Composed by Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse
with Bohumila Jedlickova
2. Etudes (8), Op 51 No.2 in C minor
Composed by Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse
with Bohumila Jedlickova
3. Etudes (8), Op 51 No.3 in D flat major
Composed by Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse
with Bohumila Jedlickova
4. Etudes (8), Op 51 No.4 in C sharp minor
Composed by Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse
with Bohumila Jedlickova
5. Etudes (8), Op 51 No.5 in D major
Composed by Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse
with Bohumila Jedlickova
6. Etudes (8), Op 51 No.6 in D minor
Composed by Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse
with Bohumila Jedlickova
7. Etudes (8), Op 51 No.7 in E flat major
Composed by Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse
with Bohumila Jedlickova
8. Etudes (8), Op 51 No.8 in E flat minor
Composed by Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse
with Bohumila Jedlickova
9. Etudes (4), Op 60 No.1 in E major
Composed by Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse
with Bohumila Jedlickova
10. Etudes (4), Op 60 No.2 in E major
Composed by Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse
with Bohumila Jedlickova
11. Etudes (4), Op 60 No.3 in F major
Composed by Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse
with Bohumila Jedlickova
12. Etudes (4), Op 60 No.4 in F minor
Composed by Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse
with Bohumila Jedlickova
13. Allegro di bravura, Op 50 in A minor
Composed by Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse
with Bohumila Jedlickova
Late Piano Works,C.E.F. Weyse,Marco Polo,Classical,Classical Composers
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Late Russian Romantics
Alexander Nikolayevich Skryabin , Nikolay Medtner , Sergey Rachmaninov , Vladimir Horowitz , and Alexander Scriabin Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000290I Release Date: 1994-06-14 |
Tracks:
- Alexander Scriabin: Feuillet d'album in E-flat major, Op. 45 No.1, Andante piacevole
- Alexander Scriabin: Etude in F-sharp minor, Op. 8 No. 2
- Alexander Scriabin: Etude in B-flat minor, Op.8 No. 11
- Alexander Scriabin: Etude in D-flat major, Op. 8 No. 8
- Alexander Scriabin: Etude in F-sharp major, Op. 42 No.3
- Alexander Scriabin: etude in F-sharp major, Op. 42 No. 3
- Alexander Scriabin: Etude in F-sharp major, Op. 42 No.4
- Alexander Scriabin: Etude in C-sharp minor, Op. 42 No. 5
- Alexander Scriabin: Etude, Op.65 No.3
- Alexander Scriabin: 2 Poemes, Op. 69, No. 1 - Allegretto
- Alexander Scriabin: 2 Poemes, Op. 69, No. 2 - Allegretto
- Alexander Scriabin: Vers la flamme (poeme), Op. 72
- Alexander Scriabin: Feuillet d'album, Op.58
- Nicolai Medtner: Fairy Tale in A major, Op. 51 No.3
- Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor
- Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor
- Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor
- Sergei Rachmaninov: Prelude in G-sharp minor
- Sergei Rachmaninov: Moment musical in B minor
- Sergei Rachmaninov: Etude- Tableau in E- flat minor
- Sergei Rachmaninov: etude- Tableau in E-flat minor
- Sergei Rachmaninov: Etude- Tableau in D major
Amazon.com essential recording
Russian composers brought playing from Horowitz that was invariably involved and riveting. He was personally close to Rachmaninoff and commands the sprawling B-flat Minor Sonata as few others have done. It's a conflation of the composer's 1914 original and Horowitz's 1931 alterations. Elsewhere on the disc, the Medtner Fairy Tale is a delightful romp, and Scriabin's often impenetrable mysticism is set forth with appropriately Russian brooding. Here, and in the Rachmaninoff études-tableaux, Horowitz's delicacy and power argue convincingly for music that lies close to his heart. --Dan DavisCustomer Reviews:
One of his best.......2005-07-29
Brilliant but lots of eccentricities.......2004-05-12
This is nowhere more present than on this CD in which he gives his beloved Scriabin yet new meanings and interpretations with all the fire, passion, detail and finesse one can muster. The clarity of the notes is secondary to the overall architecture of the small pieces. As Horowitz aged the length of his performed pieces shrunk so that he achieved an almost crystaline clarity in the few short ones he did play.
Ever the consumate artist, one really wonders what the guiding force of his interpretations was. Whether it is the lighting quick runs or the thundering chords or his almost unique ability to highlight all the inner voices of a piece, there was something almost undefinable about his approach to the piano.
