This disc features the greatest of Beethoven’s piano concertos, the “Emperor,” as well as his barely known Romance Cantabile and Rubinstein’s one movement orchestral 'Konzerstück', worth listening to for it’s unusual combination of instruments!
These two wonderful Piano Quintets are written for the unusual combination of four woodwind and piano. Here, Felicja Blumental is joined by select members of London’s New Philharmonia Wind Ensemble, now available on CD for the first time.
Soprano Annette Celine and pianist Christopher Gould perform a selection songs transcribed for voice and piano. Includes Percy Grainger’s solo piano arrangement of Fauré’s ‘Après un rêve’. Other composers on this disc include Cui, Granados and Obradors.