How can as sumptuous and ear-tickling a work like Marx's Romantic Piano Concerto have been neglected all this time? True, its lavish style was pass� by the time it appeared in 1919. But everything proceeds in even, predictable patterns of four and eight bar phrases, and the tunes are memorable. Korngold's Left Hand Concerto is cut from more Modernist cloth, although one might take its lyrical outpourings to be more "corn" than "gold." Be that as it may, Marc-Andre Hamelin processes these notey scores with poker-faced cool, in a steady, unruffled manner that cuts through the music's caloric excess like lye through grease. --Jed Distler