Dussek: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2 / Kuijken
Details
- Composer
- DUSSEK, JAN LADISLAV
- Artist
- Piet Kuijken
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Brilliant Classics
- Released
- Jun 22, 2018
- Catalog #
- BRI95602
- UPC
- 5028421956022
About
These sonatas date from a high-point in the career of the Czech-born Jan Ladislaus Dussek (1760-1812), at a time when he was established in London as a sought-after performer and fashionable piano teacher. His partnership with the instrument-maker John Broadwood resulted in significant technical developments to the fortepiano which would be imitated abroad and capitalized upon in Vienna by Beethoven, notably the extra power and larger range. The Sonata Op.25 No.2 in D has become famous under the name ‘La Matinée’: a subtitle work that conveys the lively spirit of the sonata and its irresistible sense of good cheer even in the lyric simplicity of the third-movement Larghetto. The three Op.39 sonatas are more elaborate in conception and design without forsaking the earlier work’s transparency and grace. The first movements of Op.39 abound in brilliant figuration, which evidently played to the composer’s strengths as a performer, but they are strongly rooted in a sonata-form structure which contrasts a pressing and vivacious first theme with the more tripping, light-hearted character of the second. The concluding Rondos tend to be the highlight, alternating some surprisingly passionate and even stormy episodes with the kind of unpretentious folk-like theme that Schubert would go on to perfect. This is the second in a projected eight-album series to be published by Brilliant Classics, surveying the complete keyboard sonatas of Dussek. The series was launched in fine style by the Dutch fortepianist Bart van Oort, and it is attracting much critical attention which this addition to the series is sure to share. Born in 1972, Piet Kuijken has been professor of piano and fortepiano at the Royal Conservatoire in Brussels since 2002 and is a guest professor for the fortepiano at the Royal Conservatoire in Antwerp.
Tracklist 10 tracks
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1 I. Adagio maestoso - Presto 06:04
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I. Adagio maestoso - Presto
- Duration
- 06:04
- Composer
- Jan Ladislav Dussek
- Performer
- Piet Kuijken
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2 II. Larghetto 02:39
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II. Larghetto
- Duration
- 02:39
- Composer
- Jan Ladislav Dussek
- Performer
- Piet Kuijken
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3 III. Rondo: Allegremente 03:30
- Track
- 3
- Title
- III. Rondo: Allegremente
- Duration
- 03:30
- Composer
- Jan Ladislav Dussek
- Performer
- Piet Kuijken
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4 I. Allegro 07:32
- Track
- 4
- Title
- I. Allegro
- Duration
- 07:32
- Composer
- Jan Ladislav Dussek
- Performer
- Piet Kuijken
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5 II. Andantino ma moderato e con espressione - Allegro ma non troppo 05:53
- Track
- 5
- Title
- II. Andantino ma moderato e con espressione - Allegro ma non troppo
- Duration
- 05:53
- Composer
- Jan Ladislav Dussek
- Performer
- Piet Kuijken
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6 I. Allegro moderato 07:39
- Track
- 6
- Title
- I. Allegro moderato
- Duration
- 07:39
- Composer
- Jan Ladislav Dussek
- Performer
- Piet Kuijken
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7 II. Andante quasi larghetto 02:27
- Track
- 7
- Title
- II. Andante quasi larghetto
- Duration
- 02:27
- Composer
- Jan Ladislav Dussek
- Performer
- Piet Kuijken
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8 III. Rondo: Allegretto 03:54
- Track
- 8
- Title
- III. Rondo: Allegretto
- Duration
- 03:54
- Composer
- Jan Ladislav Dussek
- Performer
- Piet Kuijken
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9 I. Allegro con spirito 07:37
- Track
- 9
- Title
- I. Allegro con spirito
- Duration
- 07:37
- Composer
- Jan Ladislav Dussek
- Performer
- Piet Kuijken
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10 II. Rondo: Andantino espressivo, ma con moto 07:16
- Track
- 10
- Title
- II. Rondo: Andantino espressivo, ma con moto
- Duration
- 07:16
- Composer
- Jan Ladislav Dussek
- Performer
- Piet Kuijken