Fantasie: Seven Composers, Seven Keyboards
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Fantasie: Seven Composers, Seven Keyboards
Alexander Melnikov
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 16 June 2023
A lover of historical keyboard instruments, Alexander Melnikov has already successfully met the challenge of exploring 'Four Pieces, Four Pianos' on disc and in concert back in 2018. Today, he has chosen to perform seven emblematic works of the fantasia genre on harpsichord, fortepiano, tangent piano, early grands, and so on. In this journey through the keyboards of time, we can discover thse pieces as they sounded at the time of their creation, but also grasp the invisible thread that links them to each other.
BBC Music Magazine July 2023 - Instrumental Choice
"Fully attentive to historical shifts in idiom and unusually adept at illuminating the personality of different instruments, he's also a quicksilver artist whose uncanny sense of phrasing responds to the moment-to-moment swerves of the music." Gramophone
" It's the combination of seven composers at their most wild and free, Melnikov's wonderful artistry, and the immersion in seven distinct sound-worlds which make this CD the most engrossing listening experience to have come my way in months." Daily Telegraph Five Stars
Tracks:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue in D minor BWV 903
On Two-manual harpischord by Markus Fischinger (Berlin, 2019), after Hans Ruckers II (Antwerp, 1624, rebuilt ca. 1720)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Fantasia in F-sharp minor H. 300, Wq. 67
On tangent piano (tangentenflügel) by Christoph Friedrich Schmahl (Regensburg, 1790), restored by Georg Ott
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Fantasia (Fragment) in C minor K. 396, "Fantasia (Fragment) in D minor K. 397
On fortepiano by Christoph Kern (Staufen im Breisgau, 2014), after Anton Walter (Vienna, 1795) - Alexander Melnikov's collection
Felix Mendelssohn: Fantasia in F-sharp minor Op. 28
On fortepiano by Alois Graff (Vienna, ca. 1828), restored by Edwin Beunk - Alexander Melnikov's collection
Frédéric Chopin: Fantasia in F minor Op. 49
On Érard piano (Paris, ca. 1885), restored by Markus Fischinger - Alexander Melnikov's collection
Ferrucio Busoni: Fantasia in modo antico Op. 33b/4 (extr. 6 Stücke, Op. 33b)
On Bechstein piano, model B (Berlin, ca. 1905-1910), restored by Carsten Schulz
Alfred Schnittke: Improvisation & Fugue Op. 38
On Steinway & Sons piano, model D-274 (2014)
