Paul Wee, Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Michael Collins - von Henselt/Bronsart von Schellendorff: Piano Concertos (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 59:07 minutes | 2,16 GB
Classical | Label: BIS, Official Digital Download
After three solo recordings, virtuoso pianist Paul Wee brings us two forgotten concertos from the Romantic period with the Swedish ChamberOrchestra conducted by Michael Collins. Premiered by Clara Schumann under the baton of Felix Mendelssohn, Adolph von Henselt's Concertoin F minor was eventually performed by the greatest virtuosos of the 19th and 20th centuries. It has, however, inexplicably disappeared from therepertoire despite it's obvious qualities: soaring melodies and tender lyricism, colourful orchestration, dramatic intensity across it's three movements and piano writing of astound inginventiveness and brilliance.