FX Dussek - Complete Music for Fortepiano
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95863
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 5
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 19th February 2021
Contents
Works
Divertimento for keyboard 4 hands in G majorKeyboard Sonata in C major
Keyboard Sonata in D major
Keyboard Sonata no.1 in B flat major
Keyboard Sonata no.2 in G major
Keyboard Sonata no.3 in B flat major
Keyboard Sonata no.4 in A major
Keyboard Sonata no.5 in G major
Keyboard Sonata no.6 in D major
Keyboard Sonata no.7 in C major
Keyboard Sonata no.8 in F major
Keyboard Sonata no.9 in D major
Keyboard Sonata no.10 in B flat major
Keyboard Sonata no.11 in G major
Keyboard Sonata no.12 in G major
Keyboard Sonata no.13 in B flat major
Keyboard Sonata no.14 in F major
Keyboard Sonata no.15 in C major
Keyboard Sonata no.16 in A major
Keyboard Sonata no.17 in G major
Keyboard Sonata no.18 in F major
Keyboard Sonata no.19 in G major
Keyboard Sonata no.20 in D major
Keyboard Sonata no.21 in E flat major
Keyboard Sonata no.22 in F major
Keyboard Sonata no.23 in C minor
Keyboard Sonata no.24 in D major
Keyboard Sonatinas (6)
Menuetto in C major
Sonata for keyboard 4 hands in C major
Sonata for keyboard 4 hands in G major
Sonata no.1 for keyboard 4 hands in C major
Sonata no.2 for keyboard 4 hands in E flat major
Artists
Marius Bartoccini (fortepiano)Ilario Gregoletto (fortepiano)
Works
Divertimento for keyboard 4 hands in G majorKeyboard Sonata in C major
Keyboard Sonata in D major
Keyboard Sonata no.1 in B flat major
Keyboard Sonata no.2 in G major
Keyboard Sonata no.3 in B flat major
Keyboard Sonata no.4 in A major
Keyboard Sonata no.5 in G major
Keyboard Sonata no.6 in D major
Keyboard Sonata no.7 in C major
Keyboard Sonata no.8 in F major
Keyboard Sonata no.9 in D major
Keyboard Sonata no.10 in B flat major
Keyboard Sonata no.11 in G major
Keyboard Sonata no.12 in G major
Keyboard Sonata no.13 in B flat major
Keyboard Sonata no.14 in F major
Keyboard Sonata no.15 in C major
Keyboard Sonata no.16 in A major
Keyboard Sonata no.17 in G major
Keyboard Sonata no.18 in F major
Keyboard Sonata no.19 in G major
Keyboard Sonata no.20 in D major
Keyboard Sonata no.21 in E flat major
Keyboard Sonata no.22 in F major
Keyboard Sonata no.23 in C minor
Keyboard Sonata no.24 in D major
Keyboard Sonatinas (6)
Menuetto in C major
Sonata for keyboard 4 hands in C major
Sonata for keyboard 4 hands in G major
Sonata no.1 for keyboard 4 hands in C major
Sonata no.2 for keyboard 4 hands in E flat major
Artists
Marius Bartoccini (fortepiano)Ilario Gregoletto (fortepiano)
About
Born in 1731 and of humble origins, Dušek studied in Prague and Vienna, then himself became teacher to many composers including Leopold Koželuch and one of Mozart’s sons, Carl Thomas. Mozart himself stayed at his villa in 1787 and wrote portions of Don Giovanni. Dušek died in 1799 at the age of 67, having outlived many of the Classical era’s most renowned composers, with the notable exception of Haydn. Thus his own output traverses the era, beginning with the Baroque conventions and youthful high spirits of his early sonatas (including the C major Sonata for four hands).
The second phase of Dušek’s output displays stylistic traits of the Empfindsamkeit movement headed by C.P.E. Bach, though only one of the 24 sonatas is cast in the kind of turbulent minor key characteristic of the movement. In the third phase, Dušek’s individual voice is most impressively developed, reaching a peak with the Sonata No.10 (the sonatas are not numbered chronologically). The magisterial elegance of the sonata’s first movement, allied to a sensitive handling of melody and harmony, makes it one of the most precious examples of Bohemian musical art in the second half of the 18th century. There is even a premonition of Schubertian lyricism in the late Sonata in C for four hands.
Any keen student of Classical-era keyboard literature will find this album a treasure-trove and an essential acquisition. The booklet contains an introduction to Dušek’s life and work by Marius Bartoccini, who is a specialist in this area of the repertoire, having studied with Costantino Mastroprimiano and Leo Van Doeselaar, among others. On this recording he plays three instruments of the era, two original and one a modern copy, joined in the four-hands music by Ilario Gregoletto.
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