Having found unexpected success with its series of unknown Romantic piano concertos, Hyperion launched a similar series focusing on the Classical period with this release in 2014. It's a very auspicious start. Unlike many of the figures in the Romantic series, Czech composer Jan Ladislav Dussek was ahead of his time, not behind it. He was one of the few contemporaries whom the notoriously cantankerous Beethoven seems to have admired, and the piano concerto was arguably his strongest genre (he demanded from English piano ...
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Having found unexpected success with its series of unknown Romantic piano concertos, Hyperion launched a similar series focusing on the Classical period with this release in 2014. It's a very auspicious start. Unlike many of the figures in the Romantic series, Czech composer Jan Ladislav Dussek was ahead of his time, not behind it. He was one of the few contemporaries whom the notoriously cantankerous Beethoven seems to have admired, and the piano concerto was arguably his strongest genre (he demanded from English piano maker John Broadwood several of the innovations Beethoven later exploited). This release from prolific pianist Howard Shelley (also featured in the Romantic series) offers a wide chronological spread in its selection of three of Dussek's 18 piano concertos. The Piano Concerto in C major, Op. 29, of 1795, is right in line with Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in the same key that came along shortly aftterward, but most striking is the Piano Concerto in E flat major, Op. 70, of 1810,...
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