Hummel: Piano Concertos in A and F major / Theme and Variations in F major

'And it receives eloquent advocacy from Howard Shelley, with his aristocratic command of the glittering Keyboard pyrotechnics'.
Fanfare

"As ever, Howard Shelley proves a supremely eloquent advocate of the composer, with his refined, shapely phrasing, crystalline textures and aristocratic command of the glittering keyboard."
***** Five Stars BBC Music Magazine (June 2001)

'Hummel is a fine composer who merits more that a listen or two. And here, as performed by Howard Shelley, the case is eloquently made that he is truly beyond merely that.'
- Fanfare

This is the fourth recording in a growing series of Hummel concertos carefully researched by Howard Shelley and Chandos. They have become reference recordings due to the excellent performances and recordings they have been given, and the ground-breaking scholarship that reconstructs many of them to their original form.

The London Mozart Players is Britain's longest-established chamber orchestra. Founded in 1949 by Harry Blech (now the orchestra's Conductor Laureate), the London Mozart Players has a worldwide reputation for its outstanding and insightful performances and recordings of its core repertoire - the music of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven plus other composers of the late- eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. The London Mozart Players also regularly plays music of this century and has commissioned and given the first performances of many works by British composers. Since 1993 Matthias Bamert has been the orchestra's Music Director and Howard Shelley is Principal Guest Conductor.