7. Concerto for Piano no 3 in A flat major, Op. 170: 1st movement, Allegro con anima
      • 8. Concerto for Piano no 3 in A flat major, Op. 170: 2nd movement, Andante quasi adagio
      • 9. Concerto for Piano no 3 in A flat major, Op. 170: 3rd movement, Allegro con spirito