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Stanley Hoogland (fortepiano) Dutch pianist Stanley Hoogland was a pioneer in the research and performance of the fortepiano in the early 1970’s. Since then he has become a frequent concert performer and currently teaches at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague and Amsterdam. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Mozart - Piano Sonatas
Michel Kiener (Piano Forte) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Mozart: Fantasias & Rondos
Mozart: | Fantasia in D minor, K397 Rondo in D major, K485 Capriccio in C major, KV. 395 Rondo in A minor, K511 March in C Major, K408 Fantasia (Prelude) & Fugue in C major, K394 Fantasia in C minor, K396 Kleiner Trauermarsch in c-moll: 'Marche funebre del Sig.r Maestro Contrapunto', K453a Adagio in B minor, K540 Minuet in D major, K355 Gigue in G Major, K574 Adagio in C major, K356 |
Richard Egarr (pianoforte Zahler, Brünn c.1800) "2006 will surely be full of celebratory concerts and recordings dedicated to a man born 250 years ago…
The recital on this disc includes Mozart's structurally more 'free' music for piano: Rondos, Fantasies, and Preludes. He
inherited these forms from Johann Sebastian Bach and, perhaps more importantly, through his sons Carl Philipp and
Johann Christian.
The brooding opening of the great Fantasie in D minor, K397, gives way to a more light-hearted air. This piece has
acquired a nineteenth-century editorial ending with no Mozartian provenance - the manuscript is incomplete. I offer an
'egarrtorial' option for the close of this little gem. Mozart originally intended the Fantasie in C minor, K396, to include a part
for violin. Too little of this survives to make an adequate reconstruction. However, Abbé Maximilian Stadler (a close friend of
Mozart, and a fine and interesting musician in his own right) made an admirable completion of this work for piano solo.
Although the second part gives way to fantasy of perhaps a more Schubertian nature, it is an extremely fine working of
Mozart's material.
The more structured pieces on the disc - the Rondos, Adagios, Marches, Minuett, and Gigue - demonstrate no less
imagination and depth of character.
I end the programme with the Adagio in C major, K356, originally written for the Glass harmonika. I believe that using a fine
original early piano can help us discover a multitude of colours in his music and bring us into Mozart's sound-world. I am
very thankful he is still in our world at 250. Happy birthday!" Richard Egarr | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Mozart - Piano Encores & Premieres
Mozart: | Fantasia in D minor, K397 Fantasia in C minor, K396 Rondo in D major, K485 Rondo in A minor, K511 6 German Dances, K509 Adagio in B minor, K540 Minuet in D major, K355 Gigue in G Major, K574 Andantino in E flat major, K236 (K588b) Adagio for Glass Harmonica, K617a Zwei Versetten K154a Contredanse in D, K534 'Das Donnerwetter' (both versions) Contredanse, K deest |
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| |  | Mozart - Piano Sonatas & Fantasies
Lars Vogt: “This recording represents my quite personal rediscovery of Mozart’s piano music.” | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Alfred Brendel plays Haydn & Mozart
Alfred Brendel (piano) Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner & Sir Charles Mackerras (Recorded December 1975 - July 2002) | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Gerard Willems - Reflections on Mozart
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| |  | Paderewski - His final RecordingsThe complete HMV Recordings 1937 & 1938
Beethoven: | Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ‘Moonlight' recorded on 30 January 1937 | Chopin: | Nocturne No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 15 No. 2 recorded on 30 January 1937 Nocturne No. 17 in B major, Op. 62 No. 1 recorded on 15 November 1938 Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2 recorded on 15 November 1938 Mazurka No. 38 in F sharp minor, Op. 59 No. 3 recorded on 15 November 1938 Polonaise No. 6 in A flat major, Op. 53 'Héroïque' recorded on 30 January 1937 | Haydn: | Andante & Variations in F minor, Hob.XVII:6 (Sonata - un piccolo divertimento) recorded on 29 January 1937 | Liszt: | Isoldes Liebestod (after Wagner), S. 447 recorded on 15 November 1938 | Mozart: | Rondo in A minor, K511 recorded on 30 January 1937 | Paderewski: | Melody in G Op. 8 No. 3 recorded on 15 November 1938 Minuet in G major, Op. 14 No. 1 recorded on 30 January 1937 | Schubert: | Moments Musicaux, D780: No. 2 in A flat recorded on 15 November 1938 |
Ignacy Jan Paderewski (piano) A year ago we issued, to great critical acclaim. A double album of Paderewski’s first recordings, made in Europe in 1911-12 (APR6006). Between 1914 and 1931 the pianist recorded for Victor in the US but in 1937, after it appeared Paderewski had retired from the studio, he was persuaded to return to the HMV studios in London to make a final series of recordings. At first the plan was to record the repertoire which featured in the film ‘Moonlight Sonata’, a huge blockbuster success at the time which featured Paderewski playing himself, but in addition to this repertoire Paderewski went on to record works by Haydn and Mozart which were new to his discography. It has often been said that in later life Paderewski’s technique was not what it had been, and to an extent the is undoubtedly true, but this is not an issue in the classical works featured here, and the Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven in particular reveal the extreme poetry that had mesmerised audiences for fifty years and had made Paderewski the most famous pianist of his generation. This is the first time all Paderewski’s 1930’s HMV recordings have been assembled together and two unissued tracks from the 1938 sessions are also included. “Paderewski is Paderewski and this disc brings fascinating insights in terms of tempos, sound and imagination. He is technically past it in the Chopin A flat Polonaise, but there's enough magic in the Nocturnes to buy the disc just for those.” BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2009 **** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Artur Schnabel play Mozart
Mozart: | Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K595 Recorded 2nd May, 1934 in EMI Abbey Road Studio No. 1, London London Symphony Orchestra, John Barbirolli Rondo in A minor, K511 Recorded 4th June, 1946 in EMI Abbey Road Studio No. 3, London Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra No. 10 in E flat, K365 Recorded 28th October, 1936 in EMI Abbey Road Studio No. 1, London with Karl Ulrich Schnabel (piano) London Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Boult |
Not long after his February 1934 London Queen’s Hall concert comprising three Mozart concertos, Schnabel made his first recording of a Mozart piano concerto, No. 27 in B flat major, K.595, at the recently opened and well equipped Abbey Road Studios. Completed in one session, this recording is notable not only for the excellence of its sound but for the moulding of the slow movement, taken at a slow tempo, but without any loss of the tension between successive notes or of the coherence of harmonic progressions. Schnabel’s recording of the Concerto for two pianos, with his son Karl Ulrich, is made up entirely of first takes. In the Rondo in A minor, K.511, Schnabel beautifully shapes the phrases and avoids sentimentality or overt intensity of expression. “Often, when he played Mozart or Schubert, Artur Schnabel would be told that he made the music ‘greater than it is’…..That said, it needed someone to lift Mozart on to a pedestal alongside Bach and Beethoven, and, among pianists, Schnabel was as well equipped as anyone to do this” Gramophone Magazine | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Mozart - Works for Pianoforte
Jos van Immerseel (pianoforte) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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