JM Kraus - Complete Piano Music
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95976
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 25th June 2021
Contents
Works
Keyboard Sonata in E flat major, VB195Keyboard Sonata in E major, VB196
Larghetto in G major, VB194
Neue kuriose Menuetten (2), VB190
Rondo in F major, VB191
Scherzo con variazioni, VB193
Swedish Dance, VB192
Artists
Costantino Mastroprimiano (fortepiano)Works
Keyboard Sonata in E flat major, VB195Keyboard Sonata in E major, VB196
Larghetto in G major, VB194
Neue kuriose Menuetten (2), VB190
Rondo in F major, VB191
Scherzo con variazioni, VB193
Swedish Dance, VB192
Artists
Costantino Mastroprimiano (fortepiano)About
Trained as a violinist (who, like Mozart, preferred the viola), he nonetheless was a talented pianist. Francisco de Miranda, a nobleman on a grand tour in 1787, described Kraus playing the fortepiano ‘like an angel’. Sadly, the composer left relatively few works for the keyboard. This disc provides a thorough exploration of these works, from the satirical to the sublime, the expansive to the perfunctory, with the real tours de force being the two fortepiano sonatas, both issued in 1788 by Swedish publisher Olof Ålström.
Though limited in number, these works for solo keyboard (almost certainly composed for the fortepiano) represent the variety and originality that are among Kraus’s musical trademarks. The two sonatas in particular challenge the technical limits of the instrument, requiring both dexterity and interpretive ability and often foreshadowing the piano music of thirty years hence in content and scope.
Costantino Mastroprimiano studied piano and chamber music with Michele Marvulli, Guido Agosti and Riccardo Brengola, and then moved his focus to the study of the fortepiano.
He recorded extensively for Brilliant Classics: the complete sonatas of Muzio Clementi (18 CDs) complete piano sonatas by Hummel (3 CDs) and a CD with piano music by Alkan, all of which received enthusiastic acclaim in the international press. On this recording he plays a fortepiano by Monika May (after Johann Andreas Stein, 1781).
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