Anton Batagov: Schubert
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Label: Melodiya
Cat No: MELCD1002658
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 15th October 2021
Contents
Works
Du bist die Ruh', D776, op.59 no.3Impromptus (4), op.90 D899
Moments musicaux (6), op.94 D780
Artists
Anton Batagov (piano)Works
Du bist die Ruh', D776, op.59 no.3Impromptus (4), op.90 D899
Moments musicaux (6), op.94 D780
Artists
Anton Batagov (piano)About
“I played the compositions from the album in different programmes, in different combinations – and Schubert always coexisted with some other music, written either before or after him. And then I wanted to record an album with only Schubert. The album turned out to be long – 2 hours and 20 minutes: the Sonata in B flat major, written two months before his death, when Schubert already knew that he had very little time, and some other pieces that I placed between the movements of the Sonata. This form is most similar to a novel: we go through a segment of the path with our hero, then we are transported to a place where something else, no less important, happens, and then we return and continue from the point where we left the hero at the end of the previous chapter.” – Anton Batagov
The album Schubert is Batagov’s sixth ‘classical’ programme in the Melodiya collection recorded by him in the 21st century. The attitude to the music of the past and to the music of the present alike, which is characteristic of all Batagov’s works as a pianist, is preserved here as well: “All the notes written by the composer, of course, remain in their places. Anyhow, we bring a modern worldview and modern experience to the performance of classical works. We do it even when we pretend to be ‘period musicians’ playing the instruments of those times in wigs. This album is an attempt to hear Schubert from our frantic 21st century undertaken by a minimalist composer”.
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