Dussek - Complete Piano Sonatas Vol.6
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95598
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 15th March 2019
Contents
Works
Piano Sonata in B flat major, op.9 no.1Piano Sonata in C major, op.9 no.2
Piano Sonata in D major, op.9 no.3
Piano Sonata in E flat major, op.75 'Grande Sonata'
Artists
Viviana Sofronitsky (fortepiano)Works
Piano Sonata in B flat major, op.9 no.1Piano Sonata in C major, op.9 no.2
Piano Sonata in D major, op.9 no.3
Piano Sonata in E flat major, op.75 'Grande Sonata'
Artists
Viviana Sofronitsky (fortepiano)About
Viviana Sofronitsky, daughter of the great Russian pianist Vladimir Sofronitsky, followed in her father’s footsteps by becoming a ‘formidable pianist’ (Fanfare). Early years in Russia were followed by a move to the United States to study early music at Oberlin Conservatory and further studies in fortepiano and harpsichord at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. An active performing career across Europe – from Leipzig and Utrecht to Oslo and London – included competition prizes at the Bach Tage Berlin and the Musica Antiqua competition in Bruges.
Her discography includes solo music by Schubert and the complete piano concertos of Mozart, which drew praise for her ‘superb articulation’ in Fanfare. As on those earlier albums she plays a modern fortepiano by Paul McNulty, based on a Viennese model by Anton Walter, for these new recordings of sonatas by the Czech-born contemporary of Beethoven, Johann Ladislaus Dussek.
The three sonatas gathered under Opus 9 are arrangements of works originally conceived for piano and violin: most of the violin’s melody line was originally doubled by the right-hand part of the piano, making the transformation from chamber to solo work seamless and straightforward, and the character of these late-18th-century works corresponds to similarly conceived violin sonatas by Mozart and Beethoven, where the spotlight falls on the keyboard.
So it does in a quite different fashion in the penultimate piano sonata by Dussek, Op.75, which is cast in an early-Romantic vein. An expansive first movement is led by a gentle, exploratory opening melody which fractures and multiplies into passionate figuration across the entire range of the keyboard, and back again: the journey from Beethoven to Schubert in a nutshell. This is followed by a stately, minuet-like Andante moderato and a gracefully turned Rondo finale, both again bearing apparently Schubertian characteristics though written at a time (1811) when the master of song was but a teenager.
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