Piano Sonata in D minor (Dale)

from Dale: Piano Music (CDA67827)

1 Allegro deciso [12'18]
2 Molto adagio [1'12]
3 Variation 1 [1'24]
4 Variation 2. Molto adagio [2'48]
5 Variation 3. Allegretto con grazia [1'00]
6 Variation 4. Adagio maestoso [3'00]
7 Variation 5. Presto [1'41]
8 Variation 6. Tempo di Mazurka [2'24]
9 Variation 7. Prestissimo [1'29]
10 Andante [4'44]
11 Molto allegro – Lento [10'02]

42 minutes 2 seconds 11 tracks

‘Here is a disc to warm the hearts and minds of those who treasure romantic nostalgia … Benjamin Dale's hugely ambitious and unwieldy Piano Sonata is assuredly not for lovers of economy … it ...
‘Danny Driver's stylish and immaculate playing makes an outstanding case for some technically demanding music. One for English music aficionados’ (BBC Music Magazine)
‘Shades of Liszt and Wagner haunt the Piano Sonata completed in 1905 by the English composer Benjamin Dale, but this is more to do with matters of harmony, texture and the odd reminiscence than with a ...