Vladimir Stoupel -Klaviersonaten -Cavi-Music CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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Disc 01
Sonate für Klavier Nr. 1 c-moll

01. "1. Grave e maestoso"

02. "2. Lento con espressione"

03. "3. Scherzo: Presto"

04. "4. Finale: Grave - Allegro energico"
Sonate für Klavier Nr. 3 op. 20

05. "1. Langsam"

06. "2. Scherzo: Presto"

07. "3. Fuge: Andante con moto"

08. "4. Presto"

Disc 02
Sonate für Klavier Nr. 1 op. 12 (Auszug)

01. "Allegro"
Sonate für Klavier Nr. 2 h-moll op. 61

02. "1. Allegretto"

03. "2. Largo"

04. "3. Moderato"

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.. Piano Sonatas

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The Sonata No. 3 by Karol Rathaus is a World Premiere Recording. Vladimir Stoupel is regarded as one of the most competent pianists of Russian music. Karol Rathaus has grown up as one of the most promising Russian composers in the first half of the 20c, but Shostakovich and Rathaus are contemporaries with very different biographies. - .. PIANO SONATAS

Although Karol Rathaus (1895-1954) and Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) were contemporaries, they could hardly have led more different lives. Both biographies nevertheless exemplify the 20th century with it's catastrophes, persecutions and destruction, and it is thus worthwhile to feature their music together in the same programme. Karol Rathaus as one of Franz Schreker's favorite students, he followed Schreker to the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, where he passed the entrance exam with flying colors with his First Sonata for Piano in C Minor, op. 2 (1920). Unlike the 3rd Sonata, the 1st Sonata still follows conventional, post-Romantic paths. In 1927, Rathaus wrote the 3rd Piano Sonata. The music is freely tonal Rathaus achieves an almost boundless improvisational freedom. This sonata sounds to me like a portrait of the 1920s, describing the moods and turbulences of a big city (Berlin?). In December 1926, 20-year-old Dmitrij Shostakovich presented his 1st Piano Sonata, op. 12. On 6 June 1943, in the midst of World War II, Shostakovich premiered his 2nd Piano Sonata op. 61.

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AVI8553481

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