Since you are interested in Hummel: Piano Concertos in A and F major / Theme and Variations in F major, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
W. A. MOZART
Divertimento in E flat major / Prelude & Fugues for String Trio Hermitage String Trio [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] "If you do not have a recording of the Divertimento already here is an ideal opportunity to do so, and I am sure that in so doing many hours of supreme musical pleasure are guaranteed." (MusicWeb Feb 2011) |
FAURE
Piano Quartets Nos 1 & 2 / Nocturne No 4 Kathryn Stott (piano) / The Hermitage String trio [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] "Stott and the Heritage Trio imbue the hushed sections with a sense of eerie menace, refusing to smooth the edges, which is certainly not to say they are rough and ready elsewhere...the exquisite account by Stott of the fourth Nocturne is the icing o |
HUMMEL
L'Enchantment d'Oberon, Op. 116 / Piano Concerto in A major / etc London Mozart Players, Howard Shelley (piano & conductor) [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] 'Shelley's sparkling playing is winning… As ever in this Chandos series, the first-rate recording is clear and vivid, warm and full.' Gramophone.. |
JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Hummel: Ballet Suites / Twelve Waltzes and Coda London Mozart Players, Howard Shelley (piano/director) [ Chandos / CD - released 25/Apr/2007 ] "Howard Shelley's light touch, fresh and colourful orchestral playing, and excellent recording, make this very well worth hearing on its own account, not simply as a rediscovered rarity." BBC Music |
JOHANN CHRISTIAN CANNABICH
Symphonies London Mozart Players / Matthias Bamert [ Chandos Contemporaries of Mozart / CD - released 10/Aug/2007 ] 'As in the previous issues of Chandos' Contemporaries of Mozart series, Matthias Bamert and the London Mozart Players provide polished and stylish performances.' BBC Music Magazine |
HUMMEL
Complete Piano Trios (Rec 1980s) Trio Parnassus [ MDG / 2 CD - released 20/May/2007 ] "This is a splendid set covering some of Hummel's most rewarding music in performances that cannot be improved upon." (MusicWeb Feb 2005) |
W.A. MOZART
Requiem Mass, K.626 Yvonne Kenny (sop) Sarah Walker (mezzo) William Kendall (tenor) / Choir of St John's College, Cambridge / English Chamber Orchestra/ George Guest [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] 'George Guests new recording is distinguished by its deliberate tempos but also its very powerful rhythmic momentum and an expressive intensity of a kind one might not expect from a conductor and choir who belong to the English cathedral tradition.... |