Kletzki - Piano Works | Naxos 8572190

Kletzki - Piano Works

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8572190

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 1st March 2010

Contents

Artists

Joseph Banowetz (piano)
Russian Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Thomas Sanderling

Works

Kletzki, Paul

Fantasie in C minor, op.9
Piano Concerto in D minor, op.22
Preludes (3), op.4
Unpublished Piano Pieces (3)

Artists

Joseph Banowetz (piano)
Russian Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Thomas Sanderling

About

Treated ‘like a son’ by Wilhelm Furtwängler and admired by Toscanini as both composer and conductor, Paul Kletzki was active as a composer between 1921 and 1942, relinquishing this creative outlet to become famous solely as a conductor.

All the works on this disc are adventurous, sometimes improvisatory, tonal pieces which push the pianist’s technique and musicianship to the limit.

The Fantasie is a colossal work of highly contrapuntal music, a sonata comprising four movements joined together within a single continuous movement, while the Piano Concerto may be counted among the most significant twentieth-century contributions to the genre.

Joseph Banowetz has been described by Fanfare as “a giant among keyboard artists of our time.”

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