Since you are interested in Bowen: Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 4, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
VIANNA da MOTTA
Vianna ds Motta: Piano Concerto in A major / Fantasia DramAItica / etc Arthur Pizarro (piano) / Orquestra Gulbenkian / Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 24 / CD - released 10/Nov/2000 ] 'To hear Pizarro is always a pleasure…lyrical phrasing wrapped in one of the most entrancing and expressive pianissimos of any pianist' - International Record Review |
FRANCIS EDWARD BACHE / STERNDALE BENNETT
Bache / Sterndale Bennett: Piano Concertos Howard Shelley (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto Vol 43 / CD - released 2/Nov/2007 ] "This recording demands recognition for three reasons. Firstly that the best of early nineteenth century music holds up well against virtually anything written elsewhere. Secondly that Sterndale Bennett and Bache are composers who are totally worthy... |
ANTON RUBINSTEIN / XAVER SCHARWENKA
Rubinstein/Scharwenka: Piano Concerto No.4 / Piano Concerto No.1 Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Michael Stern, conductor [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 38 / CD - released 2/Oct/2005 ] "This splendidly engineered disc is a crown jewel both in Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concerto series and in Hamelin's standard-setting discography. Bravo!" (10/10 ClassicsToday) |
JOSEPH KORNGOLD / JOSEPH MARX
Korngold: Piano Concerto / Marx: Romantisches Klavierkonzert in E Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano) / Scottish Symphony, Vanska [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 18 / CD - released 20/Jun/2000 ] GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE - 'All the most wildly romantic concertos you can think of rolled into one huge pianistic feat' (Gramophone) |
FERDINAND HILLER
Hiller: Piano Concertos Nos 1-3 Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Howard Shelley (piano & conductor) [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto Vo 45 / CD - released 30/Apr/2008 ] "The indefatigable Shelley puts us in his debt again by uncovering these gems." (Editor's Choice Gramophone June 2008) |
BENJAMIN DALE
Piano Music Danny Driver (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jun/2010 ] The monumental Piano Sonata in D minor was composed by a young Benjamin Dale while he was still a student at the Royal Academy of Music. Dale's contemporaries included the burgeoning composer-pianists Arnold Bax and York Bowen. |
MILY BALAKIREV
Balakirev: Piano Sonata & other works Danny Driver (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] "Bravo to Hyperion for championing this music and to Driver for playing it with such sensitivity, polish and élan" (The Daily Telegraph) |
ERIK CHISHOLM
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Danny Driver (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rory Macdonald [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "[Chishom's First Concerto is] full of provocative rhythm and utterly devoid of cliche. His second is even more elaborate, drawing its inspiration from the beguiling ragas of Hindustan, their evocative intervals and sensuous, twisting melodies... |
NAPRAVNIK / BLUMENFELD
Works for Piano and Orchestra Evgeny Soifertis (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Alexander Titov, conductor [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 37 / CD - released 10/Aug/2005 ] 'The Concerto Symphonique is a perky, extrovert piano concerto, full of nifty passage-work, if light on musical substance, and The Fantaisie Russe, full of Lisztian flourishes and apparently much admired by Tchaikovsky, is based on three Russian folk... |
SERGEI LYAPUNOV
Lyapunov: Piano Concerto No 1, Op 4 / Rhapsody on Ukrainian Themes, Op 28 / Piano Concerto No 2, Op 38 Hamish Milne (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 30 / CD - released 18/Oct/2002 ] 'Yet another programme that makes incomprehensible the narrow choice of 19th-century piano concertos heard in our concert halls today' (BBC Music Magazine) |