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Reynaldo Hahn: Le ruban dénoué for two pianos
1. No. 1 DĂ©crets indolents du hasard
2. No. 3 Souvenir ⊠avenir
Alexander Tsfasman: Jazz-Suite for two pianos
3. No. 3 Lyrical Waltz
4. No. 4 Career. Presto
CĂ©cile Chaminade: 6 Romances sans paroles, Op. 76
5. No. 6 MĂ©ditation
6. No. 2 ĂlĂ©vation
Josef Holbrooke: 8 Nocturnes, Op. 121
7. No. 5 “Bridal Ballad” (E.A.Poe)
Percy Sherwood
8. Barcarole No. 2, Op. 24 (1915)
Josef Suk: Things Lived and Dreamt, Op. 30
9. No. 6 Moderato quasi Allegretto
10. No. 9 Poco Andante
Franz Schubert
11. MĂ©lodie hongroise in B minor, D817
Franz Liszt
12. Valse oubliée No. 2
Sergei Rachmaninov
13. Prélude in F Major
14. Morceau de fantaisie in G minor
15. Oriental Sketch
Issay Dobrowen
16. Jugend-Sonate, Op. 5b
Rued Langgaard: Gitanjali-Hymner (after Tagore), BVN 149
17. VIII. Tavshedens Hav (The Sea of Silence), BVN 201
Husum & Covid ©
It is now 35 years since the inaugural concert of the festival âRarities of Piano Musicâ, held in the North German castle of âSchloss vor Husumâ. Every year
since then, Danacord has released an album of selected highlights from the previous yearâs event.
The unique nature of the festival is documented in a book, Beyond the Mainstream (published in 2011), which explains about the raison dâeÌtre of Rarities of
Piano Music and the (always difficult!) programming decisions facing its team of organisers, led by the artistic director Peter Froundjian.
There are many collectors and pianophiles worldwide who have unfailingly slotted each new Husum CD into their collection. For them, this collection of
highlights from the 2021 festival will make only partial amends for the absence of a 2020 album: a permanent state of affairs, owing to the inevitable
cancellation of the festival in the midst of the pandemic.
A three-day mini-festival was at one stage planned for May 2021, in the style of Alkanâs âSix Petits concertsâ, but the idea proved unworkable.
And so, nothing daunted, Froundjian and his team refused to throw away the hard work of their planning for 2020, and simply reprogrammed the events for
the following year, with the grateful co-operation of all the artists concerned. Practical obstacles still had to be overcome while Covid-19 continued to wreak
havoc on everyday life. Concerts took place as usual in the Rittersaal (âKnightsâ Hall) of the castle (originally built outside Husum, but now surrounded by the bustle
of this seaside town on the North Sea). The audience capacity was reduced by half to meet legal regulations on social distancing. Thus, in order to satisfy the same
number of piano-enthusiasts who steadfastly returned to the festival, the pianists were required to perform their programmes twice: in the late afternoon, and
again in the early evening, thereby playing for the same size of audience that Husum has hosted for the past 33 years.
RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 2022
CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 939
EAN: 5709499939000
