Hanns Eisler
1. Klavierstiick Op.3 No.I (1923)
Alexei Stanchinsky
2. Sketch Op.1 No.2 (c.1911)
Nikolai Medtner
3. Allegro con grazia (quasi valse) Op.1 No.8
Wladimir Vogel
4. Trepak (1919)
Robert Schumann
5. Du bist wie eine Blume Op.25 No. 24 (transcribed by Clara Schumann)
Edvard Grieg
Piano pieces arranged from his own songs
6. I love you
7. The Princess
8. The Poet’s Heart
Robert Schumann
9. Exercises (Studies in the form of free variations on a theme of Beethoven)
Frédéric Chopin
10. Valse in F sharp minor (Op. posth.)
Maurice Ravel
11. “La Parade” – Suite de ballet (1896)
Alexander Scriabin
12. Nocturne in D flat major, Op.9 No. 2 (for the left hand alone)
13. Sonata No. 8, Op.66 (1912/13)
Jean Sibelius
14. Forest Lake (Waldsee) Op. 114 No.3 (1928)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
15. Voce luntana (ftom “Piedigrotta 1924”)
Clément Doucet
16. Isoldina (1928)
Walter Jurmann (arr. A. Hassan)
17. Adieu (1935)
Novelty piano ©
Concerts do not have to be entirely serious affairs, and the 2007 Husum festival began with a delightful selection of piano music from the 1920s and 30s, played by Alex Hassan” an American expert on the “Novelty” piano styles of the period. First comes an arrangement by Clément Doucet, who was born in
Belgium, and after studying music worked in Paris for the organ-builder Cavaillé-Coll. He was in the USA from 1920-3, where he became a close friend of Gershwin, and developed his jazz style, particularly the New York “stride piano” technique for the left hand.
RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 2008
CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 679
EAN: 5709499679005
