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The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: 4candles on Tuesday 31 August 2021, 14:25

Title: Reynaldo Hahn Piano Concerto
Post by: 4candles on Tuesday 31 August 2021, 14:25
Anyone who loves the piano concerto by Reynaldo Hahn may like to hear a new recording of the work is on the way from Warner Classics.

With Shani Diluka (piano) and the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris under Hervé Niquet.

Details here (https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9246872--the-proust-album).
Title: Re: Reynaldo Hahn Piano Concerto
Post by: TerraEpon on Wednesday 01 September 2021, 01:24
What a weird disc.
Title: Re: Reynaldo Hahn Piano Concerto
Post by: semloh on Wednesday 01 September 2021, 05:26
Could you just explain that a bit, please, TerraEpon. Do you mean the choice of music?
Title: Re: Reynaldo Hahn Piano Concerto
Post by: TerraEpon on Wednesday 01 September 2021, 13:17
Yeah, but specifically the instrumentation. I know they were going for a bit of a theme but still, it for sure isn't your average.
Title: Re: Reynaldo Hahn Piano Concerto
Post by: Alan Howe on Wednesday 01 September 2021, 16:50
It's not for me either - too 'bitty'. I'll be sticking with the Hyperion alternative, coupled with Massenet's PC:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7929415--the-romantic-piano-concerto-15-hahn-and-massenet
Title: Re: Reynaldo Hahn Piano Concerto
Post by: dmitterd on Thursday 02 September 2021, 03:35
I agree, it is very 'bitty' - a shame they couldn't have found a rarity to pair with the Hahn PC, as it is such a good work.
Title: Re: Reynaldo Hahn Piano Concerto
Post by: Alan Howe on Thursday 02 September 2021, 11:54
And that's aside from the issue of whether the new recording of the PC is up to the standard of the Hyperion release.
Title: Re: Reynaldo Hahn Piano Concerto
Post by: eschiss1 on Saturday 04 September 2021, 15:28
Is this the work referred to as incomplete concerto on a 2002 Maguelone recording? (Never mind, I see that was a sketch of a cello concerto. Maguelone did record the piano concerto back in 1997, though. Does anyone know how that compares to the Hyperion recording?)
Title: Re: Reynaldo Hahn Piano Concerto
Post by: eschiss1 on Saturday 04 September 2021, 22:04
Now I'm curious how the Maguelone recording came to be (in the same year), when the full score of the concerto is so rare, as described by the author to the notes to the Hyperion recording. Interesting. (Listening to the 1930s recording with Tagliaferro as remastered and streamed on a set of French Piano Concertos now.)