Rochberg: Piano Music, Vol. 3

Featuring

Sally Pinkas
George Rochberg

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Compositional Technique

Rochberg's Partita-Variations uses a 'baker's dozen' principle, with its central 'Tema: Ballade' surrounded by twelve other movements that appropriate a full range of musical styles.

Performer Biography

Sally Pinkas, the pianist on this recording, is an Israeli-born musician who has performed widely as a soloist and as part of the Hirsch-Pinkas Piano Duo.

Compositional Technique

Nach Bach, a fantasy for harpsichord or piano, is an atonal and non-metric commentary-improvisation on Bach's Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830.

Composer's Artistic Vision

George Rochberg's relationship with the past, as evidenced in his piano music, is characterized by an intimate, living familiarity rather than mere nostalgia.

Compositional Technique

The Sonata-Fantasia, a dark and anguished work, is written in the twelve-tone language, which the composer believed was capable of expressing extreme emotions.

Composer Biography

George Rochberg, the composer, was a skilled pianist himself and gave the premiere of his own Sonata-Fantasia.

Recording & Production

This recording was made possible with support from the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, the Hopkins Center, the Dean of Faculty Office at Dartmouth College, and an anonymous donor.