Eggner Trio - Kaleidoskop - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Halina Krzyzanowska was a Polish pianist and composer. She studied the piano at the Paris Conservatoire with Félix Le Couppey and at the age of 17 won the prix d'honneur. Then she studied counterpoint and composition with Andrès and Ernest Guiraud. She performed throughout Europe, though mainly in France and Poland, and in 1896 was made officier of the Académie de France. In 1900 she was appointed professor of piano at Rennes conservatory. Greatly influenced by Saint-Saëns, Krzyzanowska composed a symphony, a Marche héroïque for orchestra, a Fantasy for piano and orchestra, a string quartet and other chamber works, many solo piano works (including two sonatas, programmatic works and pieces in dance forms), settings of French and Polish poems, incidental music to S. Duchinska's play Jasyr ('Tatar Captivity'), a one-act opera Magdusia (to a libretto by H. Swiejkowski, composed before 1894) and an oratorio. Unfortunately, her works are today largely unknown. This album featuring the Camerata Vistula String Quartet aims to change that, and presents a program of her chamber music. Album Tracks 1. Sonata f-moll na fortepian i wiolonczele Op. 47~Allegro con fuoco 2. Sonata f-moll na fortepian i wiolonczele Op. 47~Intermezzo. Andantino 3. Sonata f-moll na fortepian i wiolonczele Op. 47~Finale. Allegro vivace 4. Sonata e-moll na skrzypce i fortepian Op. 28~Allegro con fuoco 5. Sonata e-moll na skrzypce i fortepian Op. 28~Andante 6. Sonata e-moll na skrzypce i fortepian Op. 28~Allegro non troppo 7. Kwartet smyczkowy A-dur Op. 44~Allegro commodo 8. Kwartet smyczkowy A-dur Op. 44~Andante 9. Kwartet smyczkowy A-dur Op. 44~Allegro vivace

The first and second Viennese school is the focus of Karim Said's third album for Rubicon. The music spans just over a century, but in that time, two composers who changed the course of music - Beethoven and Schoenberg flourished. Schoenberg's music is no longer 'modern'. It is over 100 years old. It has influences of jazz and the waltz. Just over a century earlier, Beethoven's 3rd Symphony, Eroica pushed the boundaries of the classical symphony to breaking point and ushered in a new age. Beethoven's Eroica Variations can still shock and sound a world away from Mozart and his Vienna. In many ways these variations have an affinity with 20th century piano writing. Schoenberg had turned away from late romanticism and large-scale compositions. His works here are extreme in their brevity and concentration, something his greatest pupil Webern was to develop further in his set of extremely dissonant and terse Variations. Album Tracks 1. Piano Sonata No. 12 in F K. 332~I. Allegro 2. Piano Sonata No. 12 in F K. 332~II. Adagio 3. Piano Sonata No. 12 in F K. 332~III. Allegro assai 4. Pieces (2) for piano, Op. 33~Piano Piece Op. 33a 5. Pieces (2) for piano, