The Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto Series - Volume 1-10 Part 1 (1991-1995)

The concept of The Romantic Piano Concerto series was born at a lunch meeting between Hyperion and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra sometime in 1990. A few months later tentative plans had been made for three recordings, and the first volume, of concertos by Moszkowski and Paderewski, was recorded in June 1991. In our wildest dreams, none of us involved then could ever have imagined that the series would still be going strong twenty years later, and with fifty volumes to its credit.
These first fifty volumes include 131 works for piano and orchestra, 102 of which are titled ‘Concerto’, the remainder being generally shorter single-movement works or sets of variations. Fifty-nine of these works are premiere recordings and many other featured works have only been recorded once before, often in clearly inferior versions and frequently cut.

Tracklist:

Moritz Moszkowski
(Breslau, August 23, 1854 - Paris, March 4, 1925)
Piano Concerto in E major, op. 59 (1897-98)
I. Moderato [13:07]
II. Andante [8:17]
III. Scherzo : Vivace [6:31]
IV. Allegro deciso [9:16]

Ignacy Jan Paderewski
(Kurylowka, Podolia, November 6, 1860 - New York, June 29, 1941)
Piano Concerto in A major, op. 12 (1888-89)
I. Allegro [16:29]
II. Romanza : Andante [10:08]
III. Allegro molto vivace [8:32]

Piers Lane, piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Jerzy Maksymiuk

Recorded in City Hall, Glasgow on 3, 4 June 1991
Recording engineer, Tony Faulkner. Recording producer, Martin Compton



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Nikolai Medtner
(Moscow, January 5, 1880 - London, November 13, 1951)

Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 50 (1920, rev. 1927)
I. Toccata (Allegro risoluto) [17:37]
II. Romanza (Andante con moto) [9:52]
III. Divertimento (Allegro risoluto e molto vivace) [11:08]

Piano Concerto no. 3 in E minor, op. 60 (1940-43)
I. Con moto largamente [15:21]
II. Interludium (Allegro molto sostenuto, misterioso) [1:36]
III. Finale (Allegro molto. Svegliando, eroico) [18:37]

Nikolai Demidenko, piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Jerzy Maksymiuk

Recorded in Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh on 7, 8 November 1991
Recording engineer, Tony Faulkner. Recording producer, Andrew Keener



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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
(Hamburg, February 3, 1809 - Leipzig, November 4, 1847)

Concerto in A flat major for two pianos (1824)
I. Allegro vivace [17:26]
II. Andante [9:45]
III. Allegro vivace [14:17]

Concerto in E major for two pianos (1823)
I. Allegro vivace - Poco piщ allegro [12:58]
II. Adagio non troppo [9:17]
III. Allegro [8:20]

Stephen Coombs & Ian Munro, pianos
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Jerzy Maksymiuk

Recorded in City Hall, Glasgow on 31 August, 1 September 1991
Recording engineer, Philip Hobbs. Recording producer, Andrew Keener



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Anton Stepanovich Arensky
(Novgorod, July 12, 1861 - Perkijarvi, Finland, February 25, 1906)
Piano Concerto in F minor, op. 2 (1881)
I. Allegro maestoso [12:16] - II. Andante con moto [6:49]
III. Scherzo - Finale : Allegro molto [6:48]
Fantasia on Russian Folksongs, op. 48 (1899) [9:05]

Sergeij Bortkiewicz
(Kharkov, Ukraine, February 16, 1877 - Vienna, October 25, 1952)
Piano Concerto no. 1 in B flat major, op. 16 (1912)
I. Lento - Allegro deciso [16:50] - II. Andante sostenuto [6:39]
III. Molto vivace e con brio [12:14]

Stephen Coombs, piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Jerzy Maksymiuk

Recorded in Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow on 21, 22 August 1992
Recording engineer, Tony Faulkner. Recording producer, Andrew Keener



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Nikolaj Andreevic Rimsky-Korsakov
(Tikhvin, March 6, 1844 - Lyubensk, June 8, 1908)
Piano Concerto in C sharp minor, op. 30 (1882-3)
I. Moderato - Allegretto quasi polacca - attacca: [6:22]
II. Andante mosso - attacca: [4:15] - III. Allegro [4:03]

Milij Alekseevic Balakirev
(Nizhny Novgorod, January 2, 1837 - St. Petersburg, May 29, 1910)
Piano Concerto no. 1 in F sharp minor, op. 1 (1856) [13:42]
Piano Concerto no. 2 in E flat major, op. posth. (1861-1910)
I. Allegro non troppo [13:07] - II. Adagio [10:07]
III. Allegro risoluto (compl. Sergei Lyapunov) [8:54]

