Triumph Of The Piano - Keyboard Classics From Bach To Bartok

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Label
Sony Masterworks
Release Date
January 18, 2000
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      NPR
    • PERFORMER
      Npr
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 18, 2000
    • UPC
      074646099322
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SMK60993
    • LABEL
      Sony Masterworks
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Instrumental
    Works ⌄

    1. Pieces de clavecin, Book 2: 6th Ordre in B-Flat Major: Les Baricades misterieuses (vivement)

      Composer: François Couperin

      Performer: Anthony Newman

    2. 2-Part Inventions, BWV 772-786: Invention No. 1 in C Major, BWV 772

      Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

      Performer: Gustav Leonhardt

    3. Keyboard Sonata in G Major, K.13/L.486/P.69

      Composer: Domenico Scarlatti

      Performer: Glenn Gould

    4. Piano Sonata No. 16 in C Major, K. 545, "Sonata facile": I. Allegro

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Performer: Jos van Immerseel

    5. Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467, "Elvira Madigan": II. Andante

      Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra

      Performer: Robert Casadesus

      Conductor: George Szell

    6. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2, "Moonlight": I. Adagio sostenuto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Rudolf Serkin

    7. 4 Impromptus, Op. 90, D. 899: No. 2 in E-Flat Major

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Nelson Freire

    8. Schubert - Schwanengesang, S560/R245: No. 10. Liebesbotschaft

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Arcadi Volodos

    9. Album fur die Jugend (Album for the Young), Op. 68, Part I: Fur Kleinere: No. 10. Frohlicher Landmann, von der Arbeit zuruckkehrend

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Philippe Entremont

    10. Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Words), Book 6, Op. 67: No. 34 in C Major, Op. 67, No. 4, MWV U182, "Spinnerlied"

      Composer: Felix Mendelssohn

      Performer: Rudolf Serkin

    11. Waltz No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 34, No. 2, "Valse brillante"

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Emanuel Ax

    12. Mazurka No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 6, No. 2

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Emanuel Ax

    13. Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major, S124/R455: Allegro maestoso

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Emanuel Ax

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    14. 6 Etudes d'execution transcendante d'apres Paganini, S140/R3a: No. 3 in A-Flat Minor, "La campanella"

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: André Watts

    15. 4 Piano Pieces, Op. 119: No. 1. Intermezzo in B Minor

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Rudolf Serkin

    16. 21 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No. 5 in F-Sharp Minor (version for piano 4 hands)

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Yaara Tal, Andreas Groethuysen

    17. Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3: No. 2. Prelude in C-Sharp Minor

      Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff

      Performer: Philippe Entremont

    18. Children's Corner: VI. Golliwogg's Cake-Walk

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Paul Crossley

    19. 3 Movements from Petrushka: No. 1. Danse russe (Russian Dance)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Performer: Yefim Bronfman

    20. Piano Concerto No. 2, BB 101: I. Allegro

      Composer: Béla Bartók

      Ensemble: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Yefim Bronfman

      Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen

    21. Maple Leaf Rag (version for piano)

      Composer: Scott Joplin

      Performer: Eugene List


THE TRIUMPH OF THE PIANO is a release from National Public Radio that briefly covers the history of piano music through music from "Bach to Bartok." With so many performances to select from for such a collection, it's no doubt that the choices are outstanding. Beginning with two pieces for the harpsichord by Couperin and Bach respectively, the piano takes over through pieces of the classical and romantic eras, and twentieth century, with something by almost every piano composer of importance.
The performer list is equally impressive on this intelligent collection: Emmanuel Ax, André Watts, Glenn Gould, and more. Particular standouts include Brahms' Intermezzo Op. 119 played by Rudolf Serkin in a 1979 recording, the second movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 from a 1961 recording by Robert Casadesus, and "Liebesbotschaft" by Schubert/Liszt played by Arcadi Volodos. In other words, this is not only a short history of the piano repertoire, but of pianists who have recorded as well. Aficionados of the piano will find this to be an invaluable recording in its unique collection of pieces, as well as its fantastic assembly of artistry on one disc.