SCHUBERT: SONATA B FLAT MAJOR D960, 3 PIANO PIECES D946
Nikolaus Lahusen
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Release Date: 03-12-2000
Label: Celestial Harmonies
Catalog Number: 13195-2
Barcode: 13711319521
Musical Style: Classical
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 Klavierstücke (Impromptus) D 946 - Allegro assai [10:33] | 5 | Sonata B Dur / B Flat Major D 960 - Andante sostenuto [10:26] |
| 2 | 3 Klavierstücke (Impromptus) D 946 - Rondo [12:34] | 6 | Sonata B Dur / B Flat Major D 960 - Scherzo [04:10] |
| 3 | 3 Klavierstücke (Impromptus) D 946 - Allegro [05:59] | 7 | Sonata B Dur / B Flat Major D 960 - Allegro ma non troppo [08:44] |
| 4 | Sonata B Dur / B Flat Major D 960 - Molto moderato [20:38] | ||
Description:
A mere three sonatas appeared in print in Schubert's lifetime. Others out of his musical bequest were published a few years after his death by friends and were given posthumous opus numbers. One of these was the monumental Sonata B flat major D 960 which was the last of the posthumous sonatas and as such Schubert's last instrumental composition of all. Schubert made an essential contribution to the piano music of the Romantic period not only with his sonatas but also with his cycles of piano pieces. The Three Piano Pieces D 946 are works of such an intimate, confessional nature emerging in the last year before his death; character pieces which gained increasing popularity in the first three decades of the 19th century at a time when his piano sonatas had begun to lose some of their initial favor with the public. An original Conrad Graf Hammerflügel from the Dutch collection of Edwin Beunk was played by Nikolaus Lahusen on this recording. Built in 1835, this instrument is the like of which would have been played in Schubert's day. The Graf piano is heard on this recording for the first time on CD.
Biography:
Nikolaus Lahusen was born in Bremen in 1960 and grew up in Mexico. His artistic development was supported by Edith Picht-Axenfeld, Christoph Eschenbach and Bruno Leonardo Gelber. Counted among the leading pianists of his generation, Lahusen has given concerts worldwide and has appeared in important concert halls (Philharmonie in Munich, Musikhalle in Hamburg, Beethovenhalle in Bonn, etc.) and with leading orchestras (European Community Chamber Orchestra, Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Nacional de Argentina, etc.). For Celestial Harmonies, he has previously recorded Orff-Schulwerk, Volume 3: Piano Music , The Complete Works of M.K. Ciurlionis, Vols. 1-3, Franz Schubert Sonata B Flat Major D. 960, 3 Klavierstücke D. 946 and Franz Schubert Sonata D Major D. 850, 34 Valses Sentimentales D. 779.
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