Dussek - Complete Piano Sonatas Vol.7
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95606
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 17th May 2019
Contents
Artists
Zvi Meniker (fortepiano)About
With volume 7 we have reached a pair of opus numbers which offer typical contrasts within Dussek’s idiom. The pair of op.47 sonatas belong to the genre of the ‘Sonate facile’ – easy sonatas, uncomplicated technically and musically, much like Beethoven’s op.49, published three years later. The finale of op.47 no.1 is a ‘Rondo à la Militaire’ which became a famous hit of the period. Indeed, this was a time when Dussek reached the zenith of his fame as performer and composer, with his works and playing conquering the entire continent from England to Russia, and the op.47 sonatas were first published in London, despite the composer having fled the capital in disgrace, leaving behind serious debts and a failing marriage.
The great Sonata op.64, ‘Le Retour à Paris’, is, by contrast, one of Dussek’s most expansive and ambitious works. Composed following his return to the French capital in 1807 after the death of his patron, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, it is not so much a programmatic sonata as an evocation of Dussek’s feelings on his return to the city which he had left just before the French Revolution in 1789. After the bittersweet impressions of the city irrevocably changed by the Revolution and Napoleon’s ascent in the first two movements, a feeling of despair and attempts of reconciliation with fate can be heard in the Scherzo, giving way to the new happy and carefree way of life in the witty final rondo.
Zvi Meniker is a Russian-born Israeli harpsichordist, organist, fortepianist and conductor, now a professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Hannover. He has made a speciality of studying, teaching and performing the piano music of early Romantics such as Mendelssohn, Chopin and indeed Dussek.
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