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Release Date: Friday 9 July 2021
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After his acclaimed Mendelssohn album with cellist Johannes Moser, Alasdair Beatson presents his first PENTATONE solo album Aus Wien, on which he brings together piano music from Schubert, Schumann, Schoenberg, Korngold and Ravel. Ranging from treasures of late-Romantic and early atonal music to carnivalesque, grandiose dance pieces, the works on Aus Wien constitute a picture of the vibrant city of Vienna, a hub of musical creativity without parallel, and the capital of the waltz.
Alasdair Beatson works prolifically as a soloist and chamber musician, and is renowned as a sincere musician and intrepid programmer. Aus Wien is his second PENTATONE release.
Robert Schumann (1810 -1856): Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26
1) I. Allegro
2) II. Romanze
3) III. Scherzino
4) IV. Intermezzo
5) V. Finale
Arnold Schönberg (1874 - 1951): 6 Kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19
6) I. Leicht, zart
7) II. Langsam
8) III. Sehr langsame
9) IV. Rasch, aber leicht
10) V. Etwas rasch
11) VI. Sehr langsam
Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937): Valses nobles et sentimentales
12) I. Modéré - très franc
13) II. Assez lent - avec une expression intense
14) III. Modéré
15) IV. Assez animé
16) V. Presque lent - dans un sentiment intime
17) VI. Vif
18) VII. Moins vif
19) VIII. Épilogue: Lent
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 - 1957): Piano Sonata No. 3 in C Major, Op. 25
20) I. Allegro molto e deciso
21) II. Andante religioso
22) III. Tempo di Menuetto molto comodo
23) IV. Rondo. Allegro giocoso
Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
24) Waltz in G-flat Major, D.Anh.I/14 "Kupelwieser-Walzer" (transcr. by Richard Strauss)