Sterndale Bennett: Piano Concerto No. 4, Caprice / Bache: Piano Concerto

1	Concerto for piano & orch
2	Concerto for piano & orch
3	Concerto for piano & orch
4	Piano Concerto in E major
5	Piano Concerto in E major
6	Piano Concerto in E major
7	Caprice for piano & orche
Sterndale Bennett: Piano Concerto No. 4, Caprice / Bache: Piano Concerto
1.	Concerto for piano & orchestra No. 4 in F minor, Op 19 27:38
	Composed by William Sterndale Bennett
	Performed by BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Howard Shelley
	Conducted by Howard Shelley
2.	Piano Concerto in E major, Op. 18 24:47
	Composed by Francis Edward Bache
	Performed by BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Howard Shelley
	Conducted by Howard Shelley
3.	Caprice for piano & orchestra in E, Op 22 12:49
	Composed by William Sterndale Bennett
	Performed by BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Howard Shelley
	Conducted by Howard Shelley

All Music Guide

Consisting of William Sterndale Bennett's "Fourth Piano Concerto" plus his "Caprice in E major" with a "Piano Concerto" by Bennett's student Francis Edward Bache, the repertoire here might not at first seem the sort to elicit huzzahs. Firmly in the Mendelssohnian camp of earnest but not especially adventurous early Romanticism, these works are well crafted and energetic with lots of catchy melodies, bouncy rhythms, and colorful orchestrations, but without much that seems inspired or even exciting. But Howard Shelley is one of the splashiest, flashiest pianists in England, and his playing here finds more to charm and delight in the material than one might have thought possible. Also functioning here as the conductor, Shelley elicits an equally colorful performance from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra -- remarkable in such outré repertoire. If you don't already know Mendelssohn or Schumann's concertos, you are advised to seek them out first. But if you do already and are looking for something from deeper in the catalog, you may find this album to be a hidden treasure. James Leonard

Daily Telegraph

Richard Tunnicliffe's superb playing beautifully captures these multifarious moods, as well as bringing out Garth's touches of Haydnesque humour in music whose all-too-belated revival should finally establish him as one of England's best early Classical composers. Elizabeth Roche