Grainger: Rambles & Reflections: Grainger's transcriptions of works by other composers

Grainger's eclectic idiosyncratic piano transcriptions, despatched with light-fingered clarity. Strauss swoons, Stephen Foster's all of a tingle. Excellent notes, too. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 31st Oct 2011
Catalogue No: CDH55454
Label: Helios
Series: Instrumental Selections
Length: 75 minutes

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Byrd: The Carman's Whistle

Work length4:25

$1.00

$1.25

Piers Lane (piano)

Dowland: Now, O now, I needs must part

Work length4:29

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$1.25

Piers Lane (piano)

Handel: Hornpipe from Watermusic

Work length1:43

$1.00

$1.25

Piers Lane (piano)

Scott, C: Handelian Rhapsody

Work length6:24

$1.00

$1.25

Piers Lane (piano)

Delius: Air and Dance

Work length4:36

$1.00

$1.25

Piers Lane (piano)

Stanford: Four Irish Dances

Work length15:00

$4.00

$5.00

Piers Lane (piano)

I. A March-Jig 'Maguire's Kick'

Track length3:22

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II. A Slow Dance

Track length4:35

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III. The Leprechaun's Dance

Track length2:52

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IV. A Reel

Track length4:11

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anon.: Beautiful Fresh Flower

Work length1:49

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Piers Lane (piano)

Strauss, R: Ramble on Love from Der Rosenkavalier

Work length7:10

$1.50

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Piers Lane (piano)

Excerpt, Brahms: Lieder (5), Op. 49

Work length3:43

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Piers Lane (piano)

IV. Cradle Song

Track length3:43

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Fauré: Après un rêve, Op. 7 No. 1

Work length2:58

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Piers Lane (piano)

Fauré: Nell, Op. 18 No. 1

Work length2:35

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Piers Lane (piano)

Tchaikovsky: Paraphrase on Tchaikovsky's Flower Waltz

Work length6:36

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Piers Lane (piano)

Gershwin: The Man I Love

Work length3:47

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Piers Lane (piano)

Gershwin: Love Walked In

Work length3:36

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Piers Lane (piano)

Foster, S: Tribute to Foster

Work length6:20

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Piers Lane (piano)

Extract. Lullaby

Track length6:20

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Though he professed not to enjoy concert giving, Grainger was one of the greatest pianists of the earlier twentieth century and had an intimate understanding of the capabilities of the piano and how best to write for it. He possessed a unique compositional voice and was, in many ways, part of the great composer–pianist tradition stretching from Liszt to Busoni for whom the concert transcription was an essential part of their art.

This recording contains the majority of Grainger’s concert transcriptions of music by other composers (his few Bach arrangements are performed by Piers Lane on Bach Piano Transcriptions Volume 3). They range from the folk-inspired Irish Dances of Stanford, full of Grainger’s characteristically extrovert piano writing, to the hyper-romantic lushness and incredible pianistic sophistication of his Ramble on Love based on Richard Strauss’s ‘Rosenkavalier’. All are superbly played by Piers Lane.

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December 2011

Grainger's eclectic idiosyncratic piano transcriptions, despatched with light-fingered clarity. Strauss swoons, Stephen Foster's all of a tingle. Excellent notes, too.

Lane boasts a fabulous technique … succulent performances

Musically enchanting fare … everything is played with unfaltering command … the recording and presentation are immaculate

A delight from start to finish

Heroic stamina by Piers Lane

Pianist Magazine

A fine selection … an easy listen that often delights the ear

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