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Piers Lane - Hill & Boyle: Piano Concertos (2016) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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Date: 5 Apr 2017 14:19:31

Piers Lane - Hill & Boyle: Piano Concertos (2016) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Piers Lane - Hill & Boyle: Piano Concertos (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 80:05 minutes | 1.26 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

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.

Hyperion continue their exploration of the Romantic piano concerto with 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, even in its bold, expansive last movement. Hill had a vast output of orchestral and chamber works and rarely wasted an idea: the four-movement concerto is a reworking of an earlier piano sonata, also heard here. He conducted the first Australian performance of George Frederick Boyle's 1911 piano concerto, thought to be the first substantial piece in this form in the Antipodes. Altogether graver than Hill's, it has a final movement to rival anything coming out of Europe at the time.**** –Observer, 23/10/16

A very welcome addition to this series; the Boyle is the stand-out. MusicWeb,Dec'16 /// Lane and friends make a great case for these Australian Romantic concertos. **** –BBC Music Magazine, Jan'17

Volume 69 in Hyperion's continuing survey of romantic piano concertos takes an Antipodean turn with two 20th-century works by Australians Alfred Hill (1869-1960) and George Frederick Boyle (1886-1948). 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. Hill's A major Concerto was written 30 years later yet seems, if anything, more anachronistic (and not just in the antique titling of its four movements). Pretty, sylvan-like and easy on the ear, it too often sounds like elegant but obvious pastiche. Hill's Piano Sonata offers passing interest as the source of the later concerto. Like the Boyle, it receives its first recording here. Piers Lane and the Adelaide Symphony play with conviction and make a persuasive case for the Boyle if not for the Hill.*** –Classical Ear,Dec'16

TRACKLIST
01 - Hill - Piano Concerto in A major - 1 The Question Adagio – A (10:31)
02 - Hill - Piano Concerto in A major - 2 Intermezzo (Fancies) Pr (02:03)
03 - Hill - Piano Concerto in A major - 3 Nocturne (Homage to Chop (07:15)
04 - Hill - Piano Concerto in A major - 4 Finale (Contrasts) Alle (06:23)
05 - Boyle - Piano Concerto in D minor - 1 Moderato (10:20)
06 - Boyle - Piano Concerto in D minor - 2 Tranquillo, ma non tropp (07:47)
07 - Boyle - Piano Concerto in D minor - 3 Allegro energico, ma non (11:01)
08 - Hill - Piano Sonata in A major - 1 The Question Lento – Al (10:08)
09 - Hill - Piano Sonata in A major - 2 Intermezzo (Fancies) Pr (01:59)
10 - Hill - Piano Sonata in A major - 3 Nocturne (Homage to Chop (06:21)
11 - Hill - Piano Sonata in A major - 4 Finale (Contrasts) Alle (06:17)

PERSONNEL
Piers Lane (piano)
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
Johannes Fritzsch (conductor)

Dynamic Range Report

foobar2000 1.3.7 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2017-04-05 17:01:26

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Analyzed: Piers Lane; Johannes Fritzsch: Adelaide Symphony Orchestra / The Romantic Piano Concerto - 69 (1-7)
Piers Lane / The Romantic Piano Concerto - 69 (8-11)
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR15 -2.69 dB -24.08 dB 10:32 01-Hill (A): Piano Concerto in A major - 1: The Question: Adagio – Allegro moderato
DR12 -13.17 dB -29.82 dB 2:04 02-Hill (A): Piano Concerto in A major - 2: Intermezzo (Fancies): Presto
DR12 -11.51 dB -31.67 dB 7:16 03-Hill (A): Piano Concerto in A major - 3: Nocturne (Homage to Chopin): Adagio con moto
DR14 -0.30 dB -21.87 dB 6:23 04-Hill (A): Piano Concerto in A major - 4: Finale (Contrasts): Allegro
DR13 -1.98 dB -21.29 dB 10:20 05-Boyle (G): Piano Concerto in D minor - 1: Moderato
DR17 -7.05 dB -30.06 dB 7:47 06-Boyle (G): Piano Concerto in D minor - 2: Tranquillo, ma non troppo lento
DR14 -0.85 dB -21.18 dB 11:01 07-Boyle (G): Piano Concerto in D minor - 3: Allegro energico, ma non troppo vivace
DR15 -7.07 dB -27.58 dB 10:08 08-Hill (A): Piano Sonata in A major - 1: The Question: Lento – Allegro
DR13 -12.14 dB -31.13 dB 2:00 09-Hill (A): Piano Sonata in A major - 2: Intermezzo (Fancies): Presto
DR16 -11.56 dB -34.56 dB 6:21 10-Hill (A): Piano Sonata in A major - 3: Nocturne (Homage to Chopin): Adagio
DR14 -5.10 dB -24.09 dB 6:18 11-Hill (A): Piano Sonata in A major - 4: Finale (Contrasts): Allegro
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Number of tracks: 11
Official DR value: DR14

Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2143 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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