Piers Lane
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In the First Quintet Lane and the Goldners manage to communicate the urgency and immediacy of Bloch's musical argument… the opening passage projected with a frenzy that generates considerable... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Chamber Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2007, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2008, Disc of the month
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This is one of those rare discs that give pleasure and food for thought in equal measure...when [Elgar's chamber music] is played with the kind of understanding shown by these five musicians... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2011, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, Disc of the month
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Lane in wonderful debonair mode here, sparkling through a personal encore selection from Jamaican Rumba to a Toccata by his own father, and from Myra Hess to Dudley Moore. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd September 2013
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[No. 8’s] main point of interest is its slow movement – a serene piece of Romantic ardour, played with admirable poetic warmth by Piers Lane…[in No. 9] Lane manages the seemingly endless cascades... —
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Malcolm Williamson: The Complete Piano Concertos
Piers Lane (piano), with Howard Shelley (piano), with Yoram Levy (trumpet), Mark Bain (trumpet), Martin Phillipson (trumpet)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Howard Shelley
The late Malcolm Williamson may have had his unruly side, but he was vastly and variously gifted...Lane is the tireless soloist, crisply percussive or touchingly lyrical as required, and Howard... —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 12 - Parry and Stanford
Piers Lane (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 69 - Hill & Boyle
Piers Lane (piano)
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Fritzsch
One cannot imagine a more persuasive, artful advocate of the music of his two compatriots than Piers Lane who, frankly, is worth hearing in whatever he plays —
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Saint-Saëns's Études make ferociously virtuosic demands upon any pianist, but thankfully Piers Lane is more than up to the task, not least in the set of six studies for the left hand alone,... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Carl Vine: Child's Play, Piano Quintet & Other Chamber Music
Goldner String Quartet, Piers Lane (piano)
the works collected - all recorded with clarity, if slightly closely - provide a fascinating portrait of a composer who produces music of undoubted appeal and expressive focus. Well worth investigating. —
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The playing is characterized by energy, thrust, and spirit as well as subtlety and sensitivity where that is required, and it seems flawless from the technical standpoint. The string players... —
