What a complete joy they are. As great as the concerto's from the regular rep are, is it not lovely to hear something different?.
Although there are some that i do not care for, i would not personally criticise Hyperion for the quality of the recordings, although some of the performances might leave one un inspired.
Most of my favourites come from the pre 2002 issues, notably the Henselt, Bortkiewicz, Massenet, Brull, D'albert and Litolff.
From the more recent ones, the sparkling salon type concertos of Herz (3,4 & 5) and the 2 Kalkbrenner are definately worth a listen.
One major disappointment was Vol 38, which was Rubinstein 4 and Schawenka 1 played by Hamelin. Note perfect but totally unmoving.
I guess the series could easily reach 100 as there are a lot of concerto's that have been recorded only once and some not at all. I would like to see Bortkiewicz 2, Stavenhagen, De Greef, Pabst, Godard and a few of the Pixis Concerto's.
Thal