Elmas: Piano Concertos

If the warmly Romantic bloom on these concertos suggests the spirit of an earlier generation—both works date from the 1880s—the music of Stéphan Elmas retains its own distinctive voice, a voice heard to best advantage in Howard Shelley's persuasive accounts.

CDA68319  73 minutes 51 seconds
‘The redoubtable Howard Shelley once again proves himself the piano world’s St Jude: the passionate advocate of the Romantic concerto repertoire’s lost causes. The pianist’s nuanced and sweeping phras ...
BBC Music Magazine
‘This is the 82nd issue in Hyperion’s wonderful 'The Romantic Piano Concerto' series; many of these discs have given me a lot of pleasure, and this one contains melodious works from the pen of a compo ...