Cramer: 10 Piano Sonatas

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
February 7, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Johann Baptist Cramer
    • PERFORMER
      Simone El Oufir Pierini
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 07, 2025
    • UPC
      5028421964621
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96462
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro con spirito

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    2. II. Rondo: Allegro moderato con espressione

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    3. I. Moderato con espressione

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    4. II. Choral: Grave e sostenuto

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    5. III. Rondo: Moderato assai

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    6. I. Allegro spiritoso

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    7. II. Andantino con moto

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    8. III. Rondo quasi presto

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    9. I. Moderato con espressione

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    10. II. Allegretto non troppo

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    11. III. Rondo an carillon

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    12. I. Largo asssai -

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    13. II. Allegro quasi presto

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    14. III. Aria con variazioni: Thema: Moderato

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    15. III. Variation 1

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    16. III. Variation 2

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    17. III. Variation 3

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    18. III. Variation 4

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    19. III. Variation 5

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    20. III. Variation 6

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    21. III. Variation 7

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    22. I. Allegro non molto

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    23. II. Adagio -

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    24. III. Rondo: Allegretto

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    25. I. Largo assai

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    26. II. Allegro agitato

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    27. III. Allegretto

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    28. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    29. II. Adagio con espressione

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    30. III. Allegro quasi presto

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    31. I. Grave -

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    32. II. Moderato, energico ed espressivo assai

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    33. III. Andantino quasi allegretto

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    34. IV. Rondo più tosto moderato

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    35. I. Allegro brillante

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    36. II. Andantino

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini

    37. III. Rondo alla polacca: Allegro non tanto

      Composer: Johann Baptist Cramer

      Performer: Simone Pierini


The most comprehensive set on record of the sonatas by a pivotal figure in the English Classical piano school, including several first recordings. Johann Baptiste Cramer (1771-1858) was identified by the influential pedagogue Edward Dannreuther as 'one of the fathers of the church of pianoforte playing'. Born in Germany, he moved as a child to London with his family - his father Wilhelm was a violinist and conductor - and took lessons with a notable emigre of a previous generation, Muzio Clementi. Cramer came to follow in his teacher's footsteps, as both a pianist and a publisher. At one stage, his books of studies were scarcely less popular than the examples of Carl Czerny. He spent a good deal of time on the Continent, including in Vienna, where he won the friendship and admiration of Beethoven. In turn, Cramer became the English publisher of the composer's Fifth Piano Concerto, and was probably responsible for it's lasting nickname as the 'Emperor'. Cramer's own music is scantily represented on record by a few albums of studies, a concerto here and a sonata there. But as Simone Pierini demonstrates, Cramer's sonatas exhibit impressive variety, chronicling both his development as a composer and the technical evolution of the piano in the late-Classical and early-Romantic eras. He composed as many as 200 sonatas between 1790 and 1830, and Pierini presents a representative selection. They belong to the world of Clementi and Dussek but also Beethoven and Chopin in their elegant minuets, their minor-mode expressions of pathos and their virtuosic flourishes written to show off the skill but also the musicianship of any executant. Anyone with an interest in early-Romantic piano music will find Cramer's sonatas a delightful discovery. No stranger to the Brilliant Classics catalogue, Simone Pierini plays them on three fortepianos of the period, by Conrad Graf, Joseph Hasselman and Matthias Muller. He also contributes a full and illuminating booklet essay on Cramer's life and work. '[Pierini] plays with tremendous energy and conviction... A major addition to the catalogue.' Fanfare (de Montgeroult, 96247) 'His playing offers crisp clarity of texture and ornament... this is an interesting composer well worth adding to the fellowship of clavecinistes.' Gramophone (Le Bret, 96930).