Romantic Piano Concertos

PONTI PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA MAGA ROSE BERLIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SCHMIDT-GERTENBACH KELLER BERLIN SYMPHONY ORCHES

Including over 60 composers and spanning the entire Romantic period, this impressive 40 CD set aims to bring some of the more obscure piano concertos of that era into the limelight. Although some of the earlier composers in this set can be technically called ‘classical,’ it is in them that we see the first stirrings of Romanticism. The earliest concertos from Clementi and Stamitz contain those initial leanings away from traditional Classicism. On the other end of the spectrum, we have neo-Romantic composers like Samuel Barber, who is a celebrated 20th century composer, but who also uses many Romantic stylistic elements in his compositions. Of course, the virtuosic well known Romantic composers are included, like Liszt and Thalberg. During the age of Romanticism, the concept of a virtuoso had only been explored by violinists such as Paganini, so these composers were some of the first to bring that passion and skill into the world of piano.

Price: $139.98