Copland: Piano Variations, Piano Sonata & Piano Fantasy

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Refusing to bang, [Robert Weirich] patiently illuminates details of texture and architecture, reveling in Copland's haunting spareness — American Record Guide More…

Release Date: 1st Jan 2008
Catalogue No: TROY989
Label: Albany
Length: 72 minutes

Copland: Piano Variations

Work length12:57

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Robert Weirich

Copland: Piano Sonata (1939-41)

Work length26:48

$4.50

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Robert Weirich

Molto moderato

Track length9:55

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Vivace

Track length5:51

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Andante sostenuto

Track length11:02

$2.00

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Copland: Piano Fantasy

Work length32:24

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Robert Weirich

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Robert Weirich leads an extremely active career as a pianist, teacher, author and composer, with many awards and articles to his credit, and with more than 30 concerto performances with such conductors as David Zinman and Jose Serebrier. Of Copland’s piano music, he writes, “Aaron Copland had a life-long love affair with the piano…he entrusted the piano with three of his most important, iconically personal works. These compositions hold their own with those of any composer from any period – a pianist can program them alongside Bach, Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms, without fear that the American work suffers in comparison. For sheer originality, compositional craft and profundity of utterance, here is music with a complete mastery of voice – no one but Copland could have written these pieces.”

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Refusing to bang, [Robert Weirich] patiently illuminates details of texture and architecture, reveling in Copland's haunting spareness

the music is tautly organized, unfailingly concentrated, and highly dramatic. Ultimately, the cumulative effect of the music leaves the listener with a renewed respect for the superb grasp of beauty and emotion that is often taken for granted with this American master

Copland: Piano Variations, Piano Sonata & Piano Fantasy

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