The Rachmaninoff Second was extremely idiosyncratic with none of the "waves of sound" one usually associates with the composer. It is almost as if he transformed the titanic work into a collection of brilliant miniatures, each startling in its own way but by necessity only vaguely related to the others. The best rendition of the fabulous second has to be Van Cliburn's performance in Moscow where the stunning aspect (apart from the fact that he played the original setting) was the overall architecture and organiaation, the totality of the three movements and their cyclic thematic resonance. He (Van Cliburn) also brought a stately grandeur to the sonata that is sorely lacking in this rendition.
Oddly enough, the same problem holds true for the selections of Etude-Tableaux. Again we are in miniature land with brilliance and ardor but the structure again seems to have gotten lost. It is a case of not being able to see the forest for all the stunning trees. The Medtner was a fine choice and rendered with a poetic touch and much attention to detail.
Horowitz at his most masterful and tasteful.......2003-07-15
Still Unequaled.......2003-06-29
Horowitz, who at the age of eleven met the Scriabin, once described the composer's music as "super-sensuous, super-mysterious, super-romantic. It's all a little bit overboard." The pianist was ideally suited by temperament to play that Scriabin's highly charged, nervous music. Horowitz once described Scriabin's music as "super-sensuous, super-mysterious, super-romantic. It's all a little bit overboard." There have been numerous pianists who have equaled Horowitz's Scriabin technically (most notably Marc-Andre Hamelin) but none have captured the breathless, nervous quality of this music as has Horowitz.
The Scriabin selections were recorded at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in 1972. Part of the success of Horowitz's Scriabin is his clarity, both musical and technical. The pianist adopts an almost structural approach to these works, which runs against the tendency by some others to slather them in Romantic excess. Horowitz uses less sustaining pedal than is customary in these works (as in the stunning Etude in Thirds, Op. 8, No. 10), although one would never think of calling Horowitz's Scriabin "dry." In the later more mystical works, he uses slightly more pedal, but never drowns the work in sustaining syrup as all too many pianists do. Even in Scriabin's most twisted melodic and pianistic contortions, clarity and balance are maintained. Horowitz also manages to produce a stunning fortissimo (as in Vers la Flamme) without hammering the piano to death or throwing the lines out of balance.
The Medtner Fairy Tale heard here was originally released on a Goodyear Tire promotional record in Christmas of 1969, but never attained widespread release until 1992. Horowitz's boisterous, flirtatious performance gets to the heart of the matter. Although the pianist gave all-Medtner recitals before leaving Russia in 1925, and occasionally programmed Medtner's works in the 1930s and early 1940s, his advocacy of the composer doesn't seemed to have gained any headway in his lifetime. Sadly, this is the only Horowitz Medtner recording to have been released.
Horowitz idolized Rachmaninoff, and the elder pianist/composer admired Horowitz in a kind of uncle/nephew way. The two had a close friendship from 1928 until the composer's death in 1943, and it was Rachmaninoff who sought out psychological help for Horowitz after the pianist's nervous breakdown in 1936. Rachmaninoff often had a complicated relationship with his own compositions. Such was the case with the Second Sonata which was composed in 1913, and severely revised in 1931, when the composer was placing greater value in brevity. Horowitz had played the Second Sonata (in the original version) at his conservatory graduation recital in 1920, and felt that the 1931 revision was too drastically cut. Rachmaninoff, who was never fully satisfied with either version of the piece, agreed and left it to Horowitz to put together a "compromise" version for his own performances. Unfortunately, we have no recording of his 1940 performances (the head of RCA, Charles O'Connell, no fan of either Horowitz or Rachmaninoff, scotched plans for the pianists to record the composer's Second Suite for two pianos and the two piano version of the Symphonic Dances) and therefore we have no record of the revisions Rachmaninoff approved. However, Horowitz did resurrect the work in 1968, the 25th anniversary of Rachmaninoff's death. This performance, recorded that December in Carnegie Hall, is one of the most electrifying piano recordings ever made. Horowitz, at the very top of his form, brings a lithe, pantherlike quality to this performance. He knows how to balance Rachmaninoff's thick piano writing to recreate the composer's swirling anguish, and for all the lushness of Horowitz's conception, the pianist's tone remains limber, spare, prizing clarity over histrionics. Even when all Hell breaks loose, the pianist remains solidly in control. Thirty-five years after it was recorded, it remains the definitive version Rachmaninoff's Second Sonata, and one can sense the approving spirit of the composer in the tumultuous audience response.
