The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 69 - Hill (A) & Boyle (G): Piano Concertos Piers Lane, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Fritzsch

Piano Concerto in A major[26'04]Alfred Hill (1869-1960)
Piers Lane (piano), Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Fritzsch (conductor)
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The Question: Adagio – Allegro moderato[10'32]
2
Intermezzo (Fancies): Presto[2'04]
3
Nocturne (Homage to Chopin): Adagio con moto[7'16]
4
Finale (Contrasts): Allegro[6'12]
Piano Concerto in D minor[28'57]George Frederick Boyle (1886-1948)
Piers Lane (piano), Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Fritzsch (conductor)
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Moderato[10'20]
6
Tranquillo, ma non troppo lento[7'47]
7
Allegro energico, ma non troppo vivace[10'50]
Piano Sonata in A major[24'47]Alfred Hill (1869-1960)
Piers Lane (piano)
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The Question: Lento – Allegro[10'08]
9
Intermezzo (Fancies): Presto[2'00]
10
Nocturne (Homage to Chopin): Adagio[6'21]
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Finale (Contrasts): Allegro[6'18]

Alfred Hill and George Boyle enjoyed distinguished careers in their native Australia and abroad—Boyle’s students in New York included Copland and Barber—though both are all-too-little known today. The piano concerto and sonata by Hill—the ‘grand old man’ of Australian musical life at the time—are effectively the same work, the one an orchestral expansion of the other.