Bortkiewicz - Complete Piano Music
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Label: Piano Classics
Cat No: PCL10163
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 6
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 7th December 2018
Contents
Works
Ballade, op.42Ein Roman, op.35
Elegie, op.46
Etudes (10) pour piano, op.15
From my Childhood, op.14
Im 3/4 Takt, op.48
Impressions, op.4
Kindheit (nach dem Roman von Leo Tolstoi), op.39
Lamentations et Consolations, op.17
Lyrica nova, op.59
Marionettes, op.54
Minuit: Deux Morceaux, op.5
Morceaux (3), op.6
Morceaux (3), op.24
Morceaux (3) pour piano, op.12
Morceaux (4), op.3
Pensees lyriques (6), op.11
Piano Pieces (4), op.65
Piano Sonata no.1, op.9
Piano Sonata no.2, op.60
Pieces (4) for piano, op.10
Preludes (6), op.13
Preludes (6), op.66
Preludes (7) for piano, op.40
Preludes (10), op.33
Valses (3), op.27
Artists
Klaas Trapman (piano)Works
Ballade, op.42Ein Roman, op.35
Elegie, op.46
Etudes (10) pour piano, op.15
From my Childhood, op.14
Im 3/4 Takt, op.48
Impressions, op.4
Kindheit (nach dem Roman von Leo Tolstoi), op.39
Lamentations et Consolations, op.17
Lyrica nova, op.59
Marionettes, op.54
Minuit: Deux Morceaux, op.5
Morceaux (3), op.6
Morceaux (3), op.24
Morceaux (3) pour piano, op.12
Morceaux (4), op.3
Pensees lyriques (6), op.11
Piano Pieces (4), op.65
Piano Sonata no.1, op.9
Piano Sonata no.2, op.60
Pieces (4) for piano, op.10
Preludes (6), op.13
Preludes (6), op.66
Preludes (7) for piano, op.40
Preludes (10), op.33
Valses (3), op.27
Artists
Klaas Trapman (piano)About
A composer-pianist after his time, Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877-1952) continued to write music in the post-Romantic Russian tradition well into the 20th century: based on Liszt and Chopin, influenced by Tchaikovsky and Russian folklore, and insulated from Modernism. His craftsmanship was meticulous, his imagination colourful and sensitive, his piano writing as idiomatic as one would expect from a performer coached in the grand manner of 19th-century virtuosity. His voice is strongly established in even his early works: preludes, studies and ballades followed, as well as two grandiloquent sonatas.
Many of Bortkiewicz’s manuscripts ended up in the possession of his good friend, the Dutch pianist Hugo van Dalen. In time the Dutch Musical Institute acquired them and engaged Klaas Trapman to make these Bortkiewicz recordings between 2002 and 2006. Reissued here complete, they are complemented by new and detailed booklet notes from the Bortkiewicz scholar Wouter Kalkman. For Trapman himself, this project was a labour of love: ‘Bortkiewicz has his own personal voice,’ he remarked in an interview. ‘It is the atmosphere of deep nostalgia, the longing for past joys. This emotional side, blended with his strong melodic gifts, makes his music attractive and appealing to many listeners.’
‘Trapman approaches the music of Bortkiewicz in the manner of the best interpreters of Rachmaninoff, avoiding over dramatization and sentimentality... under Trapman's hands, [the music] always sounds elegant and well made.’ - Fanfare (Sept/Oct 2005)
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