Melvyn Tan: Master & Pupil

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The main interest of this disc lies in the Czerny pieces. Very few of his thousand plus piano works are played today, and the Rode variations do indeed reflect a felicitous talent, with their... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 23rd Sep 2016
Catalogue No: ONYX4156
Label: Onyx
Length: 79 minutes

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Excerpt, Beethoven: Bagatelles (6), Op. 126

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I. Andante con moto, cantabile e compiacevole

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Excerpt, Beethoven: Bagatelles (6), Op. 126

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Bagatelles, Op. 126: II. Allegro

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Excerpt, Beethoven: Bagatelles (6), Op. 126

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III. Andante, cantabile e grazioso

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IV. Presto

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V. Quasi allegretto

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VI. Presto - Andante amabile e con moto - Tempo I

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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109

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I. Vivace, ma non troppo - Adagio espressivo

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II. Scherzo prestissimo

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III. Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo

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Czerny: Variations on a Theme by Rode, Op. 33

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Czerny: Marcia funebre sulla morte di Luigi van Beethoven, Op. 146

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Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor, S178

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I. Lento assai - Allegro energico - Grandioso

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II. Allegro energico - Andante sostenuto

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3 Allegro energico - Lento sostenuto - Lento assai

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Melvyn Tan has a strong association with the music of Beethoven having made pioneering recordings for EMI of the 5 Piano Concertos and the Choral Fantasia with Sir Roger Norrington and the London Classical Players. He also made several discs of the sonatas, and one very special recording on the then newly restored Broadwood piano that was Beethoven’s own instrument. On this disc Melvyn plays on a modern Steinway. The theme of the CD is Master & Pupil.

Focusing on three of the great pianist composers of the 19th century who represent the beginning of a long line of masters and pupils that can be traced to the present day via Martin Krauss and Edwin Fischer to Alfred Brendel and Paul Lewis.

The young Carl Czerny (along with Ferdinand Reis) became a long term pupil and friend of Beethoven at the early age of 10, performing some of the concertos, and working with Beethoven on preparing works for their premiers – not an easy task. A brilliant virtuoso and a highly skilled (if over productive) composer, his legacy lives on to this day in his studies – every pianist will have come across these. His reputation was held in high regard by Liszt, Brahms and Debussy, and it was the young Liszt that Czerny took under his wing in 1819. Liszt later dedicated his 'Transcendental Studies' to Czerny. In 1823 Beethoven saw the 12 year-old Liszt perform and after kissed the child on the forehead. Liszt’s monumental B minor Sonata is the true heir to Beethoven’s visionary late sonatas.

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November 2016

The main interest of this disc lies in the Czerny pieces. Very few of his thousand plus piano works are played today, and the Rode variations do indeed reflect a felicitous talent, with their increasingly virtuoso embroidery on the theme … [Tan] plays the Bagatelles with the right sort of empathy, honouring both their folk song sweetness and their anarchic playfulness

October 2016

played to gourmet standards, with generous lashings of cream.

May 2017

[The Rode Variations] finds Tan in his finest form, with fabulous filigree

30th October 2016

The progression, for me, is from marvellousness to absolute delectation: Tan’s Liszt. His playing is always exquisite, but much more than that.

His performance of Liszt’s Sonata in B minor may not be as grandly impassioned or mercurial of mood as some, but Tan’s performance, full of long, graded crescendos and with a convincing large-scale shape, is finely judged and ultimately very persuasive.

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