Composer and conductor, pianist and pedagogue: Aloys Schmitt was respected by his peers and largely forgotten by posterity. As so often in this series, the three works recorded here will have listeners questioning that posthumous neglect.
‘No pianist today is more steeped in this idiom than Howard Shelley, who, true to form, dispatches both concertos with mingled flamboyance and limpid grace. Potentially routine passagework is sparklin ...
BBC Music Magazine
‘Howard Shelley is a suave advocate for Schmitt, alive to the humour of some of the twists and turns in his music and prepared to exaggerate key moments as well. The Ulster Orchestra … seems to e ...
BBC Music Magazine‘Howard Shelley is a suave advocate for Schmitt, alive to the humour of some of the twists and turns in his music and prepared to exaggerate key moments as well. The Ulster Orchestra … seems to e ...