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    Danny Driver - Benjamin Dale: Piano Sonata, Prunella, Night Fancies (2011)

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    Danny Driver - Benjamin Dale: Piano Sonata, Prunella, Night Fancies (2011)

    Danny Driver - Benjamin Dale: Piano Sonata, Prunella, Night Fancies (2011)
    EAC Rip | Flac (Tracks + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 183 MB
    Genre: Classical | Label: Hyperion | Catalog Number: 67827

    The monumental Piano Sonata in D minor was composed by a young Benjamin Dale while he was still a student at the Royal Academy of Music. Dale’s contemporaries included the burgeoning composer-pianists Arnold Bax and York Bowen. Dale dedicated the sonata to his close friend Bowen, who gave the premiere of the work at the Academy in February 1905 and astonished listeners with its daring structural originality and thematic integrity and its breathtaking tonal colours. The elaborate form encompasses an impressive amalgamation of the traditional slow movement, scherzo and finale into an inventive set of variations. Also featured are Dale’s charming Prunella and Night Fancies in which Dale explores impressionistic colourings. Rather aptly, the final work on the disc is the first recording of York Bowen’s Miniature Suite in C major, the Humoresque of which is dedicated reciprocally to Dale.

    His expressive sensibility and remarkable dexterity make young British pianist Danny Driver the ideal advocate for this repertoire. His landmark interpretations of the Bowen Sonatas were met with huge critical acclaim and Driver performs this incredibly virtuosic music with apparent ease, passion and lyricism. This disc of eclectic and intricate piano music will surely enhance his reputation as one of Britain’s finest pianists.

    Composer: Benjamin Dale, York Bowen
    Performer: Danny Driver

    Reviews: Given that the pianist Danny Driver has to date committed two full releases to the music of York Bowen (1884–1961)—one to the Third and Fourth piano concertos, the other to the complete piano sonatas—it is not surprising to find him recording a disc of the music of the British composer’s contemporary and good friend Benjamin Dale (1885–1943). Though Dale’s output was rather meager, there was an original and creative mind at work behind each of his compositions. The Piano Sonata, for instance, though written over a period of some four years, shows him to not only be a composer of daring structure but a musically engaging one as well. At least one would assume so just by the pianists who took up the work in the earlier part of the last century: Moura Lympany, Benno Moiseiwitsch, Myra Hess, along with Bowen (an excellent pianist himself), who also premiered the work in its numerous compositional stages from 1902 to 1905. Danny Driver proves to be an excellent guide to this music and a worthy addition to the already impressive list of pianists who once counted the work as part of their repertoire. He takes the time to relish in the sometimes bombastic, sometimes lyrical, yet always elegant writing of the composition, paying ever-careful attention to the numerous details—the various articulations from staccato and legato to tenuto and portato throughout the score, along with the frequent indications of subtle tempo changes ranging from rallentando to stringendo that always seem to find their way back to the original tempo. The quiet ending of the massive sonata leads to two shorter works of the composer’s, the simple, lyrical Prunella and the slightly more contemplative and at moments quirky Night Fancies . Driver’s non-fussy way with these works pays huge dividends as the music is allowed to speak for itself. The short work by Bowen, the Miniature Suite , is given as fabulous a reading as the rest, its light and humorous character serving as the perfect foil to the massive and powerful edifice of the sonata. Driver dashes off the numerous glissandos and hand crossings easily, saving some of his most elegant and refined playing for the beautiful little Nocturne middle movement. All in all some excellent playing of some far too little-known works. Driver continues to be a wonderful spokesman for the lesser-known gems of the pianistic world. I for one am looking forward to his next project with great enthusiasm. In other words, along with some very fine sound engineering from Hyperion (as usual), a release worth seeking out as much for the music as for the playing.

    Tracklisting:

    Piano Sonata in D minor [42'02] English Français Deutsch
    1. Movement 1: Allegro deciso [12'18]
    Slow movement, Scherzo and Finale
    2. Movement 2a: Molto adagio [1'12]
    3. Movement 2b: Variation 1 [1'24]
    4. Movement 2c: Variation 2. Molto adagio [2'48]
    5. Movement 2d: Variation 3. Allegretto con grazia [1'00]
    6. Movement 2e: Variation 4. Adagio maestoso [3'00]
    7. Movement 2f, Scherzo: Variation 5. Presto [1'41]
    8. Movement 2g: Variation 6. Tempo di Mazurka [2'24]
    9. Movement 2h: Variation 7. Prestissimo [1'29]
    10. Movement 2i: Andante [4'44]
    11. Movement 2j, Finale: Molto allegro – Lento [10'02]

    12. Prunella [2'44]

    13. Night Fancies [9'01]

    Miniature Suite in C major Op 14 [11'21] York Bowen (1884-1961) English Français Deutsch
    14. Humoresque [3'03]
    15. Nocturne [5'20]
    16. Scherzo: Finale [2'58]

    Total duration: 65 minutes 8 seconds

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