Moscheles - 24 Etudes, op.70
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Label: Piano Classics
Cat No: PCL10231
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 18th November 2022
Contents
Artists
Michele Bolla (fortepiano)About
The Op.70 Etudes have attracted previous recordings, complete and in part, but they are presented here for the first time on instruments of the composer’s time – an 1844 Erard and a modern copy of an 1819 Graf model – thus releasing and intensifying the colour and playfulness of works which transcend their didactic origins.
Some of the technical and tonal innovations in these studies represented a creative stimulus for composers including Schumann, Liszt and Chopin. Schumann dedicated his ambitious Sonata, op.14, to Moscheles, and believed that the Op.70 Etudes made his friend one of the greatest composers of piano music of the age. Surely the greatest piano teacher of his age – perhaps the greatest ever – Chopin religiously used the Op.70 Etudes for instruction as a kind of New Testament to set alongside Bach and Beethoven. Moreover, they clearly made a considerable impact on his own Etudes, op.10 and op.25. No.23 of Moscheles’s set is the only explicitly programmatic one, cast as ‘a battle among demons’, but there is no shortage of immediate drama and theatre throughout the set, especially in the hands of Michele Bolla.
‘Fine performances, and well recorded,’ was the verdict of Gramophone on Michele Bolla’s Piano Classics album of the Piano Sonatas by Moscheles (PCL10188). This new recording of the Etudes is sure to win equally warm praise and a new audience for its composer.
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