Ashley Wass -Klaviersonaten 3+4 -Naxos CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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01. "Piano Sonata No. 3 in G sharp minor: I. Allegro moderato"

02. "Piano Sonata No. 3 in G sharp minor: II. Lento moderato"

03. "Piano Sonata No. 3 in G sharp minor: III. Allegro"

04. "Piano Sonata No. 4 in G major: I. Allegro giusto"

05. "Piano Sonata No. 4 in G major: II. Allegro quasi Andante"

06. "Piano Sonata No. 4 in G major: III. Allegro"

07. "Water Music"

08. "Winter Waters"

09. "Country-Tune"

10. "O Dame get up and bake your pies"

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The two sonatas are balanced on this release by a series of four short works presenting far more than the usual chip off the compositional workbench. Winter Waters is a somber miniature tone poem written during WW I and subtitled "Tragic Landscape." Bax keeps the violence churning beneath a murky, active surface, in a piece that would have made a very effective orchestral work if it were only less pianistic in development. Water Music is actually a selection from Bax's ballet, The Truth about the Russian Dancers, and easily the most memorable thing in a score more notable for it's ability to change mood and direction in a candle's flicker than sustain any musical idea.

? &© 2005 Naxos Rights International Ltd. Made in Canada. 6pp booklet in English. Recorded 22-24 May, 2004 at Potton Hall, Suffolk, UK. Title is ?Piano Sonatas Nos. 3 and 4? on the spine & booklet cover, but ?Piano Works ? 2? on the CD & tray inlay. Publishers by track: 1-6, 10 ? Chappell & Co. 7, 9 ? Murdoch & Murdoch (now Chappell) 8 ? J. W. Chester Ltd. Cover picture: ?Scarborough? by John William Inchbold (1830-88) (© Leeds Museums & Galleries (City Art Gallery) UK / www.bridgeman.co.uk)

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8557592

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