D'Albert: Complete Bach Transcriptions/D'Albert: Symphony in F major; Seejungfräulein | CD review

Lane(Hyperion)Kasyan/Osnabrück Symphony/Bäumer(CPO)Pianist-composer Eugen d'Albert (1864-1932) is one of classical music's great eccentrics and still controversial in some quarters. Born in Glasgow to Anglo-French parents, he trained in London, rapidly making a name for himself as a teenage prodigy. Aged 18, however, he went to Weimar to study with Liszt, and two years later elected to make Germany his home, marking his decision with an ill-advised press statement denouncing both the Briti...

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