Schubert - Rarities and Short Piano Works | Naxos 8574135

Schubert - Rarities and Short Piano Works

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8574135

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 13th August 2021

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Among Schubert’s compositions are rare and overlooked works for solo piano that reflect staging posts of his short compositional life. As a boy he had studied with Salieri who almost certainly encouraged him to explore contrapuntal techniques in 1812 – the fugues and fugal expositions he wrote are testament to his secure grounding in the form. Schubert’s admiration for Mozart is clear in the Fantasy in C minor, while the substantial Two Scherzi, D593, show early mastery. Also included is the Allegro in E major, Schubert’s first, unfinished attempt at a piano sonata.

Naxos has a number of discs that can be considered partners to this – see for example 8574145 that covers his Minuets with Trios, 8 Ländler and 5 Ecossaises, which, like this disc, also features short piano works.

Pianist Wojciech Waleczek recorded Liszt’s Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, Vol.53 of the Complete Piano Music series on 8573773. Gramophone wrote: ‘He is sufficiently technically equipped to allow his imagination full flight. He has a strong dramatic instinct and brings a sense of proportion when Liszt grows discursive. Perhaps most importantly, Waleczek conveys an aura of rapture to this music.’

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