Carl Czerny found fame and fortune in 19th-century Vienna by writing fashionable and popular works as well as developing techniques for the newly emerging piano with his numerous études. Much of Czerny’s concert music for piano was considered ‘wild and almost unplayable’ in his day, but these world-premiere recordings reveal inspired melodic writing, great skill in orchestration and colourful virtuoso challenges in a programme that includes his final Concertino, op.650.

This is the final release in our edition of works for piano and orchestra by Carl Czerny and, in common with many of these albums, it consists entirely of world premiere recordings.

Previous releases in this edition have been welcomed and acclaimed in the critical press. Bel Canto Concertante (8573254) was admired in Fanfare: ‘Rosemary Tuck shapes the melodies firmly, and she and Richard Bonynge are completely in tune with each other. …there is much pleasure to be found here.’