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    Potter: Piano Works
    Naxos

    Potter: Piano Works

    CD · 1 disc

    $19.99
    Composer
    Cipriani Potter
    Artist
    Luke Jones
    Released
    Sep 25, 2026
    Even though Cipriani Potter's desire for lessons with Beethoven did not materialise, he benefitted from the great composer's advice and showed in his own music a thorough understanding of German models. As an admired soloist, he also introduced piano concertos by Mozart and Beethoven to Britain. Potter's Sonata in E minor shows these influences alongside some inventive flourishes and dramatic turbulence, whereas the three expertly written Toccatas reveal the influence of Bach. Enigma Variations was written in the style of five named contemporary composers, an example of witty, ingenious, and warm-hearted composition. Luke Jones' recording of the Fantasia in G major on Mayr's Chi dice mal d'amore is available for streaming and download as digital single 9.70391.
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  • Potter: Piano Works

    Potter: Piano Works

    Naxos Sep 2026
    1 disc
    CD
    $19.99
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    • Potter: Complete Symphonies, Vol. 2
    CPO

    Potter: Complete Symphonies, Vol. 2

    CD · 1 disc

    $18.99
    Composer
    Cipriani Potter
    Artist
    BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Released
    Jan 03, 2025
    Unlike his namesake Harry, Cypriani Potter did not learn his craft at Hogwarts, but with renowned British composers and then put the finishing touches to his music in Vienna - above all with Ludwig van Beethoven, who undoubtedly taught him some particularly effective tricks. In any case, there is an unmistakable magic in his works: at times it is delightful melodies, at others dramatic energy build-ups or rhythmically urgent episodes that give his music such an appeal that it is worth recording all of his surviving symphonies (nine, after all) and garnishing them with a few smaller pieces - in the present program, for example, with the Overture to Shakespeare's Tempest and with the original Concertante for piano and four strings on the popular theme La Follia, which Potter animates to a veritable outburst of temperament.
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  • Potter: Complete Symphonies, Vol. 2

    Potter: Complete Symphonies, Vol. 2

    CPO Jan 2025
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99
    • Symphonies & Melodie Zhao Ricercate
    CPO

    Symphonies & Melodie Zhao Ricercate

    CD · 1 disc

    $18.99
    Composer
    Cipriani Potter
    Artist
    Melodie Zhao, BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, Howard Griffiths
    Released
    Nov 07, 2025
    As a symphonist, the British composer, pianist, conductor, and pedagogue Philip Cipriani Hambly Potter works at the height of his era. He employs an opulent orchestra, drawing his colors from it's palette with a remarkably bold brushstroke: Where heavy brass just now steered through breaking waves, delicate flutes and tender strings sound forth the next moment; through dreamy scenes suddenly marches heavy footwork, and when it comes to bringing works to an applause-worthy conclusion, all participants must push to the limits of endurance... This attitude is as fascinating as it is entertaining-precisely the right middle ground between symphonic earnestness and nonchalant playfulness, a welcome facet of early Romantic literature, much like the spirited concert piece that tastefully separates the two symphonies.
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  • Symphonies & Melodie Zhao Ricercate

    Symphonies & Melodie Zhao Ricercate

    CPO Nov 2025
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99
    • Complete Symphonies, Vol. 4
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    Complete Symphonies, Vol. 4

    CD · 1 disc

    $18.99
    Composer
    Cipriani Potter
    Artist
    Julian Trevelyan, Alican Suner, BBC National Orchestra of Wales
    Richard Wagner found his British colleague Ciprian Potter to be an "old-fashioned but quite loveable composer'. On 28 May 1855 in London, he conducted Potter's symphony in G minor with such authority that not only was the "old, friendly eccentric man" enthusiastic, but the audience as well. And why wouldn't they be, when this magnificent work of 1832 contains just about everything one would expect from the very best of orchestral music and everything one had come to recognise from the historical giants Haydn and Beethoven - without, however, succumbing to that tasteless form of imitation that clumsily panders to the prevailing taste. A delightful gem, the Duo concertant for violin, piano and orchestra of 1827, follows the Symphony in B flat major (composed in 1821), concluding the fourth instalment of the forthcoming complete recordings: a three-movement showpiece with which the 'quirky old eccentric' certainly need not hide behind comparable works by Weber, Hummel and other virtuoso contemporaries.
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  • Complete Symphonies, Vol. 4
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    Complete Symphonies, Vol. 4

    CPO Nov 2026
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99