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Toccata

The Birth Of The Etude / Anna Petrova-Forster

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Composer: VARIOUS
Artist: Anna Petrova-Forster
Format: CD
Label: Toccata
Released: Mar 19, 2021
Catalog #: TOCN0005
UPC: 5060640070059

About

The best-known piano studies are the 27 by Chopin, most of them composed in the 1830s. But Chopin did not create the genre: a number of prominent pianist-composers had already established the piano study, or étude, in the decades before Chopin sat down to write his. Although this repertoire is as good as unknown today, it is a treasure-trove of miniature jewels, many of them announcing the dawn of Romanticism in their combination of Classical delicacy and a new harmonic warmth. Anna Petrova-Forster received her first piano lessons at the age of six. After graduating as a soloist in the class of Professor Liuba Entcheva at the Sofia Music Academy, she entered Louis Hiltbrands master- class at the Geneva Conservatoire, where she remained until his death. She obtained a second solo diploma at the Lucerne Conservatoire in Hubert Harrys class. For over two years she worked on various chamber-music programs with Nathan Milstein in London. Anna Petrova-Forster has appeared on radio and television broadcasts as both soloist and chamber musician. Her wish to rediscover the compositions of lesser-known composers from the past has led to recordings of music by such unfamiliar figures as William Baines, Sergei Bortkiewicz, Alexander Grechaninov, Josef Matthias Hauer, August Alexander Klengel and Daniel Steibelt.

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Tracklist 28 tracks

1 Etude No. 26 02:40

Track
1

Title
Etude No. 26
Duration
02:40
Composer
Johann Baptist Cramer
Performer
Anna Petrova
2 Etude No. 77 02:46

Track
2

Title
Etude No. 77
Duration
02:46
Composer
Johann Baptist Cramer
Performer
Anna Petrova
3 No. 31 in A Minor 01:02

Track
3

Title
No. 31 in A Minor
Duration
01:02
Composer
Daniel Gottlieb Steibelt
Performer
Anna Petrova
4 No. 26 in D Minor 04:56

Track
4

Title
No. 26 in D Minor
Duration
04:56
Composer
Daniel Gottlieb Steibelt
Performer
Anna Petrova
5 No. 33 in D Minor 01:42

Track
5

Title
No. 33 in D Minor
Duration
01:42
Composer
Daniel Gottlieb Steibelt
Performer
Anna Petrova
6 No. 10 in G Major 01:46

Track
6

Title
No. 10 in G Major
Duration
01:46
Composer
Daniel Gottlieb Steibelt
Performer
Anna Petrova
7 No. 11 in E-Flat Major 02:39

Track
7

Title
No. 11 in E-Flat Major
Duration
02:39
Composer
Daniel Gottlieb Steibelt
Performer
Anna Petrova
8 No. 30 in C Major 01:24

Track
8

Title
No. 30 in C Major
Duration
01:24
Composer
Daniel Gottlieb Steibelt
Performer
Anna Petrova
9 No. 24 in F Minor 02:38

Track
9

Title
No. 24 in F Minor
Duration
02:38
Composer
Daniel Gottlieb Steibelt
Performer
Anna Petrova
10 Étude No. 41 in F Minor 01:53

Track
10

Title
Étude No. 41 in F Minor
Duration
01:53
Composer
Joseph Wölfl
Performer
Anna Petrova
11 Étude No. 18 in D Minor 02:59

Track
11

Title
Étude No. 18 in D Minor
Duration
02:59
Composer
Joseph Wölfl
Performer
Anna Petrova
12 Étude No. 15 in E-Flat Major 04:01

Track
12

Title
Étude No. 15 in E-Flat Major
Duration
04:01
Composer
Joseph Wölfl
Performer
Anna Petrova
13 Etude No. 110 in A Major 02:38

Track
13

Title
Etude No. 110 in A Major
Duration
02:38
Composer
Hélène-Antoinette-Marie de Nervo de Montgeroult
Performer
Anna Petrova
14 Etude No. 78 in B Major 04:06

Track
14

Title
Etude No. 78 in B Major
Duration
04:06
Composer
Hélène-Antoinette-Marie de Nervo de Montgeroult
Performer
Anna Petrova
15 Etude No. 7 in B-Flat Minor 03:07

Track
15

Title
Etude No. 7 in B-Flat Minor
Duration
03:07
Composer
João Domingos Bomtempo
Performer
Anna Petrova
16 Etude No. 5 in E Major 03:47

Track
16

Title
Etude No. 5 in E Major
Duration
03:47
Composer
João Domingos Bomtempo
Performer
Anna Petrova
17 Etude No. 11 in G Minor 01:18

Track
17

Title
Etude No. 11 in G Minor
Duration
01:18
Composer
João Domingos Bomtempo
Performer
Anna Petrova
18 No. 1 in C Major 02:06

Track
18

Title
No. 1 in C Major
Duration
02:06
Composer
Ludwig Berger
Performer
Anna Petrova
19 No. 3 in C Minor 00:58

Track
19

Title
No. 3 in C Minor
Duration
00:58
Composer
Ludwig Berger
Performer
Anna Petrova
20 No. 4 in D Major 04:53

Track
20

Title
No. 4 in D Major
Duration
04:53
Composer
Ludwig Berger
Performer
Anna Petrova
21 No. 8 in B-Flat Minor 02:02

Track
21

Title
No. 8 in B-Flat Minor
Duration
02:02
Composer
Ludwig Berger
Performer
Anna Petrova
22 12 Etudes, Op. 12: No. 9. Andante con moto (Study for the left hand only) 04:27

Track
22

Title
12 Etudes, Op. 12: No. 9. Andante con moto (Study for the left hand only)
Duration
04:27
Composer
Ludwig Berger
Performer
Anna Petrova
23 12 Etudes, Op. 12: No. 11 in G Minor 01:38

Track
23

Title
12 Etudes, Op. 12: No. 11 in G Minor
Duration
01:38
Composer
Ludwig Berger
Performer
Anna Petrova
24 No. 3 in C Minor 01:53

Track
24

Title
No. 3 in C Minor
Duration
01:53
Composer
Ludwig Berger
Performer
Anna Petrova
25 No. 1 in A Minor 03:10

Track
25

Title
No. 1 in A Minor
Duration
03:10
Composer
Ludwig Berger
Performer
Anna Petrova
26 No. 14 in B Major 04:28

Track
26

Title
No. 14 in B Major
Duration
04:28
Composer
Ludwig Berger
Performer
Anna Petrova
27 No. 30 in D Major 04:27

Track
27

Title
No. 30 in D Major
Duration
04:27
Composer
Alexandre-Pierre-François Boëly
Performer
Anna Petrova
28 No. 3 in F Major 02:02

Track
28

Title
No. 3 in F Major
Duration
02:02
Composer
Alexandre-Pierre-François Boëly
Performer
Anna Petrova