https://www.pierslane.com/pages/biography2.html
Complete (21) Chopin Nocturnes by Candlelight:
Op. posth. in C minor Andante sostenuto (1837)
Op. posth. 72 No. 1 in E minor. Andante (1827–29)
Op. posth in C♯ minor. Lento con gran espressione (1830)
Op. 9 No. 1 in B♭ minor. Larghetto (1830–1832)
Op. 9 No. 2 in E♭ major. Andante (1830–1832)
Op. 9 No. 3 in B major. Allegretto (1830–1832)
Op. 15 No. 1 in F major. Andante cantabile (1830–1832)
Op. 15 No. 2 in F♯ major. Larghetto (1830–1832)
Op. 15 No. 3 in G minor. Lento (1833)
Op. 27 No. 1 in C♯ minor. Larghetto (1836)
Op. 27 No. 2 in D♭ major. Lento sostenuto (1836)
Op. 32 No. 1 in B major. Andante sostenuto (1837)
Op. 32 No. 2 in A♭ major. Lento (1837)
Interval
Op. 37 No. 1 in G minor. Andante sostenuto (1838)
Op. 37 No. 2 in G major. Andantino (1839)
Op. 48 No. 1 in C minor. Lento (1841)
Op. 48 No. 2 in F♯ minor. Andantino (1841)
Op. 55 No. 1 in F minor. Andante (1842–1844)
Op. 55 No. 2 in E♭ major. Lento sostenuto (1842–1844)
Op. 62 No. 1 in B major. Andante (1846)
Op. 62 No. 2 in E major. Lento (1846)
|
||||||
He is a popular judge at international piano competitions and has also judged the Menuhin International Violin Competition and the Michael Hill International Violin Competition. His extensive collaborations with violinist Tasmin Little CBE, actress Dame Patricia Routledge (in the Dame Myra Hess exploration Admission: One Shilling) and the Goldner String Quartet have been of major importance. He is a member of the recently formed chamber group Amici della Musica. In recent seasons Piers Lane performed three concerti at Carnegie Hall, including the New York premiere of Ferdinand Ries’s Piano Concerto No.8 for the debut of The Orchestra Now (TŌN), and world premieres of Carl Vine’s second Piano Concerto and Double Piano Concerto (with Kathryn Stott) Implacable Gifts, both written for him.
His extensive discography for Hyperion includes much admired recordings of rare romantic piano concertos, the complete Malcolm Williamson piano concertos, the complete Preludes and Etudes by Scriabin, transcriptions of Bach and Strauss, along with complete collections of Concert Etudes by Saint-Saëns, Moscheles and Henselt, and transcriptions by Grainger. He has also recorded eleven volumes of piano quintets with the Goldner String Quartet for Hyperion, many cds with Tasmin Little for Chandos, further solo and chamber cds for EMI, Phillips, Dutton, Unicorn Kanchana and Mozart Concertos for ABC Classics. Recent releases include a Hyperion followup to the popular ‘Piers Goes to Town’ and awaiting release is a disc of Russian variations. |
||||||
|
||||||
Piers Lane was Artistic Director of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music from 2007 to 2017, and from 2006 to 2013 directed the annual Myra Hess Day at the National Gallery in London. He has written and presented over 100 programmes for BBC Radio 3, including the 54-part series The Piano and has premiered works by such composers as Brett Dean, Colin Matthews, Richard Mills, Carl Vine and Malcolm Williamson. In the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Birthday Honours he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished services to the arts.
In 1994 he was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music, where he was a professor from 1989 to 2007. Piers holds Honorary Doctorates from two Australian Universities: Griffith and James Cook. In 2022 he was presented with the coveted Sir Bernard Heinz Award for services to music in Australia. Please visit www.pierslane.com for more information. |
![]() |
|||||
|