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Czerny: Violin Sonatas / Lessing, Kuerti, Klaas

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Composer
CZERNY, CARL
Artist
Lessing, Klaas, Kuerti
Format
CD
Label
CPO
Released
Jan 04, 2019
Catalog #
777822-2
UPC
761203782222

About

Kolja Lessing, one of the most versatile musicians of our time, has energized music culture with significant impulses as a violinist and pianist who combines interpretive and scholarly work. For cpo he has now recorded two violin sonatas by Carl Czerny. After producing several violin and piano sonatas Czerny wrote his grand Sonata Concertante in four movements in 1848, the year of the failed revolution. The contrast to his first Violin Sonata of 1807, a work of his youth, could hardly be greater: reconsideration of Mozartian rhetoric and compositional technique mark this work pulsing with astonishing kinetic energy and with a concertante character for the most part embodied by the piano, while the violin part instead is assigned more the role of brilliant commentary or pointed interaction. Kolja Lessing himself wrote the booklet text and expresses the greatest thanks to Anton Kuerti – not only for his tireless research, investigation, and revival of Czerny’s colossal oeuvre but also just as much for his meticulous transcription of what in part are Czerny’s difficult-to-decipher manuscripts into modern notation. “Accordingly, Anton Kuerti, as Czerny’s real rediscoverer, shall have the last word with a deeply felt statement about these treasures that have now been unearthed: It is a rare privilege to find music that has been so inexcusably neglected and now brought back to life.”

Tracklist 7 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro con brio 15:38
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro con brio
    Duration
    15:38
    Composer
    Carl Czerny
    Performer
    Kolja Lessing, Rainer Maria Klaas
  2. 2 II. Andante grazioso 12:51
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andante grazioso
    Duration
    12:51
    Composer
    Carl Czerny
    Performer
    Kolja Lessing, Rainer Maria Klaas
  3. 3 III. Allegro moderato 13:23
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Allegro moderato
    Duration
    13:23
    Composer
    Carl Czerny
    Performer
    Kolja Lessing, Rainer Maria Klaas
  4. 4 I. Allegro molto vivace 09:38
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Allegro molto vivace
    Duration
    09:38
    Composer
    Carl Czerny
    Performer
    Kolja Lessing, Anton Kuerti
  5. 5 II. Allegretto grazioso 05:06
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Allegretto grazioso
    Duration
    05:06
    Composer
    Carl Czerny
    Performer
    Kolja Lessing, Anton Kuerti
  6. 6 III. Molto vivace 05:28
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Molto vivace
    Duration
    05:28
    Composer
    Carl Czerny
    Performer
    Kolja Lessing, Anton Kuerti
  7. 7 IV. Molto allegro quasi Presto 11:25
    Track
    7
    Title
    IV. Molto allegro quasi Presto
    Duration
    11:25
    Composer
    Carl Czerny
    Performer
    Kolja Lessing, Anton Kuerti