Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Piano Concerto No. 4 in E major (1/4)

This is Hummel's fourth concerto. Not quite as elaborate as the one in A flat but certainly charming almost beyond reason :) Especially I like his use of the trombone which adds so much colour to the orchestral sound.

Howard Shelley plays and conducts the London Mozart Players.

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[alilapointe1]

he must have heard it all when he lived with mozart

[Astardis]

I wonder why you're getting thumbs down for this comment... certainly living with Mozart must have given him SO much... thumbs up from me, for whatever it's worth

[morvensky]

When people say Beethoven is the only classical era composer with muscle have obviously never heard anything by Weber or Hummel.

[Marhiie5793]

who's the pianist? Is it still Stephen Hough ?

[ROBINSONREX1]

Hi Astardis could you kindly update the comments section with Hummel's bio(briefly). It would be much appreciated by newcomers like me. Thanks for the clip.

[big194kaylo]

My second name is Nepomuk too :)

[carbidelamp1]

great stuff from a great composer,---- that sucks that i cant find his septet in d, (which is really really good) here on youtube. his works have some power like beethoven, not like weber.

[2009xellos]

Absolutely, Mozart took Hummel with him to courts, and often improvised duets with him, declaring Hummel would someday be a greater keyboard player than him.

Mozart taught, housed him for free, for 2 years and Hummel had the valuable opportunity to study his teachers' newly composed works, such as late Mozart piano concertos etc.

After that, Hummel went on a tour with his father, like how young Mozart did.

His respect, admiration for his teacher is shown in his solo piano transcriptions.

[2009xellos]

There's no point in comparing Classical concertos with Romantic concertos in terms of technique, as stated in the Philips' recording of "Great Romantic Piano Sonatas", Romantic composers were able to explore multitudes of different techniques thanks to the fast development of the piano that happened during Beethoven's time and onward. Mozart, Haydn did their best in doing what they could do with their primitive fortepianos.

They lacked tonal power, range, compared to their Romantic counterpart.

[Jman0101]

Hearing rather overlooked compsers is awesome....I read that hummel worked with the guitarist giuliani on what was going to be a guitar concerto but it never came to fruition.