John Damgaard plays Schubert Sonatas and Piano Works

Name: John Damgaard plays Schubert Sonatas and Piano Works
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John Damgaard
The Danish pianist John Damgaard (1941-) studied at Eastman School of Music (New York), The Royal Danish Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen with Georg Vasarhelyi and later with Ilona Kabos in London and Wilhelm Kempff in Italy.
From 1969-1984 John Damgaard was assistant professor at The Royal Danish Academy of Music and 1979-81 guest professor at Musashino Academia Musicae in Tokyo, Japan. From 1984-2005 he held the academic position of professor at The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus.
John Damgaard has given concerts in USA, Canada, Mexico, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy, France, Belgium, Japan, Australia, primarily with classical, romantic programs, but almost always including Danish piano works. He has performed more than 31 different piano concerti.
For many years John Damgaard was a member of the piano trio Tre Musici.
He has made more than 30 CD’s – among other the complete piano works by Ravel on 2 CDs, the complete finished sonatas by Schubert on 5 CDs and Beethoven’s 3 last sonatas…
Besides giving Master classes at Scandinavian Conservatories and in Japan he has been guest professor at ANAM (Australian National Academy of Music) in Melbourne. John Damgaard has translated Alfred Cortot’s book Principes Rationnels de la Technique Pianistique into Danish as well as Josef Lhevinnes book Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing.
(see: www.johnd.dk)

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Franz Schubert

CD 1
Sonata in A minor, D537 (1817)
1. Allegro, ma non troppo
2. Allegretto quasi andantino
3. Allegro vivace

Sonata in E-flat major, D568 (1817)
4. Allegro moderato
5. Andante
6. Menuetto. Allegretto
7. Allegro moderato

Sonata in A minor, D845 (1825)
8. Moderato
9. Andante, poco mosso
10. Scherzo. Allegro vivace
11. Rondo. Allegro vivace

CD 2
Sonata in B major, D575 (1817)
1. Allegro, ma non troppo
2. Andante molto
3. Scherzo. Allegretto
4. Allegro giusto

Sonata in D major, D850 (1825)
5. Allegro vivace
6. Con moto
7. Scherzo. Allegro vivace
8. Rondo. Allegro moderato

CD 3
Sonata in G major, D894 (1826)
1. Molto moderato e cantabile
2. Andante
3. Menuetto. Allegro moderato
4. Allegretto

Sonata in A major, D664 (1821)
5. Allegro moderato
6. Andante
7. Allegro

Sonata in C minor, D958 (1828)
8. Allegro
9. Adagio
10. Menuetto. Allegro
11. Allegro

CD 4
Sonata in A major, D959 (1828)
1. Allegro
2. Andantino
3. Scherzo. Allegro vivace
4. Rondo. Allegretto

Sonata in B-flat major, D960 (1828)
5. Molto moderato
6. Andante sostenuto
7. Scherzo: Allegro vivace con delicatezza
8. Allegro, ma non troppo

CD 5
4 Impromptus D899 (1827)
1. I. C minor – Allegro molto moderato
2. II. E-flat major – Allegro
3. III. G-flat major – Andante
4. IV. A-flat major – Allegretto

4 Impromptus D935 (1827)
5. I. F minor – Allegro moderato
6. II. A-flat major – Allegretto
7. III. B-flat major – Andante
8. IV. F minor – Allegro scherzando

Drei Klavierstücke D946 (1828)
9. I. E-flat minor – Allegro assai

CD 6
Drei Klavierstücke D946 (1828)
1. II. E-flat major – Allegretto
2. III. C major – Allegro

Sonata in E minor, D566 (1817)
3. Moderato
4. Allegretto

Sonata in C major ”Relique”, D840 (1825)
5. Moderato
6. Andante

Sonata in F minor, D625 (1818)
7. Allegro
8. Scherzo. Allegretto
9. Allegro

Schubert’s piano sonatas ©
Schubert’s Lieder, his more than 600 songs with piano, constitute a brilliant chapter in the world of classical music, and for a long time his symphonies and chamber music have taken their rightful place in the concert repertoire. How then can one explain that relatively few of his piano sonatas are known to the large music public? And this despite the efforts of our century’s greatest pianists to convince us of the sonatas’ great musical qualities – from Artur Schnabel to Wilhelm Kempff (John Damgaard’s teacher), to Alfred Brendel and András Schiff, to name some of the best known artists.
In seeking a reason, one does not have to dig too deeply before meeting the first and greatest name, Ludwig van Beethoven, undisputed master of the classical piano sonata. In no other genre did Schubert come so close to Beethoven as in the piano sonata. When the A minor sonata D845 was published in 1826, the connection was clearly sensed by an admiring reviewer, who wrote that the sonata “within the defined framework moves so freely and unusually, so boldly and now and then strangely, that it could really be called, not without justification, a fantasy. In this last respect it could be compared with the greatest and freest of Beethoven’s sonatas”.
It is obvious enough that Beethoven’s piano sonatas were a source of inspiration for Schubert; had they not been would be almost inexplicable. But it is equally clear that the young Schubert tried to free himself from the big models in order to go his own way. When one looks at the works he wrote in that field,
it quickly becomes clear that it was not the easiest route to take. John Damgaard’s recording comprises all Schubert’s completed sonatas, eleven in all. But there are just as many sonatas that were left unfinished, for one reason or another. And these incomplete works contain a wealth of musical jewels that are a delight to hear, yet another example of the composer’s abundant ability to write a tune. Which other composer could have afforded to let such an overwhelming amount of material lie unused?
Having written a series of Mozart-inspired piano fantasies as a 13–14-year-old, the 18- year-old Schubert began to write his first piano sonata (D157 in E major) in February 1815. But something went wrong in the first movement; a week later he revised it considerably and wrote two more movements, but
apparently never started the finale. He got going again in September 1815. This was to be Sonata I, he wrote on the manuscript; but again a last movement is missing. When today we allow ourselves to say that a movement is missing, it is not only because it is uncommon to end with a minuet movement, as these two sonatas do, but more because both works end in a different key from that of the first movement, something that never happens in any of Schubert’s complete sonatas.

RELEASE DATE: MARCH 2025

CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 575-580

EAN: 5709499575802

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