PAVEL PABST (1854-1897): Piano Concerto in E Flat, Op. 82, NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (1844-1908): Piano Concerto in C Sharp Minor, Op. 30, ALEXANDER SCRIABIN (1872-1915): Piano Concerto in F Sharp Minor, Op. 20.

Description: Sometimes the smaller guys get there first! Unlike Acte Préalable (see nine numbers below), Danacord, a couple of years after bringing us a solo piano Pabst disc, unleash a romantic piano spectactular certainly worthy of Hyperion's "Romantic Piano Concerto" series. It couldn't be played any better than this, though. Pabst was highly thought of by Tchaikovsky and his pupils included Lyapunov, Medtner and no fewer than eight later piano professors at the Moscow Conservatory. Dating from 1882 but not published until after the composer's death (and not revived until 2003 in Moscow), this 31-minute concerto brims with pianistic virtuosity and all manner of keyboard pyrotechnics yet it also has a firm and dramatic structure, successfully combining the traditions of Schumann and Tchaikovsky on the one hand and those of Chopin, Liszt, Henselt and Rubinstein on the other. Oleg Marshev (piano), South Jutland Symphony Orchestra; Vladimir Ziva.