Piano Concerto in A flat / Concertino in G major / Gesellschafts-Rondo

'…unfailing expertise by Howard Shelley… The recordings are exceptionally well balanced, the acoustic pleasingly spacious.''
Gramophone

"These are decorous rarities played with an assured brilliance and affection. Hummel's Mozartian rather than Chopinesque bias declares itself most obviously in his Op-73 Concertino, though even here the figuration has a recognisably Hummelian froth and sparkle.
Too charming to be vacuous, such surface brio has little in common with Mozart's depth and subtlety, and for music of greater romantic range and ambition we turn to the A-flat major Concerto, with its fuller scoring and lavishly decorated solo part. Lovers of a fine-spun, operatic cantilena will warm to the central 'Romanze'. The Gesellschafts Rondo commences in solemn Adagio vein before turning to a bustling and ceremonious Vivace. It may be that Hummel 'puffed, blew and perspired' when he played but he won the admiration of Chopin (a hard master to please) and his style is infectious when projected with such unfailing expertise by Howard Shelley in his dual role as pianist and conductor. The Chandos recordings are exceptionally well balanced."
(Gramophone Classical Music Guide)