Rosemary Tuck; English Chamber Orchestra; Richard Bonynge - Carl Czerny: Piano Concertinos

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 etudes. 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.