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Leschetizky: Morceaux pour piano / Bigger
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Leschetizky: Morceaux pour piano / Bigger

$21.99

Details

Composer
LESCHETIZKY, THEODOR
Artist
Tobias Bigger
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Aug 07, 2020
Catalog #
BIS-2518
UPC
7318599925189

About

Theodor Leschetizky, born 1830, was a pianist and an internationally renowned and sought-after mentor to a large number of pianists. Although Leschetitzky was also active as a composer, his music is largely ignored nowadays, and in his liner notes Tobias Bigger relates how he came across it indirectly, through an interest in Ignaz Friedman, one of Leschetizky’s most famous students. Much of Leschetitzky’s production consists of character pieces for piano, and a closer study convinced Bigger of the particular qualities of many of them. He was particularly impressed by the fact that even though they convey Leschetitzky’s own joy in masterful piano playing and place considerable demands on the performer, there are no displays of empty keyboard acrobatics. For his first disc on BIS, Bigger has selected pieces from Leschetitzky’s later production, and primarily those that are not readily available in recorded form.

REVIEW:

All of these pieces are quite fetching, some are arrestingly beautiful, and it’s Tobias Bigger’s artistry that makes them so. There’s much to admire in Bigger’s playing of these Leschetizky pieces: pellucid tone, sure-fingered technique, and an obvious relish for music that not many others have found the taste or time for. Pianists, in particular, may take special interest in this release, but appreciating Leschetizky’s music is not contingent on your ability to play the piano. Bigger will do that for you, and he does it really well.

– Fanfare

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Menuetto capriccioso 07:22
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Menuetto capriccioso
    Duration
    07:22
    Composer
    Theodor Leschetizky
    Performer
    Tobias Bigger
  2. 2 No. 2. Mazurka-Impromptu 07:08
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Mazurka-Impromptu
    Duration
    07:08
    Composer
    Theodor Leschetizky
    Performer
    Tobias Bigger
  3. 3 No. 1. Aria 04:00
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 1. Aria
    Duration
    04:00
    Composer
    Theodor Leschetizky
    Performer
    Tobias Bigger
  4. 4 No. 2. Gigue (Canon à deux voix) 02:11
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 2. Gigue (Canon à deux voix)
    Duration
    02:11
    Composer
    Theodor Leschetizky
    Performer
    Tobias Bigger
  5. 5 No. 3. Humoresque 02:12
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 3. Humoresque
    Duration
    02:12
    Composer
    Theodor Leschetizky
    Performer
    Tobias Bigger
  6. 6 No. 4. La Source (Étude) 03:12
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 4. La Source (Étude)
    Duration
    03:12
    Composer
    Theodor Leschetizky
    Performer
    Tobias Bigger
  7. 7 No. 1. Serenata 05:18
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 1. Serenata
    Duration
    05:18
    Composer
    Theodor Leschetizky
    Performer
    Tobias Bigger
  8. 8 No. 2. La Piccola (Étude) 02:08
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 2. La Piccola (Étude)
    Duration
    02:08
    Composer
    Theodor Leschetizky
    Performer
    Tobias Bigger
  9. 9 No. 1. Prélude 02:59
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 1. Prélude
    Duration
    02:59
    Composer
    Theodor Leschetizky
    Performer
    Tobias Bigger
  10. 10 No. 2. Gigue all' antica 01:57
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 2. Gigue all' antica
    Duration
    01:57
    Composer
    Theodor Leschetizky
    Performer
    Tobias Bigger
  11. 11 No. 3. Humoresque 04:22
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 3. Humoresque
    Duration
    04:22
    Composer
    Theodor Leschetizky
    Performer
    Tobias Bigger
  12. 12 No. 4. Intermezzo en octaves 01:55
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 4. Intermezzo en octaves
    Duration
    01:55
    Composer
    Theodor Leschetizky
    Performer
    Tobias Bigger
  13. 13 No. 1. Nocturne 06:12
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 1. Nocturne
    Duration
    06:12
    Composer
    Theodor Leschetizky
    Performer
    Tobias Bigger
  14. 14 No. 2. Scherzo 06:24
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 2. Scherzo
    Duration
    06:24
    Composer
    Theodor Leschetizky
    Performer
    Tobias Bigger