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Piers Lane, Piano
“London-based Australian pianist Piers Lane added a superb mixture of poetry and drama to his crystalline pianism, Davis ensuring that the orchestra delivered the music’s often ebullient sophistication lightly. An encore of Beethoven refracted through the lens of Dudley Moore provided cheeky wit.” ★★★★ Tony Way, The Age, November 24th 2019
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...one of the most prolific and well-known clarinet soloists of the past quarter century (The Clarinet, America)
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“… Wallfisch gives the finest account on cello I’ve ever heard… and York voices every line with superb clarity and coherence, so crucial in this turbulent work…” BBC Music Magazine, September 2016
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Classical Music Magazine: These Women’s Works – Tasmin Little/Chandos
Posted By: Sinead O'Carroll, 4th February 2019
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Tasmin Little and Martin Roscoe: Hugh Canning’s ‘Weekend’s highlight’ at Aldeburgh Festival 2020
Posted By: Sinead O'Carroll, 3rd September 2020
Franck’s work has become something of a party piece for Little and Roscoe, the violinist at the peak of her form, notwithstanding her (now delayed) intention to retire at the 2020 Proms, and the pianist dispatching the fiendish keyboard part with breathless élan. Both conveyed the restless eroticism of a composer who, near the end of his life, had not yet recovered from his youthful encounter with the intoxicated chromaticism of the Venusberg music from Wagner’s Tannhäuser.
If Little, when she finally retires, goes out on this kind of form, she can be well pleased with her decision. She remains our most versatile violinist, always a searching and fresh interpreter of the most familiar scores….
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5 star Review for Tasmin Little and Piers Lane ‘Little and Lane steer a fine series to an equally fine conclusion.’
Posted By: Sinead O'Carroll, 27th July 2020
British Violin Sonatas Volume 3 (Tasmin Little, Piers Lane)
Little and Lane steer a fine series to an equally fine conclusion.
by Brett Allen-Bayes on July 27, 2020
*****
In this, the third and final instalment of an excellent series devoted to 20th-century British chamber works for violin and piano, the very fine violinist Tasmin Little has chosen to farewell with a lesser-known selection of works than in her previous instalments. Little has always been an enquiring musician who is always up for a challenge as those who have attended her local concerts will attest.
Those concerts have also attested to her love of British composers. Now considering retirement from the stage, Little has chosen to consolidate that love with a triptych of fine albums featuring the sympathetic pianism of Piers Lane – and here is a true partnership, rather than violinist and accompanist, as they set out to present rarer choices for the third album in this important set of recordings.
Firstly should be noted the world premiere recording of The Hart’s Grace (2016), a work of “dreamy intensity” written especially for Little by the contemporary composer, Francis Brown. Each of the three central works in this recital have had troubled histories and have remained underappreciated. Alwyn’s early Sonatina was disowned by the composer as juvenilia and yet has thankfully survived to receive this gracious performance. Similarly, York Bowen’s work remained little-known or appreciated until a couple of decades ago; and here he’s represented by his sonata, Op. 112, an intense and perhaps rather neurotic work from the 1940s. This contrasts well with Ireland’s Second Sonata, dating from the troubled 1910s.
These works are ideally suited to a player of Little’s character and commitment, and Piers Lane only adds to this intoxicating and often almost febrile mix.
All of these choices offer much to show the talents of these musicians, for Little is a giving player with a a passionate style and an enquiring mind; the perfect foil lies in her choice of pianist, Piers Lane and hopefully together the two of them, with this excellent recording, can re-present this overlooked music to an appreciative public. Now, can Chandos please release all three volumes as a set?
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Harrogate International Festival moves online: Tasmin Little @ Sunday, July 2020
Posted By: Sinead O'Carroll, 23rd July 2020
