Rontgen - Piano Music Vol.4
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Label: Nimbus - Alliance
Cat No: NI5975
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 1st March 2019
Contents
About
Röntgen’s writing style for the piano shows a gift for creating unique sonorities alongside ingenious harmonic invention. In particular, I am intrigued by his ability to create, on the one hand, exquisite and sublime musical moments – such as those found in the major variations of the Variations and Fugue, op.38 – and, on the other, masses of chordal punctuated with rhapsodic episodes. The Ballade No.3 best represents the latter compositional style with its highly varied textural and emotional contrasts.
When Röntgen died in 1932, Donald Francis Tovey wrote, “He was an inspiration for the future but with a link to the past. His compositions cover the whole range of music in every art form; they all show consummate mastery in every aspect of technique; even in the most facile there is beauty and wit, each series of works culminate in something that has the uniqueness of a living masterpiece.”
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