Stenhammar: Piano Music / Scafarella

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Label
Piano Classics
Release Date
June 25, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      STENHAMMAR, WILHELM
    • PERFORMER
      Paolo Scafarella
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 25, 2021
    • UPC
      5029365102254
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PCL10225
    • LABEL
      Piano Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Molto appasionato

      Composer: Wilhelm Stenhammar

      Performer: Paolo Scafarella

    2. No. 2. Dolce scherzando

      Composer: Wilhelm Stenhammar

      Performer: Paolo Scafarella

    3. No. 3. Molto espressivo e con intimissimo sentimento

      Composer: Wilhelm Stenhammar

      Performer: Paolo Scafarella

    4. No. 1. Tranquillo e soave

      Composer: Wilhelm Stenhammar

      Performer: Paolo Scafarella

    5. No. 2. Poco presto

      Composer: Wilhelm Stenhammar

      Performer: Paolo Scafarella

    6. No. 3. Piano: Non troppo lento

      Composer: Wilhelm Stenhammar

      Performer: Paolo Scafarella

    7. No. 4. Presto agitato

      Composer: Wilhelm Stenhammar

      Performer: Paolo Scafarella

    8. No. 5. Poco allegretto

      Composer: Wilhelm Stenhammar

      Performer: Paolo Scafarella

    9. No. 1. Molto tranquillo, semplice

      Composer: Wilhelm Stenhammar

      Performer: Paolo Scafarella

    10. No. 2. Allegro

      Composer: Wilhelm Stenhammar

      Performer: Paolo Scafarella

    11. No. 3. Polska (en miniature)

      Composer: Wilhelm Stenhammar

      Performer: Paolo Scafarella

    12. I. Allegro vivace e passionato

      Composer: Wilhelm Stenhammar

      Performer: Paolo Scafarella

    13. II. Romanza: Andante quasi adagio

      Composer: Wilhelm Stenhammar

      Performer: Paolo Scafarella

    14. III. Scherzo: Allegro molto

      Composer: Wilhelm Stenhammar

      Performer: Paolo Scafarella

    15. IV. Rondo: Allegrissimo

      Composer: Wilhelm Stenhammar

      Performer: Paolo Scafarella


Carl Stenhammar (1871-1927) trained as a pianist, and Brahms’s epic D minor Concerto held no fears for him. His writing for the instrument is accordingly bold and heroic from the outset, as his G minor Sonata from 1890 demonstrates. Held together by Wagnerian leitmotifs but often drawn into Schumannesque dreaming, the four-movement Sonata wears Austro-German passion on its sleeve, and Brahms continued to be a clear influence on Stenhammar’s piano writing in the three Fantasies Op.11 from 1895, but the harmonies are now clearer and more limpid, in the manner of Chopin but also singing with a more native Swedish or at least Nordic accent. Still more Franco-Russian in idiom are the Three Small Pieces from the same year, in the spirit of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces and Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons, each distilling Stenhammar’s individual melodic style within a minute or two. The high point of his solo piano output – as distinct from the mighty Second Piano Concerto which has found a place on the fringes of the Romantic repertoire – is reached with the Late Summer Nights Op.33, a five-movement cycle of concise tone-pictures which ventures into speculative harmonic realms like Fauré’s late Nocturnes, demanding the most refined of responses from the pianist. The Italian pianist Paolo Scafarella is fast becoming a Stenhammar specialist. He has been engaged to record the concertos with the Orchestra Filarmonica Campana in Pagani, near Naples, and he performs in the major halls of his native country. This release marks his debut on Piano Classics.