The shorter pieces are equally convincing. The Prelude recalls the jingling bells of a Russian Troika, while the Moment Musicaux is given an inwardly brooding performance. The Etudes-Tableaux are less melodic, more economical in texture, with an almost barbaric rhythmic thrust. Horowitz concentrates on the epic, picturesque aspects of these works, and the controlled fury of the D Major has to be heard to be believed.
This reissue is a must for all lovers of great piano music. The sound is some of the best Horowitz received in the pre-digital era, and particularly fine in the live selections.
A monumental.......2003-03-12
Sonata 2 is also another reference point on this extremely difficult piece though I would say the best recording of the piece is Horowitz's 1980 recording ( regardless what piece's version we are referring to ). That recording is not as moving as this one but is much more powerful. Yet both of them which are totally different has confirmed how masterful Horowitz is on Rach's works.
We probably can't conclude the above statement to all the Scriabin works but not for these Etudes. Simple they are unrivaled.
Unfortunately the Great Rach's Etude Tableaux Op.39 No. 5 and Scriabin Etude Op. 8 No, 12 weren't included in this album but on another CD from the same SONY's Horowitz complete recording series. No doubt they are also the best recording of the pieces.
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Stephen Heller: Late Piano Works
Manufacturer: Cpo Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000AEOI Release Date: 1998-08-25 |
Tracks:
- Drei Standchen, Op.131: Andante Con Moto
- Drei Standchen, Op.131: Lento, Con Expressione
- Drei Standchen, Op.131: Allegro
- Voyage Autour De Ma Chambre, Op.140: Allegro Vivace
- Voyage Autour De Ma Chambre, Op.140: Allegretto Quasi Allegro
- Voyage Autour De Ma Chambre, Op.140: Allegro Agitato
- Voyage Autour De Ma Chambre, Op.140: Lento, Con Expressione
- Voyage Autour De Ma Chambre, Op.140: Con Moto
- Var Uber (Warum) Von Schumann Op.142: Thema: Lento, Con Tenerezza/Var1 :Tenermente...
- 7 Lieder, Op.120: Allegretto
- 7 Lieder, Op.120: Allegro Vivo, Tempo Rubata
- 7 Lieder, Op.120: Allegro
- 7 Lieder, Op.120: Andante Tenero
- 7 Lieder, Op.120: Moderato, Con Espressione
- 7 Lieder, Op.120: Antwort. Con Tenerezza
- 7 Lieder, Op.120: Allegro Fuocoso
- Tarantellas, Op.85: No.1: Presto Con Spirito
- Tarantellas, Op.85: No.2: Presto
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ANOTHER RARE WINNER FROM cpo..........2005-11-23
This is a disc of some really nice Romantic piano music: something akin to what Mendelsohn-Bartholdy would have written had he lived longer.
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Alfred Cortot: The Late Recordings, Vol. 1
Manufacturer: Apr UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000065AI6 Release Date: 2002-07-30 |
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Clementi Late Piano Works Richard Burnett
Manufacturer: Amon Ra ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000NBWJ9Q |
Product Description
Label, Amon Ra #CD-SAR-8. Richard Burnett and the Grand Fortepiano by Clementi & Co. London 1822. Tracks 1-4, Sonata in G Minor,Op.50 No.3,Didone abbandonata-Seena tragica. Tracks 5-10, Twelve Monferrinas Op.49.
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Inspired Brahms: The Late Piano Works, Op. 116-119
Manufacturer: Independent ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000A8NQXU |
Product Description
The last 20 short solo piano pieces of Brahms at the height of his powers. This is a glimpse at the profound simplicity of the mature Brahms.
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Franz Liszt: Late Works (Orchestrated and conducted by György Selmeczi)
Manufacturer: Budapest Music Center ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000066SKQ Release Date: 2004-03-22 |
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Chopin: The Late Works
Manufacturer: Skylark ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00003G1OF Release Date: 1999-09-28 |
Tracks:
- Barcarolle, Op.60
- Berceuse, Op.57
- Polonaise-Fantasie, Op.61
- Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op.45
- Sonata in B Minor, Op.58 - Allegro maestoso
- Scherzo: Molto vivace
- Largo
- Finale: Presto non tanto
Album Description
Pianist Jane Coop has thrilled audiences around the world with her remarkable artistry. Her numerous recital and orchestral appearances, impressive recordings and countless national radio broadcasts have brought her international attention from critics and music lovers alike. Well known for her "virtuosic ease" and "pristine musicianship," she has built a reputation as one of Canada's leading pianists.Coop's eight CDs have met with great critical acclaim. Of her previous Chopin disc, CD Review wrote "Jane Coop is an outstanding interpreter of this repertoire. The playing - and the music - is ravishing, powerful and deeply affecting."
