CD 1
Adolf von Henselt
1. Etude in D minor Op.2 No.1
2. Etude in D flat major Op.2 No.2
Moritz Moszkowski
3. Etincelles Op.36 No.6
Frédéric Chopin
4. Bolero Op.19
Franz Schubert / Carl Tausig
5. Andantino and Variations Op.84 No.1
Leopold Godowsky
6. The Gardens of Buitenzorg
Richard Strauss / Godowsky
7. StÀndchen
George Gershwin / Earl Wild
8. Summertime
Godowsky
9. Elegy (for the left hand alone)
Erwin Schulhoff
10. Tango (Cinq Etudes de Jazz)
Richard Wagner / Hans von BĂŒlow
11. Paraphrase des Quintetts aus âMeistersingerâ
CĂ©cile Chaminade
12. Autrefois Op.87 No. 4
Pierre Sancan
13. Caprice romantique (main gauche seule)
Florent Schmitt
14. Le cheval de Ferme-lâoeil Op.58 No.3
15. Le parapluie chinois Op.58 No.7
Sergei Rachmaninov
16. Waltz for 6 hands
Carl Nielsen
13 pieces from âPiano music for young and oldâ Op.53
17. No.1 Allegretto
18. No.2 Andantino quasi Allegretto
19. No.3a Allegro scherzoso
20. No.3b Grazioso
21. No.4 Andantino
22. No.5 Allegro giocoso
23. No.6 Poco lamentoso
24. No.7 Marziale
25. No.14 Capriccioso
26. No.15 Adagio espressivo
27. No.17 Largo con fantasia
28. No.19 âAlla Bachâ
29. No.21 Marcia di goffo
CD 2
Franz Liszt
1. KlavierstĂŒck in F sharp major (c. 1867)
Claude Debussy
2. Masques
Charles-Valentin Alkan
Esquisses Op. 63
3. No. 32
4. No. 46
5. No. 45
Liszt
6. Les cloches de G(enĂšve), 1st version
Emmanuel Chabrier
7. Air de Ballet
8. Mauresque
Karol Szymanowski
9. Valse romantique
Mikhail Glinka / Mily Balakirev
10. The Lark
Fritz Kreisler / Rachmaninov
11. Liebesleid
Jean-Philippe Rameau / Godowsky
12. Elégie
John Ireland
13. The Island Spell
Rachmaninov / Earl Wild
14. The Floods of Spring
Marc-André Hamelin
15. Etude No.12 (Prelude and Fugue) (1984-5)
Robert Schumann
16. Abschied (Waldszenen)
Heitor Villa-Lobos
17. Ciranda No.4
Joseph Joachim
18. Variationen ĂŒber ein irisches Elfenlied
Rarities of Piano Music ©
âRarities of Piano Musicâ is a festival which has received many superlative notices in the press, such as âprobably the most extraordinary piano festival in the
worldâ, or âthe most exotic festival which the German cultural landscape can musterâ. After almost a quarter of a century we can afford to take a retrospective view as follows: already in the first two years the profile of the festival was very clear, not only in its programme as a whole, but also from the viewpoint of the selection of pieces on the two CDs presented here.
It was from the very start a festival which allowed no prejudice in the assessment of the music presented, and wished to help to restore forgotten qualities in their own right. The inaugural concert on 16th August 1987 was given by Michael Ponti, a pianist who had won much respect for his revival of neglected Romantic piano works, and set a benchmark with the very first items in his programme: two Characteristic Studies from Op.95 by Ignaz Moscheles and two Concert Studies from Op.2 by Adolf von Henselt. His programme continued with works by composers including Anton Rubinstein, Rachmaninov, Medtner, Tausig, Moszkowski, Felix Blumenfeld and Wagner-Liszt. During the following evenings one could hear music by Chabrier, Florent Schmitt, Claude Delvincourt, Ignaz Friedman, Albeniz, Busoni, Leopold Godowsky and Alkan, as well as rarely-heard works by Chopin, Liszt and Schumann. This profile was further sharpened in 1988, with performances of works by John Ireland, Sibelius, Nielsen, Langgaard and the Arabesques on Johann Straussâs âBlue Danubeâ by Schulz-Evler â music which for a long time, indeed for many decades in the middle of the 20th century, had disappeared from the concert-hall. âWhy exactly?â, asked a new generation of enraptured piano enthusiasts, hearing the subtle qualities which are hidden away in these works, and they wanted âmore of it, pleaseâ, as one would say nowadays.
RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 2010
CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 299
EAN: 5709499299005
