Release Date: 01 January 2005
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571174952
Genres: Classical  Solo Instrumental  
Release Date: 01 January 2005
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571174952
Genres: Classical  Solo Instrumental  
Description
Adolf von Henselt was one of the greatest virtuosi of the nineteenth century. His trail-blazing études â at once impossibly challenging for the performer and ardently lyrical for the listener â were to influence a generation of composers, especially in Russia where Henselt settled.
Having studied with Hummel in Weimar, the âHenselt piano techniqueâ is now regarded as the link between that of the older composer and that to be developed by Franz Liszt. Notorious for his ability to play unfeasibly wide-spreading chords while maintaining a miraculous legato line, Henseltâs fanatical devotion to technical pianistic exercises should come as no surprise. The two sets of études represent the codification of his diligence, yet their worth today derives as much from their musical value as their technical complexity.
Piers Lane, whose impressive discography reveals him to be something of an étude-ist himself, more than rises to the challenge.
Tracklisting
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica
Laurence Perkins
Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin
English National Opera Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Steven Osborne
Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo
Steven Isserlis, Philharmonia Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi
Piers Lane
Yvonne Kenny, Piers Lane
Piers Lane
Piers Lane
Piers Lane
Piers Lane
Piers Lane
Piers Lane