Release Date: 01 May 2015
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571179186
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Description
Volume 65 (have you got them all?) of Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series journeys to Spain and the heart-on-sleeve world there to be found. The Albeniz Concierto fantastico owes much to Schumann and Chopin, albeit with an added drizzle of the Iberian peninsula; the perennially popular Rapsodia espanola, on the other hand, throws all such classical models to the wind.
Granados never actually got round to writing his piano concerto, so our pianist here—Hyperion debutant Melani Mestre—has done it for him. And it’s a romp. The first movement is pretty much ‘echt’, from Granados’ sketches for a putative piano concerto, but thereafter it’s a hugely enjoyable what-if …
Tracklisting
The Brabant Ensemble / Stephen Rice
Steven Isserlis
Takacs Quartet
The Nash Ensemble
MultiPiano Ensemble, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Ivor Bolton
Marc-Andre Hamelin
Marc-Andre Hamelin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Litton
Gothic Voices / Christopher Page
Florian Deuter; Monica Waisman; Harmonie Universelle
Siwan Rhys
Enzo Ferraris, Verona Philharmonic Orchestra
Elisabeth Pion; Arion Baroque Orchestra
Cameron Crozman; Les Violons du Roy
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Jan Willem de Vriend
Geza Anda; Karl Bohm; Wiener Philharmoniker; Philharmonia Orchestra
John Kruse, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Fredrik Burstedt
