Franz Schmidt: The Piano Album

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Release Date: 2nd Feb 2024
Catalogue No: C5526
Label: Capriccio
Length: 57 minutes

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Schmidt, F: Chaconne

Work length23:07

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Karl-Andreas Kolly (piano)

Schmidt, F: Romance

Work length3:56

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Karl-Andreas Kolly (piano)

Schmidt, F: Toccata

Work length6:54

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Original version for piano left hand
Karl-Andreas Kolly (piano)

Schmidt, F: Little Choral Preludes (4)

Work length3:58

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Karl-Andreas Kolly (piano)

III. O, wie selig seid ihr doch, ihr Frommen

Track length3:58

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Schmidt, F: Variationen und Fuge über ein eigenes Thema

Work length19:27

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Karl-Andreas Kolly (piano)

I. Variations

Track length13:56

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II. Fugue

Track length5:31

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Franz Schmidt was not only a brilliant cellist, but also a gifted pianist who mastered almost the entire piano repertoire with ease. Nevertheless, he had a kind of love-hate relationship with the piano, since his great passion was for the organ. This did not prevent him, however, from writing numerous works for the left hand alone, all of them commissioned by the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein and including the Beethoven Variations, Piano Concerto in E-flat major and Quintets. Schmidt's output for piano two-hands, however, comprised only one work – the melancholic Romance, which he dedicated to his English teacher Geoffrey Sephton in 1922. Karl-Andreas Kolly remarks: “The fact that I have decided to arrange three of Franz Schmidt’s organ works for piano has primarily to do with my great passion for his music. And also a little with my hope that in a piano version, his organ works might possibly reach a wider audience”.

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