Blumenfeld: 24 Preludes, Op. 17 / Viner

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Label
Piano Classics
Release Date
September 23, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Felix Blumenfeld
    • PERFORMER
      Mark Viner
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 23, 2022
    • UPC
      5029365102131
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PCL10213
    • LABEL
      Piano Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1 in C Major: Andante religioso

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    2. No. 2 in A Minor: Allegro agitato

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    3. No. 3 in G Minor: Allegretto

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    4. No. 4 in E Minor: Andante

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    5. No. 5 in D Major: Allegretto

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    6. No. 6 in B Minor: Allegro molto

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    7. No. 7 in A Major: Allegro vivo

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    8. No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor: Allegro vivo

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    9. No. 9 in E Major: Maestoso

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    10. No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor: Andante

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    11. No. 11 in B Major: Andante con moto

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    12. No. 12 in G shapr minor: Presto

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    13. No. 13 in F-Sharp Major: Andantino

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    14. No. 14 in E-Flat Minor: Andante maestoso e lugubre

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    15. No. 15 in D-Flat Major: Allegro non tanto

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    16. No. 16 in B-Flat Minor: Adagio

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    17. No. 17 in A-Flat Major: Allegro

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    18. No. 18 in F Minor, "Memento mori": Andante

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    19. No. 19 in E-Flat Major: Andante

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    20. No. 20 in C Minor: Allegro furioso

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    21. No. 21 in B-Flat Major: Andante tranquillo

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    22. No. 22 in G Minor: Allegro

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    23. No. 23 in F Major: Allegro

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    24. No. 24 in D Minor: Presto

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    25. Etude for the left hand in A-Flat Major, Op. 36

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    26. Etude de concert in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 24

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner


Felix Blumenfeld (1863-1931) was a virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher whose class comprised the likes of Simon Barere, Maria Grinberg and Vladimir Horowitz. But he was also a composer of an oeuvre of breathtaking beauty, originality and sophistication. Even in his mid 20s Blumenfeld began teaching at the St Petersburg Conservatoire but resigned in protest at Rimsky-Korsakov’s dismissal following the senior composer’s support of the protestors killed in the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1905. At length he returned to his post but left for Kyiv on the outbreak of the Russian revolution, and became rector of the conservatoire founded by Mykola Lysenko (where he taught Horowitz). Chopin, Wagner, and other Romantic-era masters all make their presence felt in the surging melodies and passionate harmonies of Blumenfeld’s own music.

Published in 1892 by Belaieff and dedicated to Rimsky-Korsakov’s wife, the Op.17 form a quintessential work of Slavic late Romanticism. They are structured in four books of six preludes, touched with the solemnity of Orthodox chant at points and often aspiring to a grand and tragic idiom despite their relative brevity and tending towards melancholy even in the major-key pieces. The Op.17 Preludes are complemented in this new recording by Blumenfeld’s study for the left hand Op.36 – relatively familiar as an example of the technique and widely promoted by the likes of Godowsky and Lewenthal. The Op.24 Etude de Concert is a dazzling accumulation of piano sonority requiring the deftest of hands and care over voicing to bring its towering chords to life.