Frederic Lamond - Symphony In A , From The Scottish Highlands, Etc

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Frederic Archibald Lamond (28 January 1868–21 February 1948) was a Scottish classical pianist and composer, and the second-to-last surviving pupil of Franz Liszt.

Early life

Lamond was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and died in Stirling, Scotland. After exhausting the resources of his home town, he continued his musical study abroad in Germany under Max Schwarz and Hans von Bülow. He studied with Franz Liszt at Weimar and Rome in 1885, and in London in 1886. In 1886 Lamond also met Johannes Brahms who coached him in his own works. Lamond also became acquainted with Anton Rubinstein in Germany, hearing him conduct and play many times there, and later in Russia in the 1890s.

Career

In addition to becoming one of the early champions of Brahms' piano works, Lamond was considered the primary authority on Beethoven's piano music before Artur Schnabel, and Breitkopf & Härtel published his edition of the piano sonatas. In 1893 Lamond was invited by Vasily Safonov to Moscow to play Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto in B flat minor, Op. 23, at the request of the composer. While in Russia, he met Alexander Scriabin, whose Second Sonata, Op.19, Lamond later played. In the 1920s and 30s, Lamond recorded many works of Beethoven (including an acoustic recording of the Emperor Concerto complete under Eugene Goossens, fils, for HMV) and Liszt, as well as a scattered assortment of smaller works by other composers. While not the greatest of technicians by the time of his recordings — reviews from his youth praise his accuracy and bravura in such taxing works as the Brahms Paganini Variations, Op.35 — his graceful phrasing and singing tone are quite remarkable.

Later life

Despite his declining technique, he continued to concertize until the end of his life, and was in Prague in 1938 when the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia. Forced to leave most of his belongings behind, including an unfinished novel, he left for England. A friend later recounted Lamond's flight: stopped at the border, "A Gestapo officer insisted on seeing his passport. 'You can see it, he said, 'but I will not allow you to take it into your hands.' The officer then asked him, 'Are you an Aryan?' to which Lamond replied, 'No, I am a monkey!'[citation needed] Lamond was a courageously outspoken man who would stand no nonsense."

A few months after Lamond's death at the age of eighty, the last of the Liszt pupils, the Portuguese pianist José Vianna da Motta died, also eighty years old.

Frederic Lamond was a highly respected teacher, among whose pupils were Gunnar Johansen, Jan Chiapusso, Erwin Nyiregyhazi, and Victor Borge.


Hyperion’s Record of the Month for March takes us to Scotland in pursuit of two Scottish-born piano virtuosi whose compositions have languished beneath the highland mists for too long. Born prematurely as a result of a steamboat collision on the Clyde, Frederic Lamond lived a short walk from Eugen d’Albert in Glasgow. The two became Liszt pupils and their musical abilities were admired by Richard Strauss, Hans von Bülow and Johannes Brahms. Lamond’s Symphony in A major, his only symphony, was begun in 1885 – the composer was just twenty-one – and published in 1893. In four movements, a sense of generous assurance flows through this work which sits comfortably between Beethoven, looking backward, and Mahler in the future. Perhaps one should think of Brahms, yet Lamond adds a refreshing breath of Scottish air into an otherwise-Germanic climate. The Overture from the Scottish Highlands tells the story of one Quentin Durward, a stalwart of Louis XI’s Scottish bodyguard. His Burgundian adventures betray a sense of homesickness; Scottish themes and droned bass lines prevail. Sword Dance, taken from Lamond’s opera A life in the Scottish Highlands, presents a scene of bucolic exuberance, fancy footwork and Scotch-snap rhythms combining in a work of irresistible panache. The disc opens with Eugen d’Albert’s Overture to Esther. The Biblical Esther had little time for honour, or even religion come to that, and d’Albert’s overture similarly throw caution to the wind, before eventually she, and he, are won back to the arms of King Ahasuerus.

1.Overture to 'Esther', Op 8 [12'30] Eugen d' Albert (1864-1932)
Symphony in A major, Op 3 Frederic Lamond (1868-1948)
2.Movement 1: Allegro moderato [8'35]
3.Movement 2: Allegro vivace, quasi presto [7'35]
4.Movement 3: Andante moderato [7'41]
5.Movement 4: Allegro con spirito [7'15]
6.Ouvertüre 'Aus dem schottischen Hochlande', Op 4 [9'17] Frederic Lamond (1868-1948)
Eine Liebe im schottischen Hochlande Frederic Lamond (1868-1948)
7.Extract: Sword Dance [6'14]

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