Ries - Piano Sonatas & Sonatinas Vol.2 | Naxos 8570743

Ries - Piano Sonatas & Sonatinas Vol.2

£12.30

Usually available for despatch within 2-3 working days

Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8570743

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 5th January 2009

Contents

About

Ferdinand Ries, Beethoven’s friend and pupil, was an exceptionally gifted composer whose prophetic piano sonatas foreshadow Schubert’s poignant harmonic language, Mendelssohn’s expressively sweet melodies and Chopin’s brilliant figuration.

While the sonatas and sonatinas on this disc inevitably show the influence of his teacher, Ries also explored the piano’s sonorities and expressive capacities in a uniquely personal fashion, plumbing novel depths of Romanticism in ways that suggested to his contemporaries an ‘Aeolian harp’.

Error on this page? Let us know here

Need more information on this product? Click here