Buy? £13.99
Recording details: October 2004
Henry Wood Hall, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Jeremy Hayes
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: May 2005
Total duration: 71 minutes 2 seconds
View sleeve notes/artwork
'This is a welcome return to the recording studio for a British pianist who has maintained a consistently high standard for many years. Hamish Milne is associated with Russian music, so he is a natural choice for a selection of Russian music transcriptions - Volume Five of a hopefully long series from Hyperion … If we buy this CD, more will surely be recorded, so don't hesitate, please' (Pianist)
'Milne plays the more outgoing works with the sharp articulation and gestural clarity that makes his Medtner so refreshing (his left-hand profile is especially notable) - and he gives the more restrained of the Siloti bonbons (wisely scattered throughout the disc) the delicacy they need. Good sound and excellent notes. All in all, a fine continuation of a most welcome series' (Fanfare, USA)
Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV541
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) & Alexander Goedicke (1877-1957)
|
||
 |
Part 1: Prelude
[3'03]
|
|
|
Part 2: Fugue
[4'25]
|
|
|
||
Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV35
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) & Alexander Siloti (1863-1945)
|
||
|
Movement 1: Prelude
[1'47]
|
|
Prelude and 'Fiddle' Fugue in D minor, BWV539
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) & Alexander Goedicke (1877-1957)
|
||
|
Part 1: Prelude
[2'18]
|
|
|
Part 2: Fugue
[5'57]
|
|
Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major, BWV1068
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) & Alexander Siloti (1863-1945)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Sonata No 2 in A minor, BWV1003
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) & Alexander Siloti (1863-1945)
|
||
|
Movement 3: Andante
[4'35]
|
|
|
||
Sonata in E flat major, BWV1031
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) & Alexander Siloti (1863-1945)
|
||
|
Movement 2: Siciliano
[2'11]
|
|
Toccata and Fugue in D minor 'Dorian', BWV538
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) & Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)
|
||
|
Part 1: Toccata
[5'26]
|
|
|
Part 2: Fugue
[8'25]
|
This recital is underpinned by monumental transcriptions by Goedicke and Catoire whose pianistic complexities comprehensively interpret those areas of performance practice, notably tempo and rubato, which Bach left to the performer’s instinct. At once audacious and characterful, these pillars of the genre are offset by delicate transcriptions by Alexander Siloti which serve as a fascinating and fastidious codification of the aristocratic pianism of the day.
Concluding Hamish Milne’s masterful programme comes Kabalevsky’s mighty transcription of the ‘Dorian’ Toccata and Fugue; whatever may be lacking in subtlety, one can hardly deny the thrilling power of the climaxes.
Hamish Milne’s performances are a revelation. In the monumental grandeur of his playing, contrasted with an exquisite range of colour and glorious singing lines, his playing embodies the tradition of the golden age of pianism from which these transcriptions emerged.
Other albums in this series |
|
|
|
Buy? £13.99
2 CDs for the price of 1
|
|
