Loder: Piano Music
Ian Hobson (piano)
Numerous pieces bring a smile with their twinkling cascades, parallel thirds, scales in octaves, and other devices, generally woven around fetching melodies or the simplest rhythmic exchanges....
Loder: Piano Music
Ian Hobson (piano)
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Numerous pieces bring a smile with their twinkling cascades, parallel thirds, scales in octaves, and other devices, generally woven around fetching melodies or the simplest rhythmic exchanges....
About
Kate Loder (1825–1904) was a child-prodigy pianist from a family of musicians in Bath, in south-west England.
She was one of the first students at the Royal Academy of Music in London and one of Britain’s brightest young virtuosi.
But Victorian prejudice thwarted a promising career: her well-to-do husband would not allow her to perform in public.
Instead, as Lady Thomson, she became an important teacher and society hostess – and she continued to compose, including two sets of virtuoso studies that sit downstream from Chopin and Schubert.
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Awards and reviews
July 2017
Numerous pieces bring a smile with their twinkling cascades, parallel thirds, scales in octaves, and other devices, generally woven around fetching melodies or the simplest rhythmic exchanges. The decorative modesty of this output is genuinely charming, especially in British pianist Ian Hobson’s sparkling performances, further enhanced by the blessedly clear and friendly recording
21st May 2017
Mendelssohn and Chopin’s influence is evident and Ian Hobson, who has also championed the music of Kate’s cousin Edward Loder, has total command of it all.
