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Moscheles: Etudes, Op. 70 / Bolla
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Moscheles: Etudes, Op. 70 / Bolla

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Composer
Ignaz Moscheles
Artist
Michele Bolla
Format
CD
Label
Piano Classics
Released
Nov 18, 2022
Catalog #
PCL10231
UPC
5029365102315

About

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.

Tracklist 28 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Allegro moderato (1819 Conrad Graf piano) 02:07
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Allegro moderato (1819 Conrad Graf piano)
    Duration
    02:07
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  2. 2 No. 2. Allegro energico (1819 Conrad Graf piano) 01:39
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Allegro energico (1819 Conrad Graf piano)
    Duration
    01:39
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  3. 3 No. 3. Allegro brillante (1819 Conrad Graf piano) 02:33
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Allegro brillante (1819 Conrad Graf piano)
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  4. 4 No. 4. Lentamente con tranquilezza (1819 Conrad Graf piano) 02:57
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. Lentamente con tranquilezza (1819 Conrad Graf piano)
    Duration
    02:57
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  5. 5 No. 5. Allegretto agitato con passione (1819 Conrad Graf piano) 02:26
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. Allegretto agitato con passione (1819 Conrad Graf piano)
    Duration
    02:26
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  6. 6 No. 6. Allegro giocoso (1819 Conrad Graf piano) 02:25
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. Allegro giocoso (1819 Conrad Graf piano)
    Duration
    02:25
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  7. 7 No. 7. Allegro energico non troppo presto (1819 Conrad Graf piano) 02:36
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 7. Allegro energico non troppo presto (1819 Conrad Graf piano)
    Duration
    02:36
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  8. 8 No. 8. Allegro agitato (1819 Conrad Graf piano) 02:23
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 8. Allegro agitato (1819 Conrad Graf piano)
    Duration
    02:23
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  9. 9 No. 9. Cantabile moderato ed espressivo (1819 Conrad Graf piano) 03:24
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 9. Cantabile moderato ed espressivo (1819 Conrad Graf piano)
    Duration
    03:24
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  10. 10 No. 10. Andantino (1819 Conrad Graf piano) 02:38
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 10. Andantino (1819 Conrad Graf piano)
    Duration
    02:38
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  11. 11 No. 11. Allegro maestoso e patetico (1819 Conrad Graf piano) 01:57
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 11. Allegro maestoso e patetico (1819 Conrad Graf piano)
    Duration
    01:57
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  12. 12 No. 12. Agitato (1819 Conrad Graf piano) 02:26
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 12. Agitato (1819 Conrad Graf piano)
    Duration
    02:26
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  13. 13 No. 13. Allegro brillante (1844 Erard piano) 02:08
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 13. Allegro brillante (1844 Erard piano)
    Duration
    02:08
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  14. 14 No. 14. Allegro maestoso (1844 Erard piano) 02:05
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 14. Allegro maestoso (1844 Erard piano)
    Duration
    02:05
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  15. 15 No. 15. Allegro giocoso (1844 Erard piano) 01:55
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 15. Allegro giocoso (1844 Erard piano)
    Duration
    01:55
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  16. 16 No. 16. Adagio ma non troppo (1844 Erard piano) 03:11
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 16. Adagio ma non troppo (1844 Erard piano)
    Duration
    03:11
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  17. 17 No. 17. Andantino (1844 Erard piano) 02:45
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 17. Andantino (1844 Erard piano)
    Duration
    02:45
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  18. 18 No. 18. Allegro con brio (1844 Erard piano) 01:34
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 18. Allegro con brio (1844 Erard piano)
    Duration
    01:34
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  19. 19 No. 19. Vivace (1844 Erard piano) 01:45
    Track
    19
    Title
    No. 19. Vivace (1844 Erard piano)
    Duration
    01:45
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  20. 20 No. 20. Adagio con molto espressione (1844 Erard piano) 05:26
    Track
    20
    Title
    No. 20. Adagio con molto espressione (1844 Erard piano)
    Duration
    05:26
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  21. 21 No. 21. Allegro moderato (1844 Erard piano) 03:13
    Track
    21
    Title
    No. 21. Allegro moderato (1844 Erard piano)
    Duration
    03:13
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  22. 22 No. 22. Allegro (1844 Erard piano) 01:35
    Track
    22
    Title
    No. 22. Allegro (1844 Erard piano)
    Duration
    01:35
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  23. 23 No. 23. Allegro marcato (1844 Erard piano) 03:52
    Track
    23
    Title
    No. 23. Allegro marcato (1844 Erard piano)
    Duration
    03:52
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  24. 24 No. 24. Preludium: Allegro comodo (1844 Erard piano) 01:59
    Track
    24
    Title
    No. 24. Preludium: Allegro comodo (1844 Erard piano)
    Duration
    01:59
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  25. 25 No. 24. Fugue: Allegro moderato (1844 Erard piano) 04:56
    Track
    25
    Title
    No. 24. Fugue: Allegro moderato (1844 Erard piano)
    Duration
    04:56
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  26. 26 No. 9. Cantabile moderato ed espressivo (1844 Erard piano) 03:19
    Track
    26
    Title
    No. 9. Cantabile moderato ed espressivo (1844 Erard piano)
    Duration
    03:19
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  27. 27 No. 10. Andantino (1844 Erard piano) 02:34
    Track
    27
    Title
    No. 10. Andantino (1844 Erard piano)
    Duration
    02:34
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla
  28. 28 No. 12. Agitato (1844 Erard piano) 02:16
    Track
    28
    Title
    No. 12. Agitato (1844 Erard piano)
    Duration
    02:16
    Composer
    Ignaz Moscheles
    Performer
    Michele Bolla