Bernstein - Complete Solo Piano Music
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Label: Piano Classics
Cat No: PCL10174
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 15th March 2019
Contents
Works
Anniversaries (4) for piano (1948)Anniversaries (5) for piano (1949-51)
Anniversaries (7) for piano (1943)
Anniversaries (13) for piano (1988)
Music for the Dance no.2
Non troppo presto
Piano Sonata
Sabras (4)
Touches - Chorale, Eight Variations and Coda
Artists
Michele Tozzetti (piano)About
The personal commemorations he created were not portraits so much as selfportrayals, revealing different aspects of his own multi-faceted personality. To play these works well requires an understanding of the various elements that made up the Bernstein persona. The Italian pianist Michele Tozzetti brings out the heartfelt tenderness of most of these tributes, the Jewish elements and the dance rhythms.
In the Anniversary dedicated to Aaron Copland (in Seven Anniversaries, 1943), Tozzetti captures the sound and spirit of the man Bernstein called ‘my first friend in New York, my master, my idol, my sage, my shrink, my guide, my counselor, my elder brother, [and] my beloved friend.’ The pianist reveals a delicate sense of sonority along with fine dynamic control in For Paul Bowles, and brings an idiomatic edginess to For Sergei Koussevitzky. He also injects youthful vigour into Bernstein’s Sonata (1937), a probing work rich in counterpoint, written when the the composer was still a student.
Also on this recording are Non Troppo Presto, a manuscript discovered in the Leonard Bernstein archive at the Library of Congress; and Touches: Chorale, Eight Variations and Coda, commissioned by the Van Cliburn Piano Competition in 1981. Its bluesy chorale is identical to Virgo Blues, written for his daughter, Jamie on her twenty-sixth birthday in 1978. Bernstein dedicated this work ‘to my first love, the keyboard’. In Michele Tozzetti’s hands, that love is beautifully realized.
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