Alkan
Cantique des cantiques
Rachmaninov
Serenade op. 3 No. 5 (rev. version)
Chopin – Godowsky
Study No. 42 in a minor (after op. 25 No. 11)
Confrey
Kitten on the Keys
Heinrich von Sahr
From “Stimmen der Nacht” op. 3 (1854) No. 2
William Sterndale Bennett
Rondeau à la Polonaise op. 37
Medtner
Fairy Tale, op.8, 2
Georges Bizet
Départ (from “Chants du Rhin”, 1866
Gabriel Fauré
Nocturne No. 2
Nocturne No. 13
Fauré – Grainger
Nell op. 18, 1
Palmgren
Feux-follets op. 35, 3
Tchaikovsky – Pletnjov
Andante maestoso (from “The Nutcracker”)
Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 10 (1. Version)
Gluck – Chasins
Melody from “Orpheus”)
Gershwin – Wild
I got Rhythm (from “Seven Virtuoso Etudes”)
Rarities of Piano Music 1989 ©
Purists have always disputed that a trancription for the piano could be superior to the original work or even reach an analogous artistic standing in its own right, whilst ‘Pianophiles’ have always proclaimed it to be the case.
A piece favored by pianists of the ‘old school’ was the Balakirev version of the Glinka-song “Die Lerche” (the Lark). Boris Bloch’s interpretation with its sublime legato touch and instrumental
brilliance furthered this impression, and the piece was yet again a great success on this concert evening. As a further example of Russian music adapted for the piano Bloch followed with the multisonous modern version of the Andante maestoso from Tschaikovsky’s ‘Nutcracker’ Ballet-suite. The pianist Michael Pletnev, born in 1952, winner of the Tschaikovsky-Competition in 1978, trod quite clearly in the footsteps of Thalberg and Liszt with the undulating thundering arpeggios o fhis piano transcription.
RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 1990
CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 349
EAN: 5709499349007