Malcolm Binns, piano
The English Northern Philharmonia
David Lloyd-Jones

Recorded in Huddersfield Town Hall, West Yorkshire on 25, 26 October 1992
Recording engineer, Tony Faulkner. Recording producer, Andrew Keener



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Ernц (Ernst von) Dohnanyi
(Poszony / Bratislava, July 27, 1877 - New York City, February 9, 1960)
Piano Concerto no. 1 in E minor, op. 5 (1897-8)
I. Adagio maestoso - Allegro - Adagio [18:02]
II. Andante [10:02]
III. Vivace - Cadenza con orchestra - Vivace [17:07]
Piano Concerto no. 2 in E minor, op. 42 (1946-7)
I. Allegro - attacca: [14:12]
II. Adagio, poco rubato - attacca: [7:44]
III. Allegro vivace [7:51]

Martin Roscoe, piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Fedor Glushchenko

Recorded in Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow on 17, 18 June 1993
Recording engineer, Philip Hobbs. Recording producer, Andrew Keener



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Adolf von Henselt
(Schwabach, Bavaria, May 12, 1814 - Warmbrunn, October 10, 1899)
Piano Concerto in F minor, op. 16 (1843-4)
I. Allegro patetico - Religioso - Reprise [13:44]
II. Larghetto [8:06]
III. Allegro agitato [8:14]
Variations de Concert, op. 11 (1840) [17:52]
on ‘Quand je quittai la Normandie’ from Jacob Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable

Charles-Valentin Alkan
(Paris, November 30, 1813 - March 29, 1888)
Concerto da Camera in C sharp minor, op. 10 no. 2 (1833) [7:40]
Concerto da Camera in A minor, op. 10 no. 1 (1832) [14:18]

Marc-Andrй Hamelin, piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins

Recorded in Govan Town Hall, Glasgow on 2, 3 December 1993
Recording engineer, Philip Hobbs. Recording producer, Andrew Keener



Tracklist:

Nikolai Medtner
(Moscow, January 5, 1880 - London, November 13, 1951)
Piano Concerto no. 1 in C minor, op. 33 (1915-17)
I. Allegro - attacca: [11:52]
II. Theme and Variations - attacca: [13:13]
III. Recapitulation - attacca: [2:32]
IV. Coda : Allegro molto [6:38]
Piano Quintet in C major, op. posth. (1940-43)
I. Molto placido [7:47]
II. Andantino con moto [4:54]
III. Finale : Allegro vivace [11:58]

Dmitri Alexeev, piano
BBC Symphony Orchestra led by Alexander Lazarev on Piano Concerto no. 1
The New Budapest Quartet on Piano Quintet

Recorded between 18 and 25 March, 1994
Recording engineer, Tony Faulkner. Recording producer, Arthur Johnson



Tracklist:

Eugen Francis Charles d’Albert
(Glasgow, April 10, 1864 - Riga, March 3, 1932)
Piano Concerto no. 1 in B minor, op. 2 (1884)
I. MдЯig - attacca: [17:08]
II. Langsam, mit Empfindung - attacca: [9:23]
III. Erstes ZeitmaЯ - attacca: [11:30]
IV. Cadenza - attacca: [2:52] - V. Dasselbe ZeitmaЯ [3:33]
Piano Concerto no. 2 in E major, op. 12 (1946-7)
I. MдЯig bewegt - attacca: [7:30]
II. Langsam - attacca: [6:44]
III. Sehr lebhaft - attacca: [2:13]
IV. ‘Wie vorher’ (crotchet - dotted crotchet) [4:30]

Piers Lane, piano
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Alun Francis

Recorded in Govan Town Hall, Glasgow on 14, 15 May 1994
Recording engineer, Tony Kime. Recording producer, Andrew Keener



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Carl Maria von Weber
Eutin, Holstein, November 18, 1786 - London, June 5, 1826)
Piano Concerto no. 1 in C major, J98 op. 11 (1810)
I. Allegro [8:48]
II. Adagio [4:22]
III. Presto [6:29]
Piano Concerto no. 2 in E flat major, J155 op. 32 (1812)
I. Allegro maestoso [8:56]
II. Adagio [5:40]
III. Rondeau. Presto [6:56]
Konzertstьck in F minor, J282 op. 79 (1821)
I. Larghetto affettuoso - attacca: [5:01]
II. Allegro passionato - attacca: [4:33]
III. Tempo di Marcia - attacca: [1:48]
IV. Piщ mosso - Presto giojoso [4:27]

Nikolai Demidenko, piano
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Sir Charles Mackerras

Recorded in Usher Hall, Edinburgh on 16, 17 April 1994
Recording engineer, Philip Hobbs. Recording producer, Ates Orga

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