Piers Lane - Bach: Piano Transcriptions, Vol. 8 - Eugen d'Albert

Hyperion�s Bach Piano Transcriptions series reaches volume 8, and continues to surprise and delight with a disc containing many first recordings. The controversial figure of Eugen d�Albert was one of the greatest pianists of his day and, although largely forgotten now, a composer of genuinely international renown. A sometime student at the Royal College of Music, d�Albert rejected his British upbringing and nailed his colours to the mast of German music. Bach was an important part of his performing career�and like other great nineteeth-century pianists, d�Albert saw in the monumental scale of the organ works an opportunity to synthesize the works of the Master with the expanded capabilities of the modern piano.