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Edgar Stillman Kelley: Complete Works for Piano
Manufacturer: Albany Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000049QH Release Date: 1997-02-18 |
Tracks:
- Polonaise, Op. 35
- Ballet Episode
- Album-Leaf (Happy New Year)
- Lyric Opera Sketch For A Gavotte Movement, Op. 13, No. 1
- Lyric Opera Sketch For A Waltz Chorus, Op. 13 No. 2
- Flower Seekers, Op. 2, No. 1
- Confluentia, Op. 2, No. 2
- Headless Horseman, Op. 2, No. 3
- Alice In Wonderland Suite For Piano, A Series Of Pantomine Pieces: Introduction
- Alice In Wonderland Suite For Piano, A Series Of Pantomine Pieces: The White Rabbit Is Late
- Alice In Wonderland Suite For Piano, A Series Of Pantomine Pieces: The Cheshire Cat
- Alice In Wonderland Suite For Piano, A Series Of Pantomine Pieces: The Caucus Race
- Alice In Wonderland Suite For Piano, A Series Of Pantomine Pieces: The Forest Of Forgetfulness
- Alice In Wonderland Suite For Piano, A Series Of Pantomine Pieces: The Red Queen's Banguet
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Late Piano Works
Manufacturer: Etcetera ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0009W31XM |
Product Description
ALEXANDER SKRYABIN (1872-1915) LATE PIANO WORKS 2 DANSES Op.73 (1914) Index 1 Guirlandes (4:29) Index 2 Fiammes Sombres (2:23) 5 PRELUDES Op.74 (1914) Index 1 Douloureux, dechirant (1:44) Index 2 Tres lent, contemplatif (1:06) Index 3 Allegro, dramroatico (0:36) Index 4 Lent, vague, indecis (2:42) Index 5 Fier, belliqueux (0:47) VERS LA FLAMME Poeme Op.72 (1914) SONATA N.10 Op.70 (1912-13) 2 POEMES Op.7l (1914) Index 1 Fantastique (1:49) Index 2 En revant (2:24) 2 POEMES Op.69 (1912-13) Index 1 Allegretto (2:40) Index 2 Allegretto (1:08) 2 PRELUDES Op. 67 (1912-13) Index 1 Andante (1:36) Index 2 Presto (0:34) 2 POEMES Op. 63 (1911-12) Index 1 Masque (1:07) Index 2 Etrangete (1:46) POEME-NOCTURNE Op,61 (1911-12) SONATA N.6 Op. 62 (1911-12) 3 ETUDES Op. 65 (1911-12) Index 1 Allegro fantastico (2:50) Index 2 Allegretto (2:25) Index 3 Molto vivace (1:47) ROGER WOODWARD, Piano Piano: Steinway Recorded in the Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Ultimo Centre, Sydney on 1st and 2nd August 1991Customer Reviews:
One of the finest Scriabin recordings........2006-12-04
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DONALD ISLER Plays Late BEETHOVEN Piano Works
L.V. Beethoven Manufacturer: Donald Isler ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00005A8XP Release Date: 2001-02-12 |
Album Description
A presentation of Beethoven's last two piano sonatas - opus 110 and 111, along with the last work he wrote for the instrument - the six Bagatelles, op. 126.Track Listings:
- Leos Janácek: Orchestral Works - Danube / Incidental Music to Schluck & Jau / Moravian Dances / Suite, Op. 3
- Love Is Blue: Music for Lonely Lovers
- Luciana Serra - Arie di Rossini · Bellini · Donizetti · Verdi · Thomas · Meyerbeer
- Luigi Boccherini: Six Sonatas For Flute & Harpsichord, Op. 5
- Machaut: Messe Nostre Dame; Perotin, Demantius and LeChancelier: Musique a Notre-Dame de Paris
- Maria Callas Rarities
- Music for a Mexican Wedding
- Music for Solo Violin & For Violin & Piano
- Music for Violin & Guitar
- Music from the Danish Jungle
Track Listings
Roxy London Wc (Jan-Apr 77) [Import]
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Pachelbel: Canon in D