Hummel: L'Enchantment d'Oberon Piano Orchestral & Concertos Chandos

Hummel: L'Enchantment d'Oberon

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CHAN 10374

Hummel: L'Enchantment d'Oberon

Running Time: 69:23

CD UPC: 0095115137420

Release Date: March 2006
Originally recorded in 2005

Composer (1778-1837)
Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Orchestra
London Mozart Players

Solo Piano piano/director
Howard Shelley

Venue
St Silas The Martyr, Kentish Town, London

Producer
Rachel Smith

Engineer
Jonathan Cooper

Engineer (Assistant)
Michael Common

Genre:
Piano
Orchestral & Concertos

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JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL

(1778-1837)

L'Enchantment d'Oberon, Op. 116

17:33

Fantaisie caractéristique

Allegro energico - Larghetto - Allegro non troppo

premiere recording

Le Retour à Londres, Op. 127

14:26

Introduction and Grand Rondeau Brillant for the Piano Forte

To Mr Ignace Moscheles

Introduction. Largo -

3:30

Allegretto vivace

10:55

Piano Concerto in A major

28:30

in A-Dur - en la majeur

Allegro moderato

13:53

Romanza. Adagio

6:02

III

Rondo

8:33

O du lieber Augustin

8:57

Edited by Fritz Stein

Eight variations and coda

Allegretto un poco andante - Allegro molto

69:41

Orchestra: London Mozart Players

27 & 28 July 2005

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Reviews

Artistic Quality 9 Sound Quality 9 This program is simply delicious As with other releases in this series, Howard Shelley plays Hummel with elegance and flair. Much of this music, particularly in the shorter concert works, is very brilliant and highly decorative, but Shelley never makes you feel as though it consists of empty note-spinning. The London Mozart Players accompany sensitively and with aplomb. A good time was clearly had by all, including the engineers, who provide vivid sonics."

David Hurwitz - classicstoday.com - March 2012

Certainly, if you have a taste for this music, you‘ll find this a welcome release

Fanfare

Shelley…is outstanding in this music, synthesizing the classical and romantic elements perfectly. A natural Mozartian, he allies his poise and clarity to a fearless technique, and absorbs Hummel’s most ostentatious demands into the musical fabric, giving the decorative solo part the necessary grace and piquancy.

Gramophone ‘Critics’ Choice’ of January 2000 on CH

Collectors of the series can rest assured that this latest volume fully sustains the high standard already set. Shelley couldn’t play a dull or ugly note if his life depended on it, so all those long-spun, mellifluous cantilenas flow with a meltingly lovely tone, and when the music begins to dance and goes into note-overdrive, he makes everything sound vital and compelling, never merely ‘notey’. Judging by the London Mozart Players’ devoted and foot-tappingly accurate playing throughout this series, Shelley is also no mean baton-waver. Recommended with the greatest enthusiasm.

Howard Shelley’s elegant disc with the LMP, which includes the premiere of the jaunty Le Retour à Londres, offers a fair survey of a composer caught between the disciplines of Classical style and the rebellion of Romanticism.

Independent on Sunday

All these pieces, plus the purely orchestral variations on the tune of ‘O du lieber Augustin’ (which curiously throws in a ‘Turkish’ percussion ensemble), are vividly performed by the London Mozart Players, while pianist Howard Shelley throws off Hummel’s copious cascades of notes with appropriate panache.

BBC Music Magazine

Howard Shelley has been systematically recording Hummel’s works for piano and orchestra for Chandos. Each one has been highly rated in these pages and this one is no different. The recording is superb, the notes are good, and the playing is outstanding.

American Record Guide

Shelley’s gifts of agility and articulation mean he can make such decorative writing a delight. Even if you might dismiss much of this as mere note spinning, Shelley’s sparkling playing is winning… As ever in this Chandos series, the first-rate recording is clear and vivid, warm and full.

Gramophone

…this heartlifting disc will delight more than just lovers of piano virtuosity

The Observer

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