Taubert/Rosenhain: Piano Concertos
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WILHELM TAUBERT / JACOB ROSENHAIN
Taubert/Rosenhain: Piano Concertos
Howard Shelley (piano/conductor) / Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
[ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 51 / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 20 August 2010
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The Romantic Piano Concerto series continues to surprise and delight with a 51st disc of 19th-century pianistic splendour. This new releases includes the two piano concertos by Wilhelm Taubert, as well as one of the two works for piano and orchestra by Jacob Rosenhain. Both composers were near exact contemporaries with Mendelssohn (born 1809), Chopin and Schumann (both 1810), Liszt (1811) and Wagner and Verdi (1813).
Taubert's A major Concerto was described by Schumann as 'one of the best' - he also noted the parallels between it and Mendelssohn's Op 25. But these similarities, however, do not negate the marvellous and distinctive music contained within Taubert's Concerto. Nearly half a century separates Taubert's first concerto and his Piano Concerto No 2 in A major Op 189 (c1874), and the second concerto reflects developments in the areas of harmonic expansion, cyclic development, and, of course, increased virtuosity.
Rosenhain wrote two concerted for works for piano and orchestra, an the A minor Concertino Op 30 (probably written in the 1840s, though published later), and the work included on this disc, the Piano Concerto in D minor Op 73. This work is fairly conservative in its form, offering little that had not been heard before. Still, there is much gorgeous and masterful music within its traditional three-movement form.
Howard Shelley directs the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra from the piano; a partnership that has garnered the highest praise for their previous Hyperion recordings.
'How Howard Shelley manages to play these scores with such conviction and apparent ease while conducting from the keyboard is one of the musical marvels of the age … for those who delight in sparkling virtuoso display, the two outer movements of Rosenhain's concerto will not disappoint, but it is the slow movement that provides the most oustanding movement of the disc. This beautifully played serene Andante on its own is bewitching enough to make this disc unmissable' (Gramophone)
'Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concertos series, now at Vol 51, is an invaluable archive of music' (The Daily Telegraph)
'"Thank goodness for Hyperion!" was my initial reaction after hearing this excellent new CD in its extraordinarily successful Romantic Piano Concerto series … who else can one turn to for the revelation of previously unknown music which demonstrably does not deserve the neglect into which it has fallen? … this is a brilliant CD of eminently worthwhile music … Shelley directs from the keyboard and, frankly, I don't know how he does it: some of the tempos in the outer movements of these works are pretty hair-raising, with the pianist kept hard at it-but the orchestra is with its highly gifted player / director all the way, and ensemble is first-rate … the result is enormously impressive-here is very good music, superbly played by these outstanding musicians, very well recorded and brought to us by a company whose very name is a byword for excellence' (International Record Review)
Tracks:
Rosenhain:
Piano Concerto in D minor, Op. 73
Taubert:
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 18
Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, Op. 189
