Ries - Piano Sonatas & Sonatinas Vol.3 | Naxos 8572204

Ries - Piano Sonatas & Sonatinas Vol.3

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8572204

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 28th June 2010

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About

A virtuoso pianist, Ferdinand Ries began composing piano sonatas at a time when the genre was undergoing significant changes, from the models of Haydn and Mozart to new developments by Clementi, Beethoven and Hummel.

Ries also pre-figures Schubert’s poignant harmonic language, Mendelssohn’s expressive sweetness and Chopin’s brilliant figurations, notably in The Dream.

Opening with a stately polonaise in rondo form, Ries’s C major Sonata concludes with a thrilling perpetuum mobile finale. In his only named sonata, The Unfortunate, the influence of Beethoven’s Pathétique is apparent.

Kagan and Naxos are both to be commended for undertaking this project, and it is to be hoped that they will be repaid by a renewed interest in a composer whose music deserves to be heard.” - Fanfare on 8570796

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