Steibelt: Piano Concertos Nos 3, 5 & 7
Howard Shelley (piano), Ulster Orchestra, Howard Shelley (conductor)
CDA68104
Howard Shelley and the Ulster Orchestra return for a second volume in Hyperion’s new Classical Piano Concerto series. Daniel Steibelt—the man who dared to challenge Beethoven and lost—ruled the keyboards of northern Europe for a quarter of a century, his own concertos as sensationally popular as their composer was ostentatious.