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Kozeluch: Sonatas for Fortepiano 4-Hands / Gregoletto, Bartoccini
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Kozeluch: Sonatas for Fortepiano 4-Hands / Gregoletto, Bartoccini

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Details

Composer
Leopold Kozeluch
Artist
Ilario Gregoletto, Marius Bartoccini
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Feb 11, 2022
Catalog #
BRI96025
UPC
5028421960258

About

The recent Kozeluch revival, featuring recordings of his solo, chamber and orchestral music, has demonstrated his status as one of the most important figures in the whole of Viennese Classicism. This double album dedicated to Kozeluch’s works for fortepiano four-hands provides further confirmation of his compositional mastery, on a level bearing comparison with his contemporaries.

Leopold Antoniìn Kozeluch was born on 26 June 1747 in Velvary, to the north-west of Prague. He began his musical career in 1771 as a composer of ballet music and in 1778 decided to abandon the study of the law and to move to Vienna, where in a short time he was able to establish himself as a composer and performer thanks to his indisputable musical qualities and his ability to cultivate good relations to sustain and expand his activities. Building upon stylistic influences inherited from his teacher Frantisek Xaver Dusek (the first Czech composer to approach the four-hands piano genre in a manner neither frivolous nor didactic), Kozeluch committed himself to composing for keyboard duo, raising its aesthetic and technical level and contributing to the evolution of a concert hall repertoire worthy of the same attention as solo sonatas. The large-scale works were recorded on an original fortepiano constructed in Vienna by Johann Schantz in the early years of the 19th century and therefore contemporary with Kozeluch. The Duo Op.19 and Trio Sonatas Op.12 Nos. 1 and 2, with their domestic character, were recorded on the Longman & Broderip square piano, a type of instrument extremely popular in the households of the day and therefore appropriate for Hausmusik.

Tracklist 21 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro molto 07:30
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro molto
    Duration
    07:30
    Composer
    Leopold Koželuch
    Performer
    Ilario Gregoletto, Marius Bartoccini
  2. 2 II. Adagio 05:03
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Adagio
    Duration
    05:03
    Composer
    Leopold Koželuch
    Performer
    Ilario Gregoletto, Marius Bartoccini
  3. 3 III. Menuetto 03:40
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Menuetto
    Duration
    03:40
    Composer
    Leopold Koželuch
    Performer
    Ilario Gregoletto, Marius Bartoccini
  4. 4 IV. Rondó 02:52
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Rondó
    Duration
    02:52
    Composer
    Leopold Koželuch
    Performer
    Ilario Gregoletto, Marius Bartoccini
  5. 5 I. Adagio 01:43
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Adagio
    Duration
    01:43
    Composer
    Leopold Koželuch
    Performer
    Ilario Gregoletto, Marius Bartoccini
  6. 6 II. Allegro 09:57
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Allegro
    Duration
    09:57
    Composer
    Leopold Koželuch
    Performer
    Ilario Gregoletto, Marius Bartoccini
  7. 7 III. Adagio 05:34
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Adagio
    Duration
    05:34
    Composer
    Leopold Koželuch
    Performer
    Ilario Gregoletto, Marius Bartoccini
  8. 8 IV. Rondeau. Allegro 03:49
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Rondeau. Allegro
    Duration
    03:49
    Composer
    Leopold Koželuch
    Performer
    Ilario Gregoletto, Marius Bartoccini
  9. 9 I. Adagio 01:27
    Track
    9
    Title
    I. Adagio
    Duration
    01:27
    Composer
    Leopold Koželuch
    Performer
    Ilario Gregoletto, Marius Bartoccini
  10. 10 II. Allegro 07:20
    Track
    10
    Title
    II. Allegro
    Duration
    07:20
    Composer
    Leopold Koželuch
    Performer
    Ilario Gregoletto, Marius Bartoccini
  11. 11 III. Rondo: Allegro 03:35
    Track
    11
    Title
    III. Rondo: Allegro
    Duration
    03:35
    Composer
    Leopold Koželuch
    Performer
    Ilario Gregoletto, Marius Bartoccini
  12. 12 I. Adagio 03:13
    Track
    12
    Title
    I. Adagio
    Duration
    03:13
    Composer
    Leopold Koželuch
    Performer
    Ilario Gregoletto, Marius Bartoccini
  13. 13 II. Allegro 08:35
    Track
    13
    Title
    II. Allegro
    Duration
    08:35
    Composer
    Leopold Koželuch
    Performer
    Ilario Gregoletto, Marius Bartoccini
  14. 14 III. Rondeau: Allegro 04:03
    Track
    14
    Title
    III. Rondeau: Allegro
    Duration
    04:03
    Composer
    Leopold Koželuch
    Performer
    Ilario Gregoletto, Marius Bartoccini
  15. 15 I. Allegro 02:28
    Track
    15
    Title
    I. Allegro
    Duration
    02:28
    Composer
    Leopold Koželuch
    Performer
    Ilario Gregoletto, Marius Bartoccini
  16. 16 II. Andante 01:20
    Track
    16
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    01:20
    Composer
    Leopold Koželuch
    Performer
    Ilario Gregoletto, Marius Bartoccini
  17. 17 III. Presto 01:59
    Track
    17
    Title
    III. Presto
    Duration
    01:59
    Composer
    Leopold Koželuch
    Performer
    Ilario Gregoletto, Marius Bartoccini
  18. 18 I. Allegro vivace 01:51
    Track
    18
    Title
    I. Allegro vivace
    Duration
    01:51
    Composer
    Leopold Koželuch
    Performer
    Ilario Gregoletto, Marius Bartoccini
  19. 19 II. Siciliano. Non troppo Lento 01:29
    Track
    19
    Title
    II. Siciliano. Non troppo Lento
    Duration
    01:29
    Composer
    Leopold Koželuch
    Performer
    Ilario Gregoletto, Marius Bartoccini
  20. 20 III. Rondo 02:07
    Track
    20
    Title
    III. Rondo
    Duration
    02:07
    Composer
    Leopold Koželuch
    Performer
    Ilario Gregoletto, Marius Bartoccini
  21. 21 Harpsichord Sonata in D Major, P. XI: I. Marcia Maestoso - II. Allegro 04:39
    Track
    21
    Title
    Harpsichord Sonata in D Major, P. XI: I. Marcia Maestoso - II. Allegro
    Duration
    04:39
    Composer
    Leopold Koželuch
    Performer
    Ilario Gregoletto, Marius Bartoccini