Richard Farrell - The Complete Recordings, Volume 1

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Richard Farrell - The Complete Recordings, Volume 1

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Atoll

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ACD208

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2

Release date:

9th March 2009

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9421000502089

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Richard Farrell - The Complete Recordings, Volume 1

Brahms:

Ballades (4), Op. 10

Waltzes (16), Op. 39

Grieg:

Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16

Ballade in G minor, Op. 24

19 Norwegian Folksongs, Op. 66 (selections)

Nos 14 & 17

9 Lyric Pieces

Liszt:

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S124

Richard Farrell (piano)

The Halle Orchestra, George Weldon

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Fifty years ago on a country road near Arundel, Sussex, a car unaccountably left the road and hit a tree, killing all three of the vehicle's occupants. One of the passengers in the car was Richard Farrell. Richard was just starting an amazing career as a concert pianist. In 1956 he made what was to be his last tour of New Zealand. By this time he was tackling some of the mountain-peaks of the pianistic repertoire in his programmes - things like the Brahms F Minor Sonata and the "Handel" Variations, Ravel's "Gaspard de la Nuit", Chopin's Op.10 Etudes, and some Liszt transcriptions and paraphrases. As well, with the New Zealand National Orchestra, whose work with conductor James Robertson he praised, he played the "Emperor", and the Ravel Left-Hand Concerto. That same year Farrell had commenced what seemed a highly promising recording career in England with Pye Records, beginning with a coupling of the Grieg and Liszt E-flat concertos in which he was partnered by the Halle Orchestra under George Weldon. These two concertos are on this recording.

playGrieg Piano Concerto In A Manor Op. 16 - 1. Allegro Molto Moderato

playGrieg Piano Concerto In A Manor Op. 16 - 2. Adagia

playGrieg Piano Concerto In A Manor Op. 16 - 3. Allegro Moderato Molto E Marcato

playBrahms 4 Ballades Op. 10 - 1. Andante (D Minor)

playBrahms 4 Ballades Op. 10 - 2. Andante (D Major)

playBrahms 4 Ballades Op. 10 - 3. Intermezzo (B Minor)

playBrahms 4 Ballades Op. 10 - 4. Andante Con Moto (B Major)

playBrahms 16 Waltzes Op. 39 - 1. (B Major)

playBrahms 16 Waltzes Op. 39 - 2. (E Major)

playBrahms 16 Waltzes Op. 39 - 3. (G-sharp Minor)

playBrahms 16 Waltzes Op. 39 - 4. (E Minor)

playBrahms 16 Waltzes Op. 39 - 5. (E Major)

playBrahms 16 Waltzes Op. 39 - 6. (C-sharp Minor)

playBrahms 16 Waltzes Op. 39 - 7. (C-sharp Minor)

playBrahms 16 Waltzes Op. 39 - 8 (B-flat Major)

playBrahms 16 Waltzes Op. 39 - 9. (D Minor)

playBrahms 16 Waltzes Op. 39 - 10. (G Major)

playBrahms 16 Waltzes Op. 39 - 11. (B Minor)

playBrahms 16 Waltzes Op. 39 - 12. (E Major)

playBrahms 16 Waltzes Op. 39 - 13. (B Major)

playBrahms 16 Waltzes Op. 39 - 14. (G-sharp Minor)

playBrahms 16 Waltzes Op. 39 - 15. (A-flat Major)

playBrahms 16 Waltzes Op. 39 - 16. (C-sharp Minor)

playBallade In G Minor Op. 24

playIm Ola-Thal, In Ola See

playGendanken Voll Ich Wandere

playArietta Op. 12 No. 1

playButterfly Op. 43 No. 1

playIn My Native Country Op. 43 No. 3

playTo The Spring Op. 43 No. 6

playValse-Impromptu Op. 47 No. 1

playMelodie Op. 47 No. 3

playNiels W.Gade Op. 57 No. 2

playWedding Day At Troldhaugen Op. 65 No. 6

playRemembrances Op. 71 No. 7

playAllegro Maestoso

playQuasi-Adagio

playAllegretto Vivace

playAllegro Marziale Anomato

Gramophone Magazine

April 1959

(on Grieg’s Ballade)

“This music is wonderfully inventive, and Farrell brings out all the poetry and melancholy and humourin a performance that could hardly be bettered.”

Gramophone Magazine

July 1957

(on the Grieg Piano Concerto)

“I enjoyed his playing very much, for he has what is today the rare virtue of being able to play slowly. Though he often tosses off quick passages at conventional speeds (and he has plenty of technique), he always plays slow movements and slow sections of movements considerably slower than almost every other pianist listed above. And yet he is neither sentimental nor dull ; his playing, on the contrary, is movingly contemplative and poetic.”

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