Piers Lane – Russian Variations (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:57 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
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Three substantial sets of variations – by Glazunov, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov – plus a delightful amuse-bouche from John Field, who settled in St Petersburg in the early years of the nineteenth century, make up Piers Lane’s attractive and virtuosic programme.
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Piers Lane, Goldner String Quartet – Dunhill & Erlanger – Piano Quintets (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:14 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
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As companionable, healthy and English as the South Downs on a sunny day’ was an early verdict on Thomas Dunhill’s Piano Quintet, one which could equally well apply to both works on this attractive programme.
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Piers Lane, The Orchestra Now, Leon Botstein – Rubbra & Bliss: Piano Concertos (2020)
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Two very different takes on the romantic piano concerto, both equally successful. The Bliss – written in 1939 for the World’s Fair in New York – is extrovert, exuberant and virtuosic, the Rubbra a profound reflection on, and continuation of, the English pastoral tradition.
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Piers Lane – Piers Lane: Goes to Town (2013)
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Piers Lane gambols delightfully through the twentieth century in this album of encores, party pieces and a few pianophile rarities, ranging from Dame Myra Hess’s unforgettable arrangement of Bach’s Jesu, joy of man’s desiring to Dudley Moore’s equally unforgettable Beethoven pastiche.
This album includes first recordings of, among others, John Ireland’s Ballerina and Mark Saya’s Offenbach/Chopin conflation Barcarolles. A number of these pieces are by Australian composers who wrote for Piers himself. His unbounded virtuosity and joy in the music is clearly an inspiration, and is evident throughout the recording.
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Piers Lane, Howard Shelley – Williamson: Complete Piano Concertos (2014)
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A real rarity from Hyperion’s Anglo-Australian artistic collaboration: music by an Australian composer who was once at the heart of the English establishment. Malcolm Williamson was one of many Australian creative artists who relocated to Britain in the mid-twentieth century. Within a decade of settling in London he had established a reputation as one of the most gifted and prolific composers of his generation. His stature as a leading figure within the British music scene was publicly acknowledged in 1975 when he was appointed to the esteemed post of Master of the Queen’s Music in succession to Sir Arthur Bliss. But today he is almost forgotten and his music virtually never performed.
This double-album set of the complete Piano Concertos is therefore an important document as well as a compendium of deeply appealing music. Williamson wrote with a generosity of emotion and melodic flair rare in the mid-twentieth century, in a forward-looking idiom.
The third concerto is perhaps the masterpiece, a huge and complex work. The fourth was written in 1993/4 and appears here as its world premiere performance and recording.
Piers Lane, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Howard Shelley are the ideal performers of these unjustly neglected works.
Composer: Malcolm Williamson
Performer: Mark Bain, Piers Lane, Yoram Levy, Martin Phillipson, …
Conductor: Howard Shelley
Orchestra/Ensemble: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
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Piers Lane, Johannes Fritzsch, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra – The Romantic Piano Concerto – 69 (2015)
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Alfred Hill and George Boyle enjoyed distinguished careers in their native Australia and abroadBoyle’s students in New York included Copland and Barberthough both are all-too-little known today. The piano concerto and sonata by Hillthe ‘grand old man’ of Australian musical life at the timeare effectively the same work, the one an orchestral expansion of the other.
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Piers Lane – Piers Lane goes to town again (2022)
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Piers Lane brings all his pianistic panache to this splendidly eclectic recital of works from the 1700s to 2019, in a programme exploring very different aspects of the dance.
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Tasmin Little & Piers Lane – British Violin Sonatas, Vol. 2 (2016/2022)
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The atmosphere established by this original collection is best described by the violinist herself: ‘Now that the disc is complete, the shape of it feels very right and I love the combination of these works – opening with exuberance, and continuing with drama, wistful lines, folk elements, and romance. I always take into account the key structure when planning a disc of varied works, and the way that I have planned this disc gives me one of my favourite moments: the ‘Pastorale’ by Vaughan Williams dies away in the key of E minor, after which our disc segues seamlessly into the E minor introduction to William Lloyd Webber’s piece, which in its turn blossoms into E major as the violin line makes its entrance.
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