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…these artists make the best possible case for these rarely heard pieces. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Apr 2007
Catalogue No: CDA67555
Label: Hyperion
Series: The Romantic Piano Concerto
Length: 65 minutes

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Alnaes: Piano Concerto in D major, Op. 27

Work length31:30

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Piers Lane (piano)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Litton

I. Allegro moderato

Track length12:52

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II. Lento

Track length8:47

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III. Allegro assai, tempo di valse

Track length9:51

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Sinding: Piano Concerto in D flat major, Op. 6

Work length33:37

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Piers Lane (piano)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrew Litton

I. Allegro non troppo

Track length12:49

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II. Andante

Track length10:00

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III. Allegro non assai

Track length10:48

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Hyperions record of the month of April is the forty-second release in our prestigious Romantic Piano Concerto series. We went to Norway for this oneand rightly so as the recording reveals that theres more to Norwegian Romantic Piano Concertos than Grieg in A minor. While Sinding is at least a name to most people (if only for The Rustle of Spring) Alns is almost completely unknown outside his native land, yet it is perhaps this latters concerto which makes the bigger impression. This is a glorious late romantic work in an idiom akin to Rachmaninov; indeed there are passages which seem to quote the Russians fourth concertoexcept that the Alns was written first. Did Rachmaninov perhaps hear an early performance? The Sinding is a monolithic three-movement work where all the material is based on one theme which undergoes many Lisztian transformations. The piece is hugely virtuosic, some may say bombasticbut some may also say thats what this series is aboutand its all good fun! Were delighted to continue our relationship with Andrew Litton as the new principal conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic and here he is joined by RPC stalwart Piers Lane in his sixth contribution to the series.

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July 2007

…these artists make the best possible case for these rarely heard pieces.

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For the 42nd issue in its 'Romantic Piano Concerto' series, Hyperion turns for inspiration to Norway and, in a first recording of Eyvind Alnæs's Concerto, they light up the sky like an aurora borealis. Here is music very much for those in love with the most succulent romanticism, with lush, lavishly decorated melodies and a fin-de-siècle array of props. The opening Allegromoderato follows one sumptuous gesture with another and in the central Lento the pianist weaves starry figuration around the orchestra's full-blooded outcry. In the finale all fashionable gloom is cast aside for a rollicking waltz guaranteed to sweep its dancers off the floor. So for those wishing to venture beyond the Grieg or MacDowell concertos such music is heavensent, particularly when played by Piers Lane with such enviable poetry, fluency and aplomb.
Few pianists could have entered into the romantic spirit more infectiously, though even he is hard-pressed to make a convincing case for Sinding's less heart-warming Concerto. Here, the music remains more effortful than inspired, huffing and puffing its way through one inflated gesture after another. Yet listening to Lane in the finale is to be reminded of playing as to the romantic manner born. Andrew Litton and the Bergen Philharmonic are a perfect foil for their scintillating and indefatigable soloist, and Hyperion's sound balance is impeccable.

June 2007

For the 42nd issue in its "Romantic Piano Concerto" series, Hyperion turns for inspiration to Norway and, in a first recording of Eyvind Alnæ's Concerto, they light up the sky like an aurora borealis. Here is music very much for those in love with the most succulent romanticism, with lush, lavishly decorated melodies and a fin de siècle array of props. ...such music is heavensent, particularly when played by Piers Lane with such enviable poetry, fluency and aplomb. Andrew Litton and the Bergen Philharmonic are a perfect foil for their scintillating and indefatigable soloist, and Hyperion's sound balance is impeccable.

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