The Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 1991-2007 (50CD Box Set)

Artist: 
Various Artists

Product Code: 0034571147017

$299.99

All the most wildly romantic concertos you can think of rolled into one huge pianistic feat’ - Gramophone There are few rivals to match the dizzying ambition of Hyperon’s Romantic Piano Concerto series – in fact, few rivals in classical recording’s entire history. The ambition – to unearth, record and present the great romantic piano concertos of yesteryear – was vast, almost gothic in scale. The series runs to 235 works, 185 of them classified as piano concertos. For dedication, contributions to scholarship and enterprise it breaks all bounds.

Now comes a chance for collectors to collect the whole series across two 50CD boxed sets, one released in April 2026 and the other towards the end of 2026. This first set explores the earlier part of the series, from 1991 to 2007. This covers 130 works, 14 orchestras, 21 conductors, 19 pianists and 59 different composers. The booklet offers introductions from Sir Stephen Hough and Piers Lane, and newly commissioned essays from Andrew Keener (who produced half the series) and project progenitor Mike Spring, whose encyclopaedic knowledge of piano repertoire energised the entire series.

The individual wallets offer up the original album artwork, track listings to the rear. The booklet includes newly compiled indexes of the entire series: by pianist and by composer.

Tracklist

CD 1: MOSZKOWSKI & PADEREWSKI (RPC 1)

Piers Lane · BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Jerzy Maksymiuk

CD 2: MEDTNER 2 & 3 (RPC 2)

Nikolai Demidenko · BBC Scottish SO / Jerzy Maksymiuk

CD 3: MENDELSSOHN DOUBLE CONCERTOS (RPC 3)

Stephen Coombs, Ian Munro · BBC Scottish SO / Jerzy Maksymiuk

CD 4: ARENSKY & BORTKIEWICZ (RPC 4)

Stephen Coombs · BBC Scottish SO / Jerzy Maksymiuk

CD 5: RIMSKY-KORSAKOV & BALAKIREV (RPC 5)

Malcolm Binns · English Northern Phil / David Lloyd-Jones

CD 6: DOHNÁNYI (RPC 6)

Martin Roscoe · BBC Scottish SO / Fedor Glushchenko

CD 7: HENSELT & ALKAN (RPC 7)

Marc-André Hamelin · BBC Scottish SO / Martyn Brabbins

CD 8: MEDTNER 1 & PIANO QUINTET (RPC 8) 

Dmitri Alexeev · BBC Symphony Orchestra / Alexander Lazarev

New Budapest Quartet

CD 9: D’ALBERT (RPC 9)

Piers Lane · BBC Scottish SO / Alun Francis

CD 10: WEBER (RPC 10)

Nikolai Demidenko · SCO / Sir Charles Mackerras

CD 11: SCHARWENKA 4 & SAUER 1 (RPC 11)

Sir Stephen Hough · CBSO / Lawrence Foster

CD 12: PARRY & STANFORD (RPC 12)

Piers Lane · BBC Scottish SO / Martyn Brabbins

CD 13: GLAZUNOV & GOEDICKE (RPC 13)

Stephen Coombs · BBC Scottish SO / Martyn Brabbins

CD 14: LITOLFF 2 & 4 (RPC 14)

Peter Donohoe · Bournemouth Symphony / Andrew Litton

CD 15: MASSENET & HAHN (RPC 15)

Stephen Coombs · BBC Scottish SO / Jean-Yves Ossonce

CD 16: HUSS & SCHELLING (RPC 16)

Ian Hobson BBC Scottish SO / Martyn Brabbins

CD 17: MENDELSSOHN (RPC 17)

Sir Stephen Hough · CBSO / Lawrence Foster

CD 18: MARX & KORNGOLD (RPC 18)

Marc-André Hamelin · BBC Scottish SO / Osmo Vänskä

CD 19: TOVEY & MACKENZIE (RPC 19)

Steven Osborne · BBC Scottish SO / Martyn Brabbins

CD 20: BRÜLL (RPC 20)

Martin Roscoe · BBC Scottish SO / Martyn Brabbins

CD 21: KULLAK & DREYSCHOCK (RPC 21)

Piers Lane · BBC Scottish SO / Niklas Willén

CD 22: BUSONI (RPC 22)

Marc-André Hamelin · CBSO / Sir Mark Elder

CD 23: HOLBROOKE & WOOD (RPC 23)

Hamish Milne · BBC Scottish SO / Martyn Brabbins

CD 24: VIANNA DA MOTTA (RPC 24)

Artur Pizarro · Orquestra Gulbenkian / Martyn Brabbins

CD 25: MACDOWELL (RPC 25)

Seta Tanyel · BBC Scottish SO / Martyn Brabbins

CD 26: LITOLFF 3 & 5 (RPC 26)

Peter Donohoe · BBC Scottish SO / Andrew Litton

CDs 27 & 28: SAINT-SAËNS (RPC 27)

Sir Stephen Hough · CBSO / Sakari Oramo

CD 29: STOJOWSKI (RPC 28)

Jonathan Plowright · BBC Scottish SO / Martyn Brabbins

CD 30: MOSCHELES 2 & 3 (RPC 29)

Howard Shelley · Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

CD 31: LYAPUNOV (RPC 30)

Hamish Milne · BBC Scottish SO / Martyn Brabbins

CD 32: FUCHS & KIEL (RPC 31)

Martin Roscoe · BBC Scottish SO / Martyn Brabbins

CD 33: MOSCHELES 1, 6 & 7 (RPC 32)

Howard Shelley · Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

CD 34: SCHARWENKA 2 & 3 (RPC 33)

Seta Tanyel · Radio Philharmonie Hannover / Tadeusz Strugała

CD 35: PIERNÉ (RPC 34)

Stephen Coombs · BBC Scottish SO / Ronald Corp

CD 36: HERZ 1, 7 & 8 (RPC 35)

Howard Shelley · Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

CD 37: MOSCHELES 4 & 5 (RPC 36)

Howard Shelley · Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

CD 38: NÁPRAVNÍK & BLUMENFELD (RPC 37)

Evgeny Soifertis · BBC Scottish SO / Alexander Titov

CD 39: SCHARWENKA 1 & RUBINSTEIN 4 (RPC 38)

Marc-André Hamelin · BBC Scottish SO / Michael Stern

CD 40: DELIUS & IRELAND (RPC 39)

Piers Lane · Ulster Orchestra / David Lloyd-Jones

CD 41: HERZ 3, 4 & 5 (RPC 40)

Howard Shelley · Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

CD 42: KALKBRENNER 1 & 4 (RPC 41)

Howard Shelley · Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

CD 43: ALNÆS & SINDING (RPC 42)

Piers Lane · Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra / Andrew Litton

CD 44: BENNETT 4 & BACHE (RPC 43)

Howard Shelley · BBC Scottish SO

BONUS ALBUMS

CD 45: CHOPIN 1 & 2

Nikolai Demidenko · Philharmonia Orchestra / Heinrich Schiff

CD 46: TCHAIKOVSKY 1 & SCRIABIN

Nikolai Demidenko · BBC Symphony Orchestra / Alexander Lazarev

CD 47: CHOPIN ORCHESTRAL WORKS

Garrick Ohlsson · Warsaw Philharmonic / Kazimierz Kord

CD 48: BRAHMS 2

Marc-André Hamelin · Dallas Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Litton

CD 49 & 50: RACHMANINOV 1–4

Sir Stephen Hough · Dallas Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Litton