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The perfect starting point for exploring Romantic piano music. It features historic recordings of a truly excellent standard, including Blumental with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Helmuth Froschauer, the Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg with Pierre Cao accompanying French pianist Dosse, Boehm with the Westphalian Symphony Orchestra under Siegfried Landau, and Antal Doráti conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Ilse von Alpenheim.
This 40 CD set contains a wealth of 19th century piano concertos written by composers who for some reason or other have been neglected by history, so called “minor masters” who may have lost the battle against the giants but nevertheless wrote very attractive, impressive and brilliant concertos for the piano (which in many cases was “their” instrument).
To name just a few: Hummel, Field, Czerny, Cramer, Ries, Clementi, Thalberg, Moscheles, Litolff, Kalkbrenner, Lyapunov, Balakirev, Medtner, Glazunov, Henselt, Moszkowski, Scharwenka and many more, over 60 composers!
Most of the recordings come from the rich and unique VOX catalogue, featuring such excellent pianists as Michael Ponti, Felicja Blumenthal, Hans Kann, Martin Galling, Jerome Rose, Roland Keller and many more.
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:
00:00:00 Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 75: I. Allegro brillante
00:14:23 Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 75: II. Andante
00:23:56 Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 75: III. Finale. Allegro maestoso
00:31:50 Concert Fantasy in G Major, Op. 56: I. Quasi rondo. Andante mosso
00:46:40 Concert Fantasy in G Major, Op. 56: II. Contrastes. Andante cantabile
Christian Sinding:
00:59:55 Piano Concerto in D-Flat Major, Op. 6: I. Allegro non troppo
01:09:18 Piano Concerto in D-Flat Major, Op. 6: II. Andante
01:17:39 Piano Concerto in D-Flat Major, Op. 6: III. Allegro non assai
Hermann Goetz:
01:26:16 Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 18: I. Mäßig bewegt, II. Mäßig langsam
01:47:06 Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 18: III. Langsam, IV. Lebhaft
Carl Reinecke:
01:55:44 Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 72: I. Allegro
02:06:41 Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 72: II. Adagio, ma non troppo
02:12:39 Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 72: III. Finale. Allegro con brio
Felix Mendelssohn:
02:19:56 Capriccio brillant in B Minor, Op. 22
Josef Rheinberger:
02:30:56 Piano Concerto in A-Flat Major, Op. 94: I. Moderato
02:42:51 Piano Concerto in A-Flat Major, Op. 94: II. Adagio pathetico
02:49:50 Piano Concerto in A-Flat Major, Op. 94: III. Finale. Allegro energico
Anton Rubinstein:
02:59:02 Piano Concerto No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 70: I. Moderato assai
03:10:22 Piano Concerto No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 70: II. Andante
03:19:03 Piano Concerto No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 70: III. Allegro
Sigismond Thalberg:
03:28:14 Piano Concerto in F Minor, Op. 5: I. Allegro maestoso
03:39:36 Piano Concerto in F Minor, Op. 5: II. Adagio
03:43:11 Piano Concerto in F Minor, Op. 5: III. Rondo. Allegro