Schoenberg / Brahms - Piano Works
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Label: Onyx
Cat No: ONYX4055
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 31st August 2010
Contents
Works
Fantasias (7), op.116Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel, op.24
Kleine Klavierstucke (6), op.19
Suite for piano, op.25
Artists
Shai Wosner (piano)Works
Fantasias (7), op.116Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel, op.24
Kleine Klavierstucke (6), op.19
Suite for piano, op.25
Artists
Shai Wosner (piano)About
With imaginative programming that communicates his intellectual curiosity, Wosner performs a wide-ranging repertoire from Mozart and Beethoven to Ligeti and composers of his own generation. Wosner’s virtuosity and perceptiveness have increasingly made him a favourite among audiences and critics alike.
In 2005, Wosner won an Avery Fisher Career Grant. In the same year, he received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. He also continues his extensive performing and recording activity as a BBC New Generation Artist, which he was named in September 2007. He is in demand with orchestras and conductors worldwide.
Both Brahms and Schoenberg were indebted to the musical styles of earlier generations – and not just the mighty shadow of Beethoven. The baroque period intrigued both composers, and it is interesting to note that two of their most important works for solo piano – works in which they expressed their mature style and authority – are inspired by the baroque.
Shai Wosner calls the Suite by Schoenberg and the Handel Variations by Brahms ‘declarations of independence’. The Schoenberg was his first purely 12-tone work, and the Brahms was his first wholly successful solo piano work after the three early sonatas, yet both take their inspiration from the baroque period.
Brahms the revolutionary is highlighted by Wosner on this CD by interweaving the late Op.116 Fantasies with Schoenberg’s early Op.19 Piano Pieces – only 12 years separate the two, the surprises are many.
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