Wagner: Complete Piano Works / Dario Bonuccelli

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Release Date
April 30, 2013
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      WAGNER, RICHARD
    • PERFORMER
      Dario Bonuccelli
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 30, 2013
    • UPC
      8007144607616
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      DYN-CDS761
    • LABEL
      Dynamic
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Instrumental
    Works ⌄

    1. Tristan und Isolde: Prelude (version for piano)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Performer: Dario Bonuccelli

    2. Albumblatt in E Major

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Performer: Dario Bonuccelli

    3. Polka in G Major

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Performer: Dario Bonuccelli

    4. Zuricher Vielliebchen-Walzer in E-Flat Major

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Performer: Dario Bonuccelli

    5. Albumblatt in C Major, "In das Album der Furstin Metternich"

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Performer: Dario Bonuccelli

    6. Albumblatt in A-Flat Major, "Ankunft bei den schwarzen Schwane"

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Performer: Dario Bonuccelli

    7. Albumblatt in E-Flat Major

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Performer: Dario Bonuccelli

    8. Polonaise in D Major, Op. 2

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Performer: Dario Bonuccelli, Marco Vincenzi

    9. Polonaise in D Major

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Performer: Dario Bonuccelli

    10. Notenbrief fur Mathilde Wesendonck

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Performer: Dario Bonuccelli

    11. Élégie, WWV 93

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Performer: Dario Bonuccelli

    12. Fantasia in F-Sharp Minor

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Performer: Dario Bonuccelli

    13. Sonate fur das album von Frau M.W. (Sonata for Mathilde Wesendonck)

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Performer: Dario Bonuccelli

    14. I. Allegro con brio

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Performer: Dario Bonuccelli

    15. II. Largetto

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Performer: Dario Bonuccelli

    16. III. Menuetto: Allegro

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Performer: Dario Bonuccelli

    17. IV. Finale: Allegro vivace

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Performer: Dario Bonuccelli

    18. I. Allegro con moto

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Performer: Dario Bonuccelli

    19. II. Adagio molto ed assai espressivo

      Composer: Richard Wagner

    20. III. Maestoso - Allegro

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Performer: Dario Bonuccelli

    21. III. Maestoso: Fugue: Tempo moderato e maestoso

      Composer: Richard Wagner

      Performer: Dario Bonuccelli


There exists a strange, somewhat ambiguous, bond between Wagner and the instrument symbolic of the romantic generation: the piano. Strange because Wagner’s fingers were not very much at ease on a piano keyboard - to the point that in his lifetime this gave rise to a number of hilarious anecdotes about his technical ineptitude.

That notwithstanding, scholars and performers are left to deal with a rather considerable number of piano works by Richard Wagner, among them, several occasional pieces, often quite short, which is interesting, when we consider the general length, instead, of the composer’s lyrical works.

It shouldn’t surprise us that, up to recently, critics and even performers have paid little attention to the works featured here: comparison with Wagner’s operas and the innovation they introduced is, to all appearances, too crushing for them to take an interest in these short pieces conceived for practical purposes and destined for private use. And yet such an approach appears gratuitously defeatist, obscuring an output that can be quite fascinating and which, what is more important, is essential towards understanding the Maestro’s stylistic evolution.

Thanks to Wagner’s piano works, indeed, we are now able to retrace ”from the inside” almost his entire professional path. - Dynamic