Schubert: Piano Music
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Piano Music
Alberto Miodini (piano)
[ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Monday 10 March 2014
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This set could be rightly called "The unknown Schubert" as it contains a wealth of shorter, and sometimes unfinished piano pieces by the Viennese master.
When we look past the extended meditations of the sonatas into the rest of Schubert's piano music, we tend hardly to see beyond the Wanderer Fantasy and the Impromptus. This undervalues the composer's contribution to the work for his instrument, as the Italian pianist Alberto Miodini reveals on an extensive exploration of the sometimes slighter and lighter but often just shorter works he composed through his all‐too‐short career. Perhaps the late Klavierstücke D946 are best known, and justly so, for their profound and ruminative contemplation, and Miodini's fellow countryman Paolo Bordoni did sterling work for the Waltzes in 1970s recordings that stand the test of time, but there are still tantalising fragments that are no less worth hearing for their frustratingly unfinished status - the "Unfinished" Symphony was by no means the only musical project that Schubert filed in his creative bottom drawer, so fecund was his compositional imagination that he could hardly get the ideas out fast enough. As noted by Alfred Brendel, Schubert chose to interrupt a composition "when it was unsatisfying or no longer interesting" - evidence of the composer's vigorous pursuit of his own individual Sonata style. Among the complete works here are equally little‐known variation sets on
melodies by Hüttenbrenner and Diabelli - works full of characteristically Schubertian energy and motive power.
Tracks:
CD1
Klavierstücke
Drei Klavierstücke D946
1 No.1 in E flat minor: Allegro assai -- Andante -- Tempo I
2 No.2 in E flat: Allegretto
3 No.3 in C: Allegro
4 Klavierstück in C D916b: Allegro (fragment)
5 Klavierstück in C minor D916c (fragment)
Drei Klavierstücke D459
6 No.1 in C: Adagio
7 No.2 in A: Scherzo (Allegro)
8 No.3 in E: Allegro patetico
9 Klavierstück in A D604: Andante
CD2
Variations and Fantasies
1 10 Variations D156
2 13 Variations on a theme by Anselm Hüttenbrenner D576
3 Variation on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli D718
4 Fantasy in C D605a 'Grazer Fantasie'
5 Fantasia in C D605 (fragment)
6 Fantasie in C minor D2e
CD3
Miniatures
1 Hungarian melody in B minor D817
2 Allegretto in C minor D915
3 Allegretto in C D346 (fragment)
4 Allegro moderato in C D347 (fragment)
5 Andantino in C D348 (fragment)
6 Adagio in C D349 (fragment)
7 Allegretto in C minor D900 (fragment)
8 Rondo in E D506: Allegretto
9 Adagio in E D612
Allegro and Scherzo D570
10 Allegro (fragment)
11 Scherzo: Allegro vivace -- Trio
12 Adagio in G D178 (first version)
13 Adagio in G D178 (second version, fragment)
14 Andante in C D29
CD4
Dances, Scherzos, Overtures and Fugues
1 12 Waltzes D145
2 Grazer Galopp in C D925
3 Minuet in C sharp minor D600
4 Minuet in A D334: Allegretto -- Trio
5 Minuet in A minor D277: Allegro -- Trio
Two Scherzos D593
6 Scherzo in B flat: Allegretto -- Trio
7 Scherzo in D flat: Allegro moderato -- Trio
8 March in B minor Ddeest: Allegro assai -- Trio
9 March in E D606: Allegro con brio -- Trio
10 Fugue in D minor D13
11 Fugue in C D24a
12 Fugue in G D24b
13 Fugue in D minor D24c
14 Overture to Alfonso und Estrella D759a (transcr. Schubert)
15 Waltz in G D844 'Albumblatt'
