Ireland - Decorations
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The orchestral original of La mer would seem to defy translation to solo piano. Yet Piboule's deft evocation of this Impressionist masterpiece, her grasp of its musical substance and rendering... —
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Mark Bebbington's… approach to the brooding and combative Piano Sonata is to give the harmony time enough to breathe, in order to go more intensely into its emotional life. The depressive aspects... —
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The pleasures here are many. John Lenehan is a very accomplished performer: not only is his technical address impeccable, but he also has a strikingly wide dynamic range and sophisticated variety... —
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Rarities of Piano Music at the Husum Festival 1987-1988
Michael Ponti, Boris Bloch, Daniel Berman, Rainer M. Klaas, Eckart Sellheim, Peter Froundjian, Duo Quatre Mains, Daniel Berman/Peter Froundjian/Rainer M. Klaas, Peter Westenholz, Nina Tichman, Philip Fowke, Marc-André Hamelin, Roberto Szidon, Michael Struck
[Fowke's] playing is that of a true virtuoso, sumptuously coloured and inflected, while Marc-Andre Hamelin displays all of his superhuman command in his own savagely intricate Prelude and Fugue... —
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John Ireland
Colin Horsley (piano), Daniel Adni (piano), Desmond Wright (piano), The Composer (piano)
RPO, Basil Cameron
Here is most of the music that lies at the heart of John Ireland's achievement. Unmistakably English yet aware of the wider world, his work is rooted in tradition but conscious of change.... —
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Captured in perfectly acceptable mono sound, Rowland's memorably intimate performances betoken a very special empathy for this repertoire. —
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Eric Parkin's… is completely inside Ireland's idiom, well understanding the darker emotional complexities and yearnings that may underlie a seemingly casual phrase or carefree melodic line. —
