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Schubert: Impromptus D. 899; Drei Klavierstucke D. 946; Allegretto in C minor D. 915
Gramola Records

Schubert: Impromptus D. 899; Drei Klavierstucke D. 946; Allegretto in C minor D. 915

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Details

Composer
Franz Schubert
Artist
Ingrid Marsoner
Format
CD
Label
Gramola Records
Released
Jan 12, 2024
Catalog #
GRAM99305
UPC
9003643993051

About

Ingrid Marsoner dedicates her latest recording to Franz Schubert’s late piano works and contrasts the “Four Impromptus D 899” with the more intimate and much less frequently performed “Three Piano Pieces D 946”. The Impromptus D 899 were composed in 1827, around a year before Schubert’s death and close in time to the “Winterreise” D 911. The composer was in a particularly gloomy mood at the time and it was certainly no coincidence that he chose such distant keys as G-flat major for the third piece, in keeping with the eerily moving beauty of these works. The “Three Piano Pieces, D 946” were composed in 1828, the year of Franz Schubert’s death. They were not published during his lifetime and were only discovered and published by Johannes Brahms. At the end of his life, Franz Schubert studied counterpoint intensively and even attended a lesson with Simon Sechter, Vienna’s first music theory teacher. In the middle section of the first piano piece in particular, one can discover a surprising polyphony for the composer. The CD concludes with the Allegretto in C minor D 915, also composed shortly before his death at the age of 31.

Tracklist 8 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1 in C Minor 09:21
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1 in C Minor
    Duration
    09:21
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Ingrid Marsoner
  2. 2 No. 2 in E-Flat Major 04:46
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2 in E-Flat Major
    Duration
    04:46
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Ingrid Marsoner
  3. 3 No. 3 in G-Flat Major 06:02
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3 in G-Flat Major
    Duration
    06:02
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Ingrid Marsoner
  4. 4 No. 4 in A-Flat Major 07:52
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4 in A-Flat Major
    Duration
    07:52
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Ingrid Marsoner
  5. 5 No. 1 in E-Flat Minor 07:46
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 1 in E-Flat Minor
    Duration
    07:46
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Ingrid Marsoner
  6. 6 No. 2 in E-Flat Major 10:22
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 2 in E-Flat Major
    Duration
    10:22
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Ingrid Marsoner
  7. 7 No. 3 in C Major 05:51
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 3 in C Major
    Duration
    05:51
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Ingrid Marsoner
  8. 8 Allegretto in C Minor, D. 915 04:58
    Track
    8
    Title
    Allegretto in C Minor, D. 915
    Duration
    04:58
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Ingrid Marsoner