1. Courante und Trio D major
2. Gavotte et Musette F flat minor
3. Le Luth (2ème sérénade) E flat minor
4. Sérénade française G major
5. Barcarolle F major
6. Scherzo pastoral D major
7. Serenata veneziana A major
8. Sempre scherzando C major
Sonata no. 2 E flat major
9. Allegro moderato
10. Nocturno. Lento
11. Scherzo. Molto vivace
12. Rondo. Allegro
Emil von Sauer ©
Emil von Sauer’s piano works mark the twilight of an era in which the composerpianist was still in fashion. Sauer. Godowsky, Hofmann, Rachmaninov, Levitzki, Gabrilowitsch,
Rosenthal, Busoni and Paderewski were just a few of the reigning titans who frequently played their own compositions on the concert stage.
The music of most of these composers has unfortunately fallen out of vogue today (due in no small part to contemporaneous critics who proclaimed transcriptions and salon pieces as “second rate” and even dismissed Rachmaninov’s works).
However, turn of the century audiences enthusiastically applauded, demanded even, these works, if not during the actual programmed recital then afterwards as encores.
RELEASE DATE: MAY 2000
CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 534
EAN: 5709499534007
