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ALNAES & SINDING
 
Four Stars ****
BBC Music Magazine
July 2007


The Romantic Piano Concerto - 42
Alnæs & Sinding
PIERS LANE piano
BERGEN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
ANDREW LITTON conductor

Hyperion / CDA67555
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BACH
Piano Transcriptions - 3
[with transcriptions by Friedman,
Grainger & Murdoch]
Hyperion / CDA 67344
Still to be released, but already available from Hyperion
BACH/Eugen D'ALBERT
Piano Transcriptions, Vol. 8 – Eugen d'Albert

Hyperion / CDA67709


Hyperion © CDA67709 (74' • DDD)
Bach through the eyes, ears and fingers of Eugen d'Albert - thrillingly recreated
The complete Bach-d'Albert was just waiting to be recorded: all eight titles sit comfortably on one disc; hardly any have been recorded before (Mark Hambourg's dashing 1921 account of the D major Prelude, BWV532, and Risto Lauriala's turgid 1996 one of the C minor Passacaglia are among the few); and on hand to revive these puzzlingly forgotten transcriptions is Piers Lane, whose two earlier recordings of d'Albert's piano concertos and solo works for Hyperion (5/95, 1/98) make him the natural choice for the job, apart from having established his hyphenated Bach credentials with the superlative Volume 3 of this series (Friedman, Grainger and Murdoch: 7/03).

In transcribing Bach, d'Albert (1864-1932) differed in his approach to his near-contemporary Busoni by choosing only organ works, in pursuing clarity of texture above organ-like sonority and, as Kenneth Hamilton observes in his characteristically amusing and perceptive booklet, in the use of arpeggiated chords and octaves - "lucidity over weight" in other words. Not that Lane takes any prisoners in these sonorous and exhilarating performances, conjuring up from the Steinway's richly resonant bass a cathedral's 32 foot pedal division to thrilling effect. Try the F major Toccata (a score I've had for many years and always longed to hear played like tiiis) or the concluding D major Fugue, perfecdy paced and voiced. True, there is a lot of diddle-diddle-diddle in these 74 minutes (d'Albert never envisaged these works to be heard in this form) but I guarantee you will come away awed anew by the genius of Bach and amazed by die ingenuity of d'Albert. Jeremy Nicholas
Hyperion © CDA 67709 (74'06min)
D'Albert: Complete Bach Transcription
Eugen d’Albert’s copious piano transcriptions of Bach’s organ works made him an arch-rival to Busoni.

A Scottish-born pupil of Liszt, he conceived his transcriptions much in Liszt’s spirit: they are not quite as over-the-top as Busoni’s, a little less dense and overtone-laden, but the demands on the performer are still astonishing.

He milks the rich-bassed glories of Bach’s writing as if to prove that the piano is not to be outdone just because it has no pedalled notes. Listening to Piers Lane’s thrilling account of the C minor Passacaglia, it’s tempting to think he and d’Albert must both have had 16 fingers.

The programme offers intense pianism; but what makes Lane’s performance so special is the sheer panache, even chutzpah, that he brings to every twist and turn while managing to keep the contrapuntal threads transparent within the fabric.

And his tone is one of exceptional beauty and fullness, perhaps at its loveliest while quiet, yet at high volume remaining ideally cushioned and velvety. Intelligent musicianship replete with élan, excellently recorded in the resonant acoustic of Henry Wood Hall. Jessica Duchen (BBC Music Magazine)

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BLOCH
 
 
Issue 12/07
ERNEST BLOCH (1880-1959)
Piano Quintets
GOLDNER STRING QUARTET
Piers Lane, piano

Hyperion / CDA67638
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BRAHMS
JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897)
Three String Quartets & Piano Quintet
PIERS LANE piano
THE NEW BUDAPEST STRING QUARTET

Hyperion / CDD22018
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BRAHMS
Piano Quintet in F minor Op 34
with the New Budapest Quartet
Hyperion /  CDA 66652

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BRIDGE

JUNE 2009 BBC Music Magazine
RECORD OF THE MONTH
Piano Quintet H49a
String Quartet No 4 H67
Three Idylls H188
with the Goldner String Quartet
Hyperion /  CDA 67726
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BUSCH, William
Piano Concerto
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by
Vernon Handley
Lyrita / SRCD 320

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D’ALBERT
Piano Concerto No 1 in B minor Op 2
Piano Concerto No 2 in E Op 12
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by
Allun Francis

Hyperion / CDA 66747
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D’ALBERT


Sonata in F sharp minor Op 10
Scherzo & Intermezzo from Klavierstücke Op 16
Acht Klavierstücke Op 5
Serenata
Capriolen

Hyperion CDA 66945
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DELIUS SONGS


April 2007 BBC Music Magazine

25 songs
Yvonne Kenny (Soprano)
Piers Lane (piano)

Hyperion / CDA67594

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DELIUS
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
FINZI
Piano Concerto in C minor
Piano Concerto in C
Eclogue Op 10
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic conducted by
Vernon Handley
EMI Eminence 
CD EMX 2239
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DELIUS


"Quite exceptional performances"
Classic CD 9/97
Sonata in B op.posth.
Sonata No.1.
Sonata No.2.
Sonata No.3.
with Tasmin Little, violin
Conifer / 75605513152
 
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DELIUS
Violin Sonata in B Op Posth
Violin Sonata No 1
Violin Sonata No 2
Violin Sonata No 3
with Tasmin Little, violin
BMG Conifer / 75605 51315 2
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DELIUS
Prelude and Duet from Margot La Rouge
arr. Maurice Ravel
from Irmelin arr.Florent Schmitt
CD: Rarities of Piano Music at Schloss Husum 1998 Festival

dana cord digital / DACOCD 519
 
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DELIUS
IRELAND
IRELAND

Piano Concerto (1897) - original version
Piano Concerto in E flat major (1930)
Legend for piano & orchestra (1933)
Ulster Orchestra
conducted by David Lloyd Jones
Hyperion / CDA 67296

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DVORÁK
Piano Quintets
Goldner String Quartet, Piers Lane (piano)

Piano Quintet No 1 in A major, Op 5
Piano Quintet No 2 in A major, Op 81

Hyperion / CDA67805
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ELGAR
Piano Quintet in A minor Op 84
Vellinger Quartet
EMI Eminence / 
CD EMX 2229

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GRAINGER

Rambles and Reflections

Grainger's concert transcriptions of music by other composers
Hyperion / CDA67279

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HENSELT
Douze Études caractéristiques de concert Op 2
Poème d'amour Op 3
Douze Études de salon Op 5

Hyperion / CDA67495

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KULLAK
DREYSHOCK
Piano Concerto in C minor Op 55
Piano Concerto in D minor Op 137
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Niklas Willén
Hyperion / CDA 67086


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MOSCHELES
Characteristic Studies Op 95
Deux Études Op 98
Deux Études Op 105
Quatre Grandes Études de Concert Op 111
Grande Étude de Concert Op 126
Hyperion / CDA 67394

MUSSORGSKY
STRAVINSKY
BALAKIREV
Pictures at an Exhibition
Three Movements from Petrushka
Islamey - oriental fantasy
EMI Eminence  / CD EMX 2213

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PARRY
STANFORD
Piano Concerto in F sharp
Piano Concerto No 1 in G Major
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Martyn Brabbins
Hyperion / CDA 66820
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PADEREWSKI
MOSZKOWSKI
Piano Concerto in A minor Op 17
Piano Concerto in E Op 59
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Jerzy Maksymiuk
Hyperion / CDA 66452
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SAINT-SAËNS
Complete Etudes
Hyperion /  CDA 67037

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SCRIABIN
Complete Etudes
Hyperion /  CDA 66607

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SCRIABIN
Complete Preludes
Hyperion / CDA 67057/8

STANFORD
 
 
 
Piano Quintet in D minor Op 25 (1887)
with the RTE Vanburgh Quartet
Hyperion / CDA67505



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STRAUSS
Piano Transcriptions
Hyperion / CDA 66785

T K MURRAY
Rannoch Moor

Camber Music  with Piano
Play Acting
Rannoch Moor
Piers Lane (piano)

PANDAPP0205

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VIRTUOSO VIOLIN
Works by Kreisler, Brahms, Sarasate etc.
with Tasmin Little, violin
EMI Eminence / CD EMX 2196

WAXMAN
Rhapsody for Piano & Orchestra,
Legends of Hollywood - ‘The Paradine Case’
Queensland Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Robert Mills
Varese-Sarabande /  USD 5242