Release Date: 12 January 2000
Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4891030501683
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Romantic Piano Favourites, Vol. 5
Description
Romantic Piano Favourites, Volume 5 Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757): Sonatain E Major, K. 162 Luigi Boccherini (1743 - 1805) Minuet inA Major (tr. Balazs Szokolay)Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828) Marchemilitaire in D Major, D. 733/1 (arr. Balazs Szokolay)Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)Bagatelle in A Minor, Opus 59 (Fuer Elise)Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856) Album fuerdie Jugend, Opus 68; No.28 Erinnerung; No.12 Knecht Ruprecht Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809 - 1847)Venetian Boat Song, Opus 30 No.6 (from Songs without Words Book II)Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907) Wedding-day atTroldhaugen, Opus 65 No.6 (from Lyric Pieces) Maurice Ravel (1875 -1937) Pavanepour une infante defunte Johann & Josef Strauss (1825 - 1899)& 1827-1870) Pizzicato Polka (tr. Balazs Szokolay) Francois-Joseph Gossec (1734 - 1829)Gavotte 'Rosine' in D Major (tr. Theodore de Lajarte) Franz Lehar (1870 - 1948) Vilja from TheMerry Widow (tr. Balazs Szololay) Claude Debussy (1862- 1918) Arabesque in GMajor Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949) Staendchen,Opus 17 No.2 (tr. Walter Gieseking) Fryderyk Chopin (1871 - 1849) Nocturne in EFiat Major, Opus 9 No.2 Leon Jessel (1871 - 1942) Parade of theTin Soldiers, Opus 123 Pyotr Il'ylch Tchalkovsky (1840 - 1893)Romance in F Minor, Opus 5 Gustar Lange (1830 - 1889) Der klelnePostillon (The Little Postillion) The fifth volume of Romantic Piano Piecescovers a relatively wide range of well known music, some of it popular ratherthan Romantic in any strict sense. The age of the piano began in the nineteenthcentury, although a form of pianoforte had been developed much earlier.Technical changes, however, and changes in society, made the piano thefavourite instrument of a growing middle class. There was an enormous demandfor piano teachers and for piano music suitable for domestic performance by theambitious. Until recently, indeed, learning music, in England at least, hasbeen synonymous with learning the piano. The present collection opens with acharming, delicate and characteristic sonata by the Italian composer DomenicoScarlatti, son of the distinguished Alessandro, composer of Neapolitan opera,and himself, for much of his career, in the service of the Portuguese MariaBarbara, Queen of Spain, for whom he wrote some 550 Esercizi, Exercises laterknown as sonatas, short pieces of remarkable invention.Boccherini's Minuet comes from aset of ten Minuets published in 1788 by a composer who, in his time, rivalledHaydn in popularity. Italian by birth, Boccherini, like Domenico Scarlatti, spentmuch of his career in the service of the Spanish royal family. He came from afamily that won distinction in ballet as well as in music and was himself acello virtuoso, an accomplishment that led to a brief period of employment bythe cello-playing King of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm II.Franz Schubert's three Marchesmilitaires, written for piano duet, were probably composed during thesummer of 1818 for the composer's pupils, the daughters of Count Johann KarlEsterhazy, a member o
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yaqi Yang; Margarita Parsamyan; Robynne Redmon; Minghao Liu; Frank Ragsdale; Kim Josephson; Kevin S
Vilmos Csikos; Olivier Lechardeur; Manon Lamaison
Tomas Cotik; Martingale Ensemble; Ken Selden
