Cat No:
CDH55311
Release Date: 01 February 2011
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571153117
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
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Description
Stephen Coombs's 'Russian Piano Portraits' series turns its attention to solo piano music by Anton Arensky, one of the more shadowy figures of the Russian pianistic pantheon. Bon viveur extraordinaire, Arensky lived life in Moscow to the full—and to the disgust of colleagues such as Rimsky-Korsakov—but he was also an important teacher whose pupils included Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Glière and Grechaninov. Indeed, it was Arensky, together with Taneyev (successor to Rubinstein as director of the Moscow Conservatory), who shaped a situation in 1880s Moscow which finally allowed the city to rival St Petersburg in terms of its musical culture.
Arensky's piano pieces have an easy charm and lyrical breadth of melodic invention. They also show rare inventiveness. There is a quality that is both nostalgic and surprising, reassuringly familiar yet unconventional in harmonic and melodic construction. This music has the power to move the emotions, not perhaps in a dramatic or passionate way, but by its rather personal reflective quality. -
Tracklisting
- 1. Six Caprices Op 43
- 2. Six Pièces Op 53
- 3. 24 Characteristic Pieces Op 36
- 4. Près de la mer Six Esquisses Op 52
- 5. Quatre Morceaux Op 25
- 6. Quatre Études Op 41
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Kalabis: Duettina, Chamber music & Diptych
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Honey-coloured cow
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Brian: Agamemnon & Symphonies Nos 6 & 12
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Saint-Saens: The complete works for piano and orchestra
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