Czerny is remembered as Beethoven’s favoured interpreter of his own piano works and is well known as Liszt’s teacher, but it is for his pedagogic works, still in use to this day, that he continues to enjoy renown. The Nocturnes offer a less familiar view of Czerny. These sensitively shaped, small-scale Biedermeier compositions offered domestic households the opportunity to savour their sense of delicacy and enigmatic mood changes. The op.604 set is rather more robust than op.368, which is exquisitely sensitive, but equally convincing in characterisation and scope.

Steinway Artist Roberte Mamou received a Diapason d’Or award for her recording of music by Cimarosa, where she was described as a ‘Poetess of Sound’. She has appeared as a soloist with the Berlin Symphony, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Moscow Soloists, the Collegium Instrumentale in Bruges, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Lille. Mamou was nominated for Opus Klassik 2022 (Berlin) for her album Viennese Variations, in the instrumentalist of the year category.

Czerny’s Piano Concertinos can be heard on 8574458: ‘Rosemary Tuck is a fine player with a delicately flexible touch, and in the second Concertino… she copes gracefully with every virtuoso challenge the score throws at her’ (BBC Music Magazine). His Romantic Piano Fantasies on Sir Walter Scott’s Novels was an American Record Guide Critic’s Choice, and was described as ‘exciting and brilliant with moments of true beauty’ (American Record Guide).