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Herz: Piano Concerto No 2 & other works

Herz: Piano Concerto No 2 & other works

Howard Shelley (piano), Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Howard Shelley (conductor)

CDA68100

Henri Herz—as much a phenomenon in 1830s Paris and for the ensuing decades in America as he has been derided since the curtain fell on his world of sparkle—wrote eight piano concertos. One is lost, so it is for the final time in this mini series that Howard Shelley and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra here get to put on their finest dancing shoes and perform the Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor (the one with which Herz conquered America in 1846) and three extended fantasies.

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