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Special offer. 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
Special offer. The Romantic Piano Concerto 69 - Hill & Boyle
Piers Lane (piano)
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Fritzsch
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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
About
Alfred Hill and George Boyle enjoyed distinguished careers in their native Australia and abroadBoyle's students in New York included Copland and Barberthough both are all-too-little known today. The piano concerto and sonata by Hillthe 'grand old man' of Australian musical life at the timeare effectively the same work, the one an orchestral expansion of the other.
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- Piers Lane (piano)
- Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
- Johannes Fritzsch
- Piers Lane (piano)
- Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
- Johannes Fritzsch
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Awards and reviews
November 2016
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
2nd December 2016
A very welcome addition to this series; the Boyle is the stand-out.
23rd October 2016
an intriguing disc of Australian examples, Piers Lane making a convincing case for his countrymen’s music. Alfred Hill’s 1941 concerto has a breezy, sunny disposition, with hardly a dark cloud in the sky…[Boyle's is] altogether graver than Hill’s [and] has a final movement to rival anything coming out of Europe at the time.
Classical Ear December 2016
The centrepiece is Boyle’s Concerto in D minor. Composed in 1911, making it arguably the first significant such work by an Australian, it is unabashedly romantic, with orchestral writing of considerable character that feels both ripe and robust, and a particularly thoughtful piano line…Piers Lane and the Adelaide Symphony play with conviction and make a persuasive case for the Boyle if not for the Hill.
