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Rarities of Piano Music 1995 - Live Recordings from the Husum Festival

4/10/2007, 12 Tracks, 1:13:59

Featuring

  • Anton Kuerti
  • Ronald Smith
  • Daniel Berman
  • Roberto Cappello
  • Philip Fowke
  • Marie-Catherine Girod
  • Carl Czerny
  • Frédéric Chopin
  • Charles Valentin Alkan
  • Franz Liszt
  • Carl Tausig
  • Ernö Dohnányi
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Vincent d'Indy

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Historical Context

The Husum "Rarities Week" festival, founded in 1987 by pianist and teacher Peter Froundjian, focuses on piano music rarely heard elsewhere.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Franz Liszt's Canzone Napolitana (Notturno) incorporates national folk music styles, featuring Italianate doublings in thirds for the principal melody.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Charles Valentin Alkan, a neighbor of Chopin in Paris, became a recluse who rarely performed in public, despite expectations for a spectacular career as a concert pianist.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This album is a live recording from the Husum "Rarities Week" festival, featuring performances exactly as they were given, without post-concert editing or corrections.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Ernő Dohnányi, a significant Hungarian musician after Liszt, was a pianist, composer, and teacher whose pupils included Annie Fischer, Georg Solti, and Géza Anda.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Carl Czerny, a pupil of Beethoven and teacher of Liszt, composed nearly nine hundred numbered works, including choral, symphonic, chamber, and piano music, as well as his famous exercise books.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Carl Czerny's early Sonata No. 1 in A flat, written in 1810, was innovative for its five movements, mostly quiet endings, and the use of a fugue in the finale.

Source: Booklet

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