ANTON RUBINSTEIN : Solo Piano Music (Leslie Howard) 2CD (1997) Dyad Series | APE (image+.cue), lossless

‘Warmly recommended’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘Two exceedingly well-filled discs give us the cream of Rubinstein's piano music, beginning with the delicious Melody in F, his most famous composition’ (Classic CD)
«Les qualitées réclamées par Rubinstein sont comparables: panache, fougue, enthousiasme, puissance. Leslie Howard les possède à un haut degré. Il y a joint une délicatesse du toucher et une facilité pour un timbre moelleux qui font merveille dans les pages de caractère, alors qu'un rubato discret confère à la musique ce frémissent du coeur sans lequel il n'est pas de véritable romantisme» (Diapason, France) Reviews Hyperion

Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894)
CD1
1-2. Deux Mélodies Op 3 (1852) (7:05)
3-4. Deux Morceaux Op 30 (10:42)
5. Deuxième Barcarolle In A Minor, Op 45bis (1857) 6:32
6. Troisième Barcarolle In G Minor, Op 50 No 3bis (c1858) 3:43
7. Quatriéme Barcarolle In G Major (c1870) 5:11
8-11. Fantaisie In E Minor Op 77 (1866)    (44:45)
CD2
1-3. Trois Caprices Op 21 (1855) (13:38)
4-6. Trois Sérénades Op 22 (1855) (19:42)
7-19. Thème Et Variations Op 88 (1871) (42:07)
Credits :
Piano – Leslie Howard
Cover artwork: Interior of the drawing room in the house of Baron Stieglitz in St Petersburg by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov (c1787-1848)

RUBINSTEIN : Piano Concerto No 4 In D Minor ♦ SCHARWENKA : Piano Concerto No 1 In B Flat Major (Marc-André Hamelin · BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra • Michael Stern) (2005) Serie The Romantic Piano Concerto – 38 | FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Is there really another volume in Hyperion's series The Romantic Piano Concerto? Are there really any more unrecorded Romantic piano concertos? Apparently. Here are Xaver Scharwenka's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor and Anton Rubinstein's Piano Concerto No. 4. But that's not the amazing thing. The amazing thing is that Scharwenka's First and Rubinstein's Fourth are both first-rate, second-rank works that are both given first-rate performances by virtuoso Marc-André Hamelin with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Michael Stern. Scharwenka's exuberant three-movement B flat minor Concerto has the distinction of having all three movements marked Allegro and Hamelin handles Scharwenka's handfuls of sixty-fourth notes with nonchalant flamboyance. Rubinstein's dramatic three-movement D minor Concerto has the standard central Andante and Hamelin masters Scharwenka's monumental chords and massive octaves with insouciant aplomb. Stern and the BBC Scottish Symphony support Hamelin through the ill-scoring of Scharwenka and the over-scoring of Rubinstein and Hyperion captures their performances in deep, detailed sound. As long as Hyperion can continue to releases discs of such high quality, may The Romantic Piano Concerto never end. James Leonard

Franz Xaver Scharwenka (1850-1924)
                        
Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor Op 32 [27'55]

Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894)                        
Piano Concerto No 4 in D minor Op 70 [31'16]

Credits :
Conductor – Michael Stern
Leader – Bernard Docherty
Orchestra – BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Piano – Marc-André Hamelin

ANTON RUBINSTEIN : Fantaisie Op. 84; Concertstück Op. 113 (1990) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

ANTON RUBINSTEIN : Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (1992) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

ANTON RUBINSTEIN : Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4 (1991) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

ANTON RUBINSTEIN : Piano Concerto No. 5; Caprice russe (1994) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

ANTON RUBINSTEIN : Sonatas Nos. 1 & 3, Opp. 12 & 41 (1990) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

ANTON RUBINSTEIN : Sonata No. 2 ; Sonata No. 4 (1990) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless