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Four Stars ****
BBC Music Magazine July 2007
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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 |
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BACH/Eugen D'ALBERT |
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BLOCH |
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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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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
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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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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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Piano Quintet in A minor Op 84
Vellinger Quartet
EMI Eminence / CD EMX 2229
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July 2011 |
ELGAR |
Piers Lane and the Goldner Quartet play Elgar
Elgar: String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83
Goldner String Quartet
Elgar: Mina Piers Lane (piano)
Elgar: Laura Valse Piers Lane (piano)
Elgar: Impromptu Piers Lane (piano)
Elgar: March in D major Piers Lane (piano)
Elgar: Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84
Piers Lane (piano), Goldner String Quartet
Hyperion / CDA 67857 |
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Goldner String Quartet & Piers Lane – Elgar's String Quartet & Piano Quintet [Hyperion] Reviewed by: Colin Anderson
This is another Hyperion winner (the fourth) for the Goldner String Quartet and Piers Lane – see links below – this time of Elgar’s music. His sole string quartet and his only piano quintet are relatively late pieces, the Cello Concerto following in their wake, all three works emerging as World War I, but not its aftermath, had run its course.
The first movement of the String Quartet is a passionate and reflective affair, superbly attended to by the members of the Goldner Quartet, the music at once seminal and expansive, motifs kept in view, the very human feelings expressed given poignant vent without distorting the overall shape. The wistful slow movement – perhaps reminding of the Brahms of the Clarinet Quintet – is especially rewarding in this performance, the musicians letting Elgar’s declarations play themselves while being fully immersed in their suggestions of summer-autumn changeovers. The athletic finale is dynamically handled, its retreats to reverie fully communed and made integral.
Elgar’s String Quartet absorbs while not giving up its secrets easily. This performance by the Goldner Quartet is certainly one to keep by one’s side to explore the work more fully. In contrast to its concentration, the Piano Quintet is a more expansive and outgoing piece, once past the rather spare and shadowy slow introduction. The main Allegro is virile and with some thoughtfully composed interplay between piano and strings as the first movement journeys through perhaps-unexpected playfulness (not least the dance that might just be thought Spanish) and expands into pages of profound sadness – all beautifully managed by Piers Lane and the Goldner musicians who have developed a rather special rapport. The core of the Piano Quintet is the slow movement, an Adagio with all the nobilmente and emotional sap that could be wished for, opened out here with a collective big heart and a rich sense of narrative. Shadows return to open the finale, an ornately expressed culmination not without detours that keep the listener intrigued.
In between the chamber works, Piers Lane plays four of Elgar’s miniatures for piano, covering the years 1887 to 1933. Lane’s ravishing touch brings gentle life to Mina. Laura Valse (1887) has an interesting history in that the autograph (authenticated) belonged to Steve Race. Since the pianist and broadcaster’s death (in 2009), the score he owned has not come to light, so we hear Tim Murray’s transcription of Race’s own performance that he made on a cassette for a talk. It’s a lovely piece, with just a hint of Elgar! Similarly, the March in D, although likeable, doesn’t necessarily shout this composer at you; rather Schubertian in fact, a Marche militaire. The 1932 Impromptu is fascinating, all 24 seconds of it. It is but a sketch and appears unfinished – certainly imperfectly cadenced at the ‘end’ – another Elgarian enigma – and could easily pass as being by Schumann, regarded by Anthony Payne as Elgar’s German true counterpart rather than Brahms. Suffice to say that Lane plays all these salon pieces with great sympathy.
With sound quality judged to a nicety and typically first-class annotation and presentation, once again Piers Lane and the Goldner String Quartet gives us something very special.
Website: Classicalsource.com |
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Rambles and Reflections
Grainger's concert transcriptions of music by other composers
Hyperion / CDA67279
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Douze Études caractéristiques de concert Op 2
Poème d'amour Op 3
Douze Études de salon Op 5
Hyperion / CDA67495
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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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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
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MUSSORGSKY
STRAVINSKY
BALAKIREV |
Pictures at an Exhibition
Three Movements from Petrushka
Islamey - oriental fantasy
EMI Eminence / CD EMX 2213
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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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Complete Etudes
Hyperion / CDA 66607
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SCRIABIN |
Complete Preludes
Hyperion / CDA 67057/8
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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
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Chamber Music with Piano
Play Acting
Rannoch Moor
Piers Lane (piano)
PANDA / PP0205
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Works by Kreisler, Brahms, Sarasate etc.
with Tasmin Little, violin
EMI Eminence / CD EMX 2196
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THE VIRTUOSO CLARINET
Michael Collins (clarinet) - Piers Lane (piano) |
Works by Weber: Grand Duo concertant - Messager: Solo de concours - Rachmaninoff: Vocalise - Gershwin: Three Preludes - Milhaud: Scaramouche - Giampieri: Il carnevale di Venezia - Lovreglio: Fantasia on La traviata - Milton: Carmen Fantasy.
CHANDOS / CHAN 10615
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Rhapsody for Piano & Orchestra,
Legends of Hollywood - ‘The Paradine Case’
Queensland Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Robert Mills
Varese-Sarabande / USD 5242
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