Adrian Leaper - Hebridean Symphony - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Howard Shelley - Piano Sonatas [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/11/2011

Frank Bridge is today recognized as one of the most gifted figures in British musical life before World War I. His Piano Quintet, a work of personal significance prompted by the absence of his fiancée, is notable for it's passionate, lyrical and forceful language, the Rachmaninov-like technical demands of the piano part calling for a virtuoso pianist. Debussy described Cyril Scott's exotic harmonic language as Inchan intoxication for the earInch, and the First Piano Quintet is a multi-faceted work which mirrors Scott's flamboyant public persona while maintaining a genuinely poetic inner beauty.

Adrian Leaper - Norwegian Airs [COMPACT DISCS] date 02/05/1993