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The Romantic Piano Concerto - 42 | Hyperion - Romantic Piano Concertos CDA67555

The Romantic Piano Concerto - 42

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Label: Hyperion - Romantic Piano Concertos

Cat No: CDA67555

Barcode: 0034571175553

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 2nd April 2007

Contents

Artists

Piers Lane (piano)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Andrew Litton

Works

Alnaes, Eyvind

Piano Concerto in D major, op.27

Sinding, Christian

Piano Concerto in D flat major, op.6

Artists

Piers Lane (piano)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Andrew Litton

About

For the forty-second release in our prestigious Romantic Piano Concerto series, we went to Norway - and rightly so as the recording reveals that there’s more to Norwegian Romantic Piano Concertos than Grieg in A minor. While Sinding is at least a name to most people (if only for The Rustle of Spring), Alnæs is almost completely unknown outside his native land, yet it is perhaps this latter’s concerto which makes the bigger impression.
 
This is a glorious late romantic work in an idiom akin to Rachmaninov; indeed there are passages which seem to quote the Russian’s fourth concerto—except that the Alnæs was written first. Did Rachmaninov perhaps hear an early performance?
 
The Sinding is a monolithic three-movement work where all the material is based on one theme which undergoes many Lisztian transformations. The piece is hugely virtuosic, some may say bombastic—but some may also say that’s what this series is about—and it’s all good fun!
 
We’re delighted to continue our relationship with Andrew Litton as the new principal conductor of the Bergen
Philharmonic
and here he is joined by RPC stalwart Piers Lane in his sixth contribution to the series.

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