Moscheles: Etudes, Op. 70 / Bolla

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Piano Classics
Release Date
November 18, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Ignaz Moscheles
    • PERFORMER
      Michele Bolla
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 18, 2022
    • UPC
      5029365102315
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PCL10231
    • LABEL
      Piano Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Allegro moderato (1819 Conrad Graf piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    2. No. 2. Allegro energico (1819 Conrad Graf piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    3. No. 3. Allegro brillante (1819 Conrad Graf piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    4. No. 4. Lentamente con tranquilezza (1819 Conrad Graf piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    5. No. 5. Allegretto agitato con passione (1819 Conrad Graf piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    6. No. 6. Allegro giocoso (1819 Conrad Graf piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    7. No. 7. Allegro energico non troppo presto (1819 Conrad Graf piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    8. No. 8. Allegro agitato (1819 Conrad Graf piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    9. No. 9. Cantabile moderato ed espressivo (1819 Conrad Graf piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    10. No. 10. Andantino (1819 Conrad Graf piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    11. No. 11. Allegro maestoso e patetico (1819 Conrad Graf piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    12. No. 12. Agitato (1819 Conrad Graf piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    13. No. 13. Allegro brillante (1844 Erard piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    14. No. 14. Allegro maestoso (1844 Erard piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    15. No. 15. Allegro giocoso (1844 Erard piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    16. No. 16. Adagio ma non troppo (1844 Erard piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    17. No. 17. Andantino (1844 Erard piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    18. No. 18. Allegro con brio (1844 Erard piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    19. No. 19. Vivace (1844 Erard piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    20. No. 20. Adagio con molto espressione (1844 Erard piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    21. No. 21. Allegro moderato (1844 Erard piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    22. No. 22. Allegro (1844 Erard piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    23. No. 23. Allegro marcato (1844 Erard piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    24. No. 24. Preludium: Allegro comodo (1844 Erard piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    25. No. 24. Fugue: Allegro moderato (1844 Erard piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    26. No. 9. Cantabile moderato ed espressivo (1844 Erard piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    27. No. 10. Andantino (1844 Erard piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla

    28. No. 12. Agitato (1844 Erard piano)

      Composer: Ignaz Moscheles

      Performer: Michele Bolla


As stringent a critic of his fellow composers as he was of himself, Mendelssohn wrote in unusually effusive terms about the Etudes Op. 70 when Moscheles sent them to him in 1829. ‘Your splendid Etudes are the best pieces of music that I have heard for a long time, as instructive and useful for the musician as they are gratifying for the listener. Might you be prepared to publish a third volume? You would be rendering a service to all music lovers.’ The Op. 70 Etudes have attracted previous recordings, complete and in part, but they are presented here for the first time on instruments of the composer’s time – an 1844 Erard and a modern copy of an 1819 Graf model – thus releasing and intensifying the color and playfulness of works which transcend their didactic origins. Some of technical and tonal innovations in these studies represented a creative stimulus for composers including Schumann, Liszt and Chopin. Schumann dedicated his ambitious Sonata Op. 14 to Moscheles, and believed that the Op. 70 Etudes made his friend one of the greatest composers of piano music of the age. Surely the greatest piano teacher of his age – perhaps the greatest ever – Chopin religiously used the Op. 70 Etudes for instruction as a kind of New Testament to set alongside Bach and Beethoven. Moreover, they clearly made a considerable impact on his own Etudes, Op. 10 and Op. 25. No. 23 of Moscheles’s set is the only explicitly programmatic one, cast as ‘a battle among demons’, but there is no shortage of immediate drama and theatre throughout the set, especially in the hands of Michele Bolla.