Release Date: 01 January 2012
Label: Heritage Records / Heritage
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060332660117
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: ULLMANN - PIANO SONATAS
Release Date: 01 January 2017
Label: Heritage Records / Heritage
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060332661848
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: ULLMANN - PIANO SONATAS
Description
Viktor Ullmann was born into an assimilated Jewish family in 1898 and although he enrolled to study law in 1918, he soon came into contact with Schoenberg and his circle and the rich musical life of Vienna. He moved to Prague in 1919 where he worked with Alexander Zemlinsky and began to establish himself as a composer. He follows in the musical traditions of Mahler and Berg and, in a similar vein, often tempered even the bleakest music with sardonic humour. The Second Viennese School remained his primary stylistic focus but he refused to abandon tonality altogether, which led him to find a middle ground between Schoenberg's radicalism and the lyrical romanticism of a previous generation. In 1942 he was deported to Theresienstadt (and later died in Auschwitz) where he composed the fifth, sixth and seventh piano sonatas which, along with the fourth sonata, appear on this Heritage issue. Maria Garzon, the acclaimed Spanish pianist, performs.
Description
Maria Garzon, the acclaimed Spanish pianist, has recorded her second and final volume of the piano sonatas of Viktor Ullmann for the Heritage label, focussing on the early sonatas and the Schoenberg Variations, Op. 3a. Maria received widespread praise for her first volume which brought the music of Ullmann to the attention of a wider group of people and has since made the composer something of a speciality in the concert hall.
Alfreda Hodgson; Keith Swallow; Alan Rowlands; Ludmila Navratil
VARIOUS ARTISTS
NEW PHILHARMONIA/RPO/POPE
Philharmonia Orchestra; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Myer Fredman; Charles Mackerras; Lionel Friend
Various
Maria Garzon
Duncan Honeybourne
Aisha Syed Castro
Maria Garzon
MARIA GARZON
MARIA GARZON
MARIA GARZON
MARIA GARZON
MARIA GARZON
