Hyperion-Romantic Piano Concerto Series

[virtuatony]

Just to update you all. The RPC vol.46 will be release  (Dont know when) as York Bowen's 3rd and 4th Piano Concertos

Regards,

Diablo

[opus10no2]

Hoorah!

Bowen's solo works are wonderful, some call him the British Rachmaninoff.

[michel dvorsky]

Hamelin's Busoni concerto is a real treat. Delicious.

[opus10no2]

Interesting that you use the food analogy there.

I like to snack on movements, myself, and only occasionally listen to a full concerto.

Considering the gargantuan feast the Busoni offers, one might accuse you of musical gluttony, my dear colleague.

[retrouvailles]

The Jadassohn concertos are after the Bowen, if I remember correctly. Has anyone gotten the recent Hiller release?

[franzliszt2]

I have just got the Hiller. Havn't listened to it yet though

[cygnusdei]

And the Chopin concertos are still conspicuously missing ..........

[thalbergmad]

The 2 Chopin concerti have been recorded about 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times.

The superb Hyperion series gives us a chance to hear those with few recordings and in a lot of cases, those which have never been recorded before. It is heaven for those of us that are prepared to venture outside of regular rep.

The list of unrecorded Romantic Concerti is long, which should mean this series continuing for some years.

Amen to that.

Thal

[tompilk]

yes, i think this link was provided before, but I'll post it here: https://piano-concertos.org/
a few still to go 

[thalbergmad]

An excellent resource, but it needs updating.

There are several he has missed out.

Thal

[cygnusdei]

Are the Prokofiev CDs (Demidenko soloist) good? My CD library is ready for another addition.

Wait, actually these aren't part of the series.

[retrouvailles]

Prokofiev's have been recorded far too often to be part of the series. And besides, Demidenko's Prokofiev is pretty awful, in my opinion. The best Prokofiev concertos set, in my opinion, is the Neeme Järvi/Horacio Gutiérrez/Boris Berman set.

[cygnusdei]

Thanks for the recommendation. I was listening to Yundi Li and Lugansky in the 2nd on Youtube and neither was totally convincing.

As for over-representation, don't forget that the Hyperion series had Mendelssohn and Saint-Saëns ......

[retrouvailles]

But that's the thing. Mendelssohn's two piano concertos and Saint-Saëns' 2nd concerto are overrepresented. However, there are other works on those disks that are hardly every played, like the Mendelssohn Serenade and Allegro Giocoso or the Saint-Saëns 1st concerto, among others.

And I should mention that in my opinion, the Gutiérrez recording of Prokofiev 2 blows all others out of the water, except possibly Malcolm Frager, who is a close 2nd.

[franzliszt2]

I listened to the Hiller last night. There are some wonderfull moments, but they get a little boring. I find the writing a little "samey", sort of octaves and scales.

I love Sharwenka 4th! That is one of my favoutires from the Hyperion set.

[thalbergmad]

Wait for the Draeseke to come out and you might change your mind.

That is a belter.

Thal

[tompilk]

my favourite prok 2 is beroff's. but i'd definitely stay away from demidenko's prok. he seems to play it as though it were chopin, in my opinion.