Search Results: hyperion piano
Displaying items 661 to 680 of 787
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Piers Lane Goes To Town Again Piers Lane (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/May/2023 ] 'This superbly recorded disc (played on a gorgeously voiced Steinway) is Lane's love letter to the piano. I wish more pianists would share their guilty pleasures like this' (Gramophone Editor's Choice July 23) |
J.S. BACH
Bach Piano Transcriptions Vol 3 (Ignacy Friedman, William Murdoch, Percy Grainger) Piers Lane (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Apr/2003 ] "Lane commands the golden tone and effortless, spirited virtuosity needed to make these transcriptions come alive, and makes them sound easy to boot. A honey of a release." (BBC Music) |
SCRIABIN
Complete Preludes Vol 2 Piers Lane (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 15/Jan/2015 ] 'Lane certainly knows how to tease out the music's textural subtleties; his emotional commitment is undeniable, as is his grasp of the poetic/virtuosic dichotomy inherent in Scriabin's music' (BBC Music Magazine) |
MOSCHELES
The Complete Concert Studies Piers Lane, piano [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] 'Lane is the kind of pianist who can make anything sound good. His formidable technique is evident from the opening etude … It is all the better that this recording is engineered well and we have a fine instrument' (American Record Guide) |
BACH / CONFREY / GRAINGER / MAYERL / BENJAMIN / TEMPLE / etc
Piers Lane goes to town Piers Lane (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Sep/2013 ] "Lane's joie de vivre is infectious in the more flamboyant pieces. He loves these pieces, and isn't coy about telling us that we can, and should, love them too. Flamboyance and poetry are nicely balanced, and Lane attacks the cheesier numbers with su |
GRAINGER
Rambles and Reflections Piers Lane (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 10/Nov/2011 ] ***** Five Stars BBC Music Magazine (Nov 2002)- 'Inspired re-creations … strongly recommended to connoisseur and newcomer alike' |
SCRIABIN
Complete Preludes Vol 1 Piers Lane (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 15/Jan/2015 ] 'Lane certainly knows how to tease out the music's textural subtleties; his emotional commitment is undeniable, as is his grasp of the poetic/virtuosic dichotomy inherent in Scriabin's music' (BBC Music Magazine) |
EUGEN d'ALBERT
Solo Piano Music Piers Lane (piano) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/May/2013 ] 'A superb recital ... provoking astonishment that music of such quality could have lain neglected for so long. No praise could be high enough for Piers Lane whose playing throughout is of a superb musical intelligence, sensitivity and scintillating... |
EUGEN d'ALBERT
Piano Concertos 1 & 2 Piers Lane (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Alun Francis, conductor [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 9 / CD - released 3/Apr/2005 ] 'As usual for this series, the performances are beyond reproach ... one could not imagine a better advocate' - Gramophone |
PARRY / STANFORD
Parry / Stanford: Piano Concertos Piers Lane (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins, conductor [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 12 / CD - released 3/Apr/2005 ] 'Splendid, eloquent performances in clear, warm sound plus Jeremy Dibble's scholarly notes full of insights about the period of these compositions makes this an issue not to be missed. One is left dumbfounded that the [Parry] concerto could have lain... |
BELA BARTOK / ERICH KORNGOLD
Bartók & Korngold: Piano Quintets Piers Lane (piano), Goldner String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 31/Jan/2020 ] "Throughout both quintets, Lane's piano has kept pace with any number of quirky metrics and subtle keyboard effect,s all captured in piercing sonics by Record Producer Jeremy Hayes" AudAud.com |
FREDERIC D'ERLANGER / THOMAS DUNHILL
Dunhill & Erlanger: Piano Quintets Piers Lane (piano), Goldner String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] 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. |
SIR EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83 / Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84 / etc Piers Lane (piano) / Goldner String Quartet [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] "This is one of those rare discs that give pleasure and food for thought in equal measure...The whole experience is a valuable reminder that Elgar doesn't display his originality openly." BBC Music Magazine, September 2011 ***** |
EDMUND RUBBRA / SIR ARNOLD BAX / SIR ARTHUR BLISS
Rubbra / Bax / Bliss: The Romantic Piano Concerto Piers Lane (piano), The Orchestra Now, Leon Botstein (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/Jun/2020 ] 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... |
|
Raymond Clarke
Simpson:cpte.Solo Piano Mus [ Hyperion / CD - released 22/Feb/1996 ] |
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Quintet / Clarinet Quintet Richard Hosford (clarinet) / The Nash Ensemble [ Hyperion / CD - released 9/Nov/2007 ] BBC Award finalist 2008 - Best Chamber recording - 'Coleridge-Taylor is best-known, when he's remembered at all, for his Violin Concerto…but the Nash Ensemble offers us delightful chamber music from the 1890s, of which the Clarinet Quintet is the... |
SCHUBERT
Schwanengesang Robert Holl (bass-baritone) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] 'Holl feels and communicates superbly and can be awesomely delicate. In this recital of songs from Schubert's last year, the stark Heine settings emerge with heart-wrenching power' (The Times) |
CHARLES GOUNOD
Gounod: The complete works for pedal piano & orchestra Roberto Prosseda (pedal piano) / Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Howard Shelley [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 62 / CD - released 20/Oct/2013 ] "Prosseda seems to have full command of his unwieldy instrument and manages to make Gounod's music sing and dance in a lively fashion. Howard Shelley, who trades his piano for the podium, is an able accompanist" (AudAud.com) |
GUIDO ALBERTO FANO / LUIGI DALLAPICCOLA / SILVIO OMIZZOLO / CRISTIAN CARRARA
War Silence: Rare Italian piano concertos Roberto Prosseda (piano) London Philharmonic Orchestra Nir Kabaretti (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 31/Jan/2025 ] The critical reception of Schumann's violin sonatas-like that of much of the composer's late output-has vacillated over the course of the intervening centuries. |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Richard Strauss: The Complete Songs 7 Ruby Hughes (soprano), Ben Johnson (tenor), Günter Haumer (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Apr/2017 ] "Ruby Hughes's bright soprano is appealing" Gramophone Magazine, May 2015 |
