Richard Lane

Richard Lane composed most of his 500 or so works for his circle of musician friends and each piece reflects the affection and admiration he felt for each of them. This little suite for flute and guit...

The Suite for oboe, horn and strings was written between December, 1990, and January, 1991, for two close friends of the composer: oboe player Lucinda Fisher and hornist Richard Schwartz, who performe...

Richard Lane dedicated with pleasure smaller works to friends or students. All have his caracteristic musical signature, a synthesis between charm and an exceptional sense for melodic and harmonic for...

The Suite for oboe, horn and strings was written between December, 1990, and January, 1991, for two close friends of the composer: oboe player Lucinda Fisher and hornist Richard Schwartz, who performe...

The Suite for oboe, horn and strings was written between December, 1990, and January, 1991, for two close friends of the composer: oboe player Lucinda Fisher and hornist Richard Schwartz, who performe...

In 1966, New York clarinetists Jack Kreiselman and Daniel H. Leeson were engaged to play the two Mendelssohn concert pieces at the Brooklyn Museum (broadcast live on WNYC radio). Daniel Leeson asked R...

In 1963, I played in a trio with the astonishingly beautiful combination of clarinet, viola and piano. Mozart, with his trio ''Kegelstatt'' (KV. 498) from August 9, 1786, probably composed the first a...

Richard Lane composed this second trio for viola, B-flat clarinet and piano in 1981 at my request, as I had an excellent chamber music class at Queensborough Community College at the time. The premier...

Score and solo parts In early 1986, with the approaching Third International Viola d'amore Congress, July 10-12, 1986 at The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA, I spoke to my friend Richard La...

In early 1986, with the approaching Third International Viola d'amore Congress, July 10-12, 1986 at The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA, I spoke to my friend Richard Lane to consider writing...

The Palisades Virtuosi, now officially in its fourth season, was formed by three musician friends (Margaret Swinchoski, flute; Donald Mokrynski, clarinet; Ron Levy, piano). Quickly exhausting the exis...

Talent Night At The Zoo is an album of seven short, delightful and inventive pieces, ranging in difficulty from beginning to end of intermediate level. The octaves often used, as well as some tricky r...

Most of the more than 500 works that Richard Lane (1933-2004) composed between 1948 and 2004 and systematically dated (month/year) are dedicated to his numerous, loyal friendships - musicians, student...

These 3 Impromptus are excellent examples of a composer in full mastery of his art, capable of writing beautiful music at any level of difficulty. Impromptu I (without dedication, but most likely for...

Richard Lane dedicated with pleasure smaller works to friends or students. All have his caracteristic musical signature, a synthesis between charm and an exceptional sense for melodic and harmonic for...