JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Hummel: Ballet Suites / Twelve Waltzes and Coda London Mozart Players, Howard Shelley (piano/director) [ Chandos / CD - released 25/Apr/2007 ] "Howard Shelley's light touch, fresh and colourful orchestral playing, and excellent recording, make this very well worth hearing on its own account, not simply as a rediscovered rarity." BBC Music |
GEORG BENDA
Benda: Piano Concertos Howard Shelley (piano/conductor) / London Mozart Players [ Hyperion The Classical Piano Concerto Vol 8 / CD - released 1/Oct/2021 ] 'It's almost a commonplace to remark upon Shelley's unstinting advocacy of all‑but-forgotten and sometimes rather inconsequential music. That's to do Benda a disservice, however … where these works really score … is in the slow movements' Gramophone |
SIR LENNOX BERKELEY
Berkeley: Piano Concerto,Op. 29 in B flat major / Berkeley, Michael-Gethsemane Fragment; Four Poems of St Teresa of Avila, Op. 27 Catherine Wyn-Rogers (contralto) Celia Craig (cor anglais) Howard Shelley (piano) / BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Richard Hickox [ Chandos Berkeley Edition Vol 5 / CD - released 6/Dec/2004 ] "This eloquent father-and-son series restores the scintillating concerto." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (February 2005) |
FRANK BRIDGE
Orchestral Music Vol 3 (Incls 'Coronation March' & 'Phantasm') Howard Shelley (piano) / BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 8/Dec/2003 ] "The performances under Hickox are as authoritative as ever." (The Guardian) |
ALUN HODDINOTT / FRANK BRIDGE / E.J. MOREAN / ALAN RAWSTHORNE / etc
British Piano Concertos David Wilde, Philip Fowke, Malcolm Binns, Howard Shelley, Peter Wallfisch (piano) / London Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, New Philharmonia, etc [ Lyrita / 4 CD Box Set - released 25/Jun/2015 ] "A set of 'British Piano Concertos' compiled from the Lyrita catalogue is a very tempting proposition…[the] sound is consistently excellent, the notes are informative and at a budget price, it's an extremely attractive way of acquiring a lot of... |
CLEMENTI
Capriccios & Variations Howard Shelley (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2011 ] "Even the slightest, most trivial pieces are enhanced by Howard Shelley's brisk tempos, and he's served by an infallible technique, from virtuoso finger-dexterity to deeply expressive, spacious reflection elsewhere." (Five Stars BBC Music) |
ERICH KORNGOLD
Korngold: Cello Concerto, Op. 37 / Piano Concerto, Op. 17 / Symphonic Serende Op 39 Peter Dixon (cello) / Howard Shelley (piano) / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra / Matthias Bamert [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] "The works on this disc, another Chandos mid-price re-issue, cover a wide time span, and is most desirable for the inclusion of the splendid Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, and even more so for the masterly Symphonic Serenade, a 1947 work for... |
CLARA SCHUMANN
Clara Schumann: Piano Concerto & works by Hiller, Herz & Kalkbrenner Howard Shelley (piano & conductor) / Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 78 / CD - released 29/Mar/2019 ] "All told, another worthy entry in Hyperion's valuable Romantic Piano Concerto series." ClassicsToday |
CLEMENTI
Complete Piano Sonatas Vol 1 Howard Shelley (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2008 ] 'Listening to this opener in Howard Shelley's complete cycle, recorded on a pristine-sounding modern piano, it is hard to imagine anyone else ever making them sound better … Shelley reveals this by treating each and every one of these works with the... |
CLEMENTI
Complete Piano Sonatas Vol 2 Howard Shelley (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2008 ] |
CLEMENTI
Complete Piano Sonatas Vol 3 Howard Shelley (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 20/May/2009 ] 'Shelley's third volume makes abundantly clear that Clementi at best was an outstanding composer … He's well served by lively and immediate recording' (BBC Music Magazine) |
CLEMENTI
Complete Piano Sonatas Vol 4 Howard Shelley (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2009 ] Howard Shelley's splendid series of Clementi's complete piano sonatas continues with a fourth volume containing some of the composer's most important works. |
CLEMENTI
Complete Piano Sonatas Vol 5 Howard Shelley (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 20/May/2010 ] "...there is nothing to reproach [Shelley] for in any of these performances, which, as ever in this series, are clearly played, intelligently detailed and perfectly recorded." Gramophone Magazine: Editor's Choice - July 2010 |
CLEMENTI
Complete Piano Sonatas Vol 6 Howard Shelley (piano) [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2008 ] 'This is a most attractive and sparkling account on Clement's final sonatas and brings to a satisfying conclusion Howard Shelley's survey of Clementi… the sound captured on the recording more than lives up to expectations' (International Record Review) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: The Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol. 1 Howard Shelley (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] "it's good to see Howard Shelley embarking on a six-volume reappraisal of these works, so often seen as lacking the depth of Chopin and the fire of Liszt. Fans of fireworks won't be disappointed though...With playing of this quality this is going to... |
MENDELSSOHN
The Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol. 2 Howard Shelley (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jun/2014 ] Shelley here presents the second instalment of a six-volume set of Mendelssohn's complete solo piano music-perhaps the least well-known part of the composer's repertoire. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: The Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol. 3 Howard Shelley (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Oct/2015 ] "Mendelssohn and Howard Shelley are a musical marriage made in heaven. Stylish and delectably light-fingered, Shelley makes a flawless case in Vol 3 of his [Complete Solo Piano Music of Mendelssohn]…if anyone can persuade us of Mendelssohn's quality |
MENDELSSOHN
The Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol. 4 Howard Shelley (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 31/Dec/2015 ] The Op 35 set of Preludes and Fugues is the most substantial single opus Mendelssohn wrote for solo piano, a mark of his reverence for the mighty Bach. |
RACHMANINOV
Complete Songs Vol.3 (Incls 'Vocalise') Joan Rodgers (soprano) Maria Popescu contralto) Alexandre Naoumenko (tenor) Sergei Leiferkus (baritone) Howard Shelley (piano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) |
CHARLES GOUNOD
Gounod: The complete works for pedal piano & orchestra Roberto Prosseda (pedal piano) / Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Howard Shelley [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 62 / CD - released 20/Oct/2013 ] "Prosseda seems to have full command of his unwieldy instrument and manages to make Gounod's music sing and dance in a lively fashion. Howard Shelley, who trades his piano for the podium, is an able accompanist" (AudAud.com) |