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| 1. Piano Concerto In F Minor, Op. 16: Allegro Patetico - Religioso - Reprise |
| 2. Piano Concerto in F Minor Op.16: Larghetto |
| 3. Piano Concerto in F Minor Op.16: Allegro Agitato |
| 4. Variations De Concert Op.11: Introduzione (Larghetto ma non troppo) |
| 5. Variations De Concert Op.11: Theme (Moderato) |
| 6. Variations De Concert Op.11: Variation 1 (Grazioso assai) |
| 7. Variations De Concert Op.11: Variation 2 (Un pocco Più lento e sostenuto) |
| 8. Variations De Concert Op.11: Variation 3 (Scherzando) |
| 9. Variations De Concert Op.11: Variation 4 (Con fuoco e pomposo) |
| 10. Variations De Concert Op.11: Variation 5 (Vivace ma non troppo) |
| 11. Variations De Concert Op.11: Adagio - Cadenza |
| 12. Variations De Concert Op.11: Finale (Allegro vivace) |
| 13. Concerto Da Camera in C Sharp Minor Op.10 No.2: Allegro moderato |
| 14. Concerto Da Camera in C Sharp Minor Op.10 No.2: Adagio |
| 15. Concerto Da Camera in C Sharp Minor Op.10 No.2: Tempo 1 |
| 16. Concerto Da Camera In A Minor Op.10 No.1: Allegro moderato |
| 17. Concerto Da Camera In A Minor Op.10 No.1: Adagio |
| 18. Concerto Da Camera In A Minor Op.10 No.1: Rondo: Allegro |
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Review
GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE / CRITICS' CHOICE 'The phenomenal playing and superb musicianship of Marc-André Hamelin whose account of the staggeringly difficult Henselt Concerto is quite breathtaking. A thoroughly enjoyable disc well worth exploring'. --Gramophone
Best of the Year. --BBC Music Magazine
'An admirable disc for all lovers of bravura virtuoso piano writing'. --CDReview
Best of the Year. --BBC Music Magazine
'An admirable disc for all lovers of bravura virtuoso piano writing'. --CDReview
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is the first CD review that I ever wrote, and it is bound to be the last for some time to come. I always find it hard to explain why some recording completely carries me away, while another recording may leave me untouched. With the Henselt concerto, this is different. I have well over 500 CDs in my collection, mostly solo piano and piano concerto recordings. The Henselt concerto stands out for several reasons. If you want to delight in the full expressive range of a grand piano, Henselt is your composer. Moreover, the sheer energy in the last movement is breathtaking, even after very many hearings, especially as it comes after a slow movement with exquisite lyrical qualities. The orchestral writing is of first rank, too. If the Brahms concertos, or Hummel's, or Tchaikovsky's are among your favourites, this CD is bound to give you another concerto you will savour. The Alkan concertos are sublime, the recording is excellent.
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Neither Henselt nor Alkan are particularly well known, but both were excellent pianists, wrote exceptionally difficult music and had the misfortune to be overshadowed by their more illustrious contemporaries, namely Chopin and Liszt. The two works by Alkan are more like concertinos than concertos and tend towards the style of Mendelssohn and Weber. They are technically difficult, but Marc-Andre Hamelin is more than up to the task. Henselt's concerto is a real 'hum-dinger' of a piece and is the complete antithesis of (say) a Mozart concerto in that the piano is not playing 'in concert' with the orchestra. This is an out-and-out battle, a fight to the death, with the forces of the orchestra on one side opposing the piano on the other. It is a very exciting, dramatic and full-blooded romantic work with dynamics ranging from ppp to ffff. Here, I think Hamelin's playing style is not quite appropriate. Although he is technically excellent, he is just too refined and too accurate. This piece needs a 'dirty' player that brings out the blood and guts, something that is captured in recordings by the pianist Raymond Lewenthal. In summary it is well worth getting this recording as the works are unusual and well performed but the Henselt is let down by playing that is 'too good'.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
A "fun concerto"!
26 April 2000
Format:Audio CD
I just read a comment on one of my favourite pianoconcerto's, the one from Henselt. The writer referred to it as "a fun concerto with no profundity". I dont agree to that! I love its warm, dark, romantic flows of music. Its an exeptinal Romantic concerto, and if you happen to know more other "unknown concerto's" from the Romantic age, you have to agree that this is not a fun concerto, but a serious outburst of feelings. I know three performances: by Ponti, Lewenthal, and the last by Hamelin, which is a very beautifull one. I still curse the day that I did nit notice an opportuntity to hear the cocerto in reality by Ponti, in The Hague, Holland (only ten minutes by train from the place where I lived then). The critic the day after wrote about "a shamefull imitation of Chopin", something I hope to learn more about one day, because I do not get the point of what he meaned by that. Because it is an unique, beatifull concerto, and it should be performed much more, also in the concert-hall of today. But where are the new adventurous pianists who dare to do this?
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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7 Dec 2000
Format:Audio CD
This disc is among the finest, if not the finest, of Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto series. (Most) all credit, of course, is due to the pianist, Marc Andre Hamelin, who, in his phenomenal technical abilities and superb musicianship, delivers astonishingly dexterous, breathtaking, highly persuasive, commited performances of each of these compositions staggeringly unforgiving and formidable difficulties, written to be so well concealed that they become almost transparent to the ear... A thoroughly enjoyable disc!
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Rarities Given Superlative Performances!
6 July 1999
Format:Audio CD
This is music which has slipped through the cracks! The Henselt used to be in many pianist's repertoires but not too many pianists were up to its heavy demands! Hamelin is well equipped to handle them, though. This is just a fun concerto, with no attempt at profundity. The difficulties are not evident to the listener. The score is more telling, but actually trying to play this concerto explains why the work is so hard to play. The Alkan pieces have not been familiar because they are so small-and now is a good time for them to come back, for the 2nd Concerto in C-Sharp Minor is a beauty and it only lasts 7 minutes! Sound is a little one-dimensional, but warm. The performances as always are excellent!
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