Rarities of Piano Music 1992: Live Recordings from the Husum Festival

Featuring

Bernard Ringeissen
Daniel Berman
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Franz Liszt
Ferruccio Busoni
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Alexander Scriabin
Manfred Kelkel
Francis Poulenc
Claude Debussy
Arthur Lourié
Enrique Granados
Percy Grainger
Marc-André Hamelin
Vladimir Deshevov
Felix Petyrek
Berthold Goldschmidt
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ludomir Różycki

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Recording & Production

The selection of pieces for this album, approved by the participating pianists, forms a kaleidoscopic sequence of mostly isolated piano compositions, many of which are encores.

Historical Context

The 1920s Russian avant-garde composers, including Vladimir Deshevov, sought to translate themes of machines and modern life's rhythms into music, influenced by works like Honegger's "Pacific 231."

Composer's Artistic Vision

The festival aims to rediscover and bring to light hidden or rarely played piano compositions, including pieces often overlooked within well-known piano cycles.

Album & Artwork

This album, "Rarities of Piano Music," is a live recording from the 6th annual piano festival held at "Schloss vor Husum" in August 1992.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Percy Grainger, whose nonconformist views were considered odd by some contemporaries, disliked the German-Austrian music tradition and refused to compose in traditional sonata form.

Composer Biography

Arthur Lourié, a Russian avant-gardist born in St. Petersburg, was appointed "people's commissar for music" in revolutionary Russia before moving to Berlin and then Paris.