BRÜLL : Piano Concerto No 1, Op 10 (First Recording) Piano Concerto No 2, Op 24 • Andante And Allegro, Op 88 (First Recording) (Martin Roscoe · BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra • Martyn Brabbins) (1999) Serie The Romantic Piano Concerto – 20 | FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Volume 20 of our Romantic Piano Concerto series features Ignaz Brüll's two Piano Concertos and the Andante and Allegro, Op 88. The first of the concertos was amazingly composed when Brüll was just 15, the second when he was 22.

A very well respected pianist, Brüll was noted for his sympathetic insight into the essence of a work, which only a virtuoso who is a creative artist can possess. Colleagues such as Franz Liszt, Anton Rubenstein and Clara Schumann, as well as many critics, regarded him as one of the leading exponents of his craft. As a composer, he stood firmly within the tradition of the conservative, Classical school. In the language of the time, this tradition was described as being 'in the direction of Schumann and Mendelssohn'. Its most distinguishing features were a clear awareness of form based on Classical models, and a measured form of expression which shunned excess and exaggeration.

The Andante and Allegro and First Piano Concerto here receive their first recordings. Hyperion

Ignaz Brüll (1846-1907)
        
Piano Concerto No 1 in F major Op 10 [27'03]
        
Piano Concerto No 2 in C major Op 24 [29'29]

Credits :
Conductor – Martyn Brabbins
Leader – Bernard Docherthy
Orchestra – BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Piano – Martin Roscoe