CZERNY: Bel Canto Concertante; Virtuoso Variations for Piano and Orchestra

English Chamber Orchestra;
Tuck, Rosemary;
Bonynge, Richard;

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Carl Czerny is remembered as a pupil and friend of Beethoven and as a composer of numerous piano studies, but during his lifetime he was known for an enormous number of brilliant concert works, most of which are completely unknown to today's audiences and performers. Inspired by the most famous and attractive themes of bel canto operas, which were very popular in their time and are still performed today, these variations allow the soloist to express himself to the full and are an important contribution to the great pianist-composer tradition.

Carl Czerny is remembered as a pupil and friend of Beethoven and the composer of numerous piano studies, but in his lifetime he was renowned for a prodigious output of brilliant concert works, most of which remain entirely unknown to present-day audiences and performers. Inspired by the most famous and attractive themes from Bel Canto operas which were hugely popular in their time and are still performed today, these sets of variations give full rein to the soloist and are a major contribution to the great pianist-composer tradition.

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

24-02-2015

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