Jacob Rosenhain: Klavierkonzert d-moll op.73 auf CD

Meisterliche Orchestrierung und herrliche Melodien
Jacob Rosenhain und Wilhelm Taubert waren Zeitgenossen von Mendelssohn, Chopin und Schumann. Schumann war von Tauberts erstem Klavierkonzert tief beeindruckt, stellte aber zu viele Ähnlichkeiten mit Mendelssohns 1832 veröffentlichtem Klavierkonzert Nr. 1 fest. Dennoch gefiel der graziöse, fast volkstümliche Stil. Das Klavierkonzert Nr. 2 entstand, als Taubert Mitte sechzig war. Das ganze Konzert ist geprägt von Tauberts meisterlicher Orchestrierung mit häufigen Einwürfen von Bläsersoli. Jacob Rosenhain begann seine Laufbahn in Frankfurt am Main und wurde in Paris durch seine Kammermusikabende zu einer prominenten Figur des Musiklebens. Sein Klavierkonzert in eher konservativer Form überzeugt durch herrliche Melodien.

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The Romantic Piano Concerto series continues to surprise and delight with a 51st disc of 19th-century pianistic splendour. This new release includes the two piano concertos by Wilhelm Taubert, as well as one of the two works for piano and orchestra by Jacob Rosenhain. Both composers were near exact contemporaries with Mendelssohn (born 1809), Chopin and Schumann (both 1810), Liszt (1811) and Wagner and Verdi (1813).

Taubert's A major
Concerto was described by Schumann as ›one of the best‹ – he also noted the parallels between it and Mendelssohn's Op 25. But these similarities, however, do not negate the marvellous and distinctive music contained within Taubert's Concerto. Nearly half a century separates Taubert's first Concerto and his Piano Concerto No 2 in A major Op 189 (c1874), and the second Concerto reflects developments in the areas of harmonic expansion, cyclic development, and, of course, increased virtuosity.

Rosenhain wrote two concerted for works for piano and orchestra, an the A minor Concertino Op 30 (probably written in the 1840s, though published later), and the work included on this disc, the Piano Concerto in D minor Op 73. This work is fairly conservative in its form, offering little that had not been heard before. Still, there is much gorgeous and masterful music within its traditional three-movement form.

Howard Shelley directs the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra from the piano; a partnership that has garnered the highest praise for their previous Hyperion recordings.

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»How Howard Shelley manages to play these scores with such conviction and apparent ease while conducting from the keyboard is one of the musical marvels of the age … For those who delight in sparkling virtuoso display, the two outer movements of Rosenhain's Concerto will not disappoint, but it is the slow movement that provides the most oustanding movement of the disc. This beautifully played serene Andante on its own is bewitching enough to make this disc unmissable« (Gramophone)

»Hyperion's Romantic Piano Concertos series, now at Vol 51, is an invaluable archive of music« (Daily Telegraph)

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