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Schubert: Der Wanderer

Sylviane Deferne

Classical - Released October 7, 2022 | Aparté

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Prominent in the German Romantic imagination, the figure of the "wanderer" was also taken up by Franz Schubert. He composed a lied of that name, the theme of which was later to be found in his virtuosic Fantasy in C major, later aptly dubbed the "Wanderer-Fantasie". A tireless wanderer himself, Franz Liszt transcribed Schubert’s lied for piano and presented several versions of the Fantasy in C, including one for piano and orchestra and another for two pianos. Here Sylviane Deferne presents the rarest of Liszt’s versions of the Wanderer-Fantasie, the one for solo piano, with the last movement completely rewritten by the Hungarian composer. Two works by Schubert complete the programme: the 4 Impromptus, Op. 142, written a year before his death, and a rarely recorded early work, the Variations on a theme by Anselm Hüttenbrenner. © Aparté
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Schubert : Sonates Nos. 4 and 18 / Lachenmann : 5 Variations sur un thème de Schubert, Guero

Herbert Schuch

Classical - Released January 1, 2007 | Oehms Classics

Romanian-German pianist Herbert Schuch here offers a Schubert sonata recording that avoids the three final masterpieces yet succeeds in conveying the heft toward which Schubert was striving in several of his earlier works. The massive Piano Sonata in G major, D. 894, composed in 1826, equals the final B flat sonata in scope. Annotator Michael Kube points out that the work was published not as a sonata but under the title "Fantasie, Andante, Menuetto und Allegretto," showing the conceptual difficulty the work (and others of Schubert) caused the few listeners who heard them in his own time. Its long first movement is indeed something of a fantasy, less closely knit together than the B flat work but not improvisatory either. Kube puts it nicely: the movement "seems to exist in a world of its own and to be constructed of tonal surfaces." Schuch pays explicit tribute to Alfred Brendel in his own notes, and his playing here has a good deal of Brendel's careful, intellectual quality -- not exactly the thing, perhaps, for the effusion of melody in this sonata and in the simpler Piano Sonata in A minor, D 537, but quite effective in its balance among the large-scale sections of the G major sonata's first movement and quietly lyrical in the long stretches of figuration at the top of the keyboard. These are beautifully recorded by Oehms, with the pianist almost seeming to caress the keys. In all, it's a low-key Schubert recording that can stand comparison with any of the classics from Rudolf Serkin on down. The bookending works by contemporary composer Helmut Lachenmann, however, will be a disincentive for many listeners. They are linked to the Schubert only by the opening Five Variations on a Theme of Franz Schubert, based on a short binary dance. Lachenmann dutifully followed the dominant instructions of the day, in the serialist procedures of this 1950s work and the ethnic sounds of Guero (1970), which turns the piano into a giant Latin percussion instrument. The latter work, especially, shatters the mood.© TiVo
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Farrenc: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2 - Theme & Variations, Pt. 1

Maria Stratigou

Classical - Released August 11, 2023 | Grand Piano

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Schumann: Études symphoniques, Op. 13 - Études sur un thème de Beethoven, WoO 31 & Geistervariationen, WoO 24

Claire Désert

Classical - Released September 10, 2021 | Mirare

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From one recording to the next, French pianist Claire Désert continues her exploration of Schumann’s piano works with a new album focussed on the variation genre. She explores the manifold, elusive moods found in the “Symphonic Studies”, the “Etudes in Variation form on a Theme of Beethoven” and the “Geistervariationen” (Ghost Variations), like a diary of the composer. From a tribute to Beethoven to the ultimate variations composed right before sinking into the Rhine, it is all Romanticism that is sung by Schumann's piano, with its breaks and ideals. © Mirare
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My Rachmaninoff

Alexander Krichel

Classical - Released March 24, 2023 | Berlin Classics

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Dukas: Complete Piano Music

Vincenzo Maltempo

Classical - Released January 27, 2023 | Piano Classics

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Opus Posthum - Alexander & Julian Scriabin: Frühes Klavierwerk

Maria Lettberg

Classical - Released November 13, 2012 | Es-Dur

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Face à Face

Romain Leleu Sextet

Classical - Released October 1, 2021 | harmonia mundi

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For Romain Leleu, what we call "classical" music could never have gained all its richness and variety without absorbing manifold influences from “popular” music that continues to be its fuel since the dawn of time! Parallel to the release of his album of film music prominently featuring the trumpet, the French virtuoso, backed by his friends and partners in the Romain Leleu Sextet, has brought into a face to face dialogue a selection of hit tunes from far-flung sources that transcend genres and national borders. © harmonia mundi
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Bach: Tradition & Transcription

Skip Sempé

Classical - Released August 27, 2021 | Paradizo

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Skip Sempé performs Gustav Leonhardt's transcriptions of Bach’s unaccompanied violin and cello works for the harpsichord, along with a selection of 17th century harpsichord repertoire in styles influential to Bach. © Paradizo
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Johannes Brahms : Symphonies - Variations sur un thème de Haydn...

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Classical - Released November 6, 1997 | Warner Classics International

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Poulenc: Piano Music & Chamber Works

Pascal Rogé

Classical - Released January 1, 2005 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Berlioz: La damnation de Faust & Harold en Italie (Les indispensables de Diapason)

Igor Markevitch

Classical - Released May 2, 2023 | Les Indispensables de Diapason

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Franz Liszt: Recital

Joseph Moog

Classical - Released May 2, 2011 | Claves Records

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Récital

Anabel Montesinos

Classical - Released September 6, 2011 | Naxos

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Les trésors du violon

Jaime Laredo

Chamber Music - Released January 1, 1991 | Dorian

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Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2, 3 Hungarian Dances

Boris Berezovsky

Concertos - Released January 18, 2011 | Mirare

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Alain: L'oeuvre pour orgue (The Complete Organ Works)

Marie-Claire Alain

Classical - Released May 16, 2007 | Intrada