Romantic Revolution: Piano Works by Dussek & Chopin
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Label: Somm
Cat No: SOMMCD0634
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 21st May 2021
Contents
Works
Ballades (4)Artists
Michael Dussek (piano)Works
Ballades (4)Artists
Michael Dussek (piano)About
This fascinating recital reveals Dussek – a colourful character and favourite of Marie Antoinette whose talents took him throughout Europe and Russia – as “revolutionary in his approach to both composition and pianism” and makes a persuasive argument for Dussek’s influence on Chopin.
In his informative booklet notes, Michael Dussek makes the case for his namesake’s music being the product of a composer “very much ahead of his time in the development of a Romantic piano style” (Grove Music). The disc’s centrepiece is the Op.35 Piano Sonatas (nos.11-13), the B flat major Sonata a crucible of ideas accommodating the rustic lyricism of his native Bohemia, a contrapuntal sophistication that would find full flowering in his later Messe Solennelle, and an anticipation of what would become a Chopin signature.
The G major Sonata boasts melodic expressiveness, virtuoso passagework, a harmonic boldness that Schubert would later more fully exploit and a Rondo finale that out-Haydns Haydn. The Sonata in C minor strikingly blends Beethoven, Chopin and a joyful village dance to conclude a “gloriously innovative triptych”.
Completing the disc are two pinnacles of the piano repertoire: Chopin’s exquisite Nocturne, op.15 no.2, and the lyrical, rapturously intense Ballade no.1 in G minor.
Michael Dussek’s previous SOMM recordings include volumes of chamber music by Frank Bridge (SOMMCD087) and Jacques Ibert (SOMMCD0122) with the Bridge Quartet. MusicWeb International hailed the earlier recording as “vivacious, subtle and faithful to [Bridge’s] mercurial muse”, adding: “Michael Dussek is a doyen among the pianists who have made themselves familiar with this repertoire”. BBC Music Magazine described the Ibert as “suave Gallic chamber music beautifully played”.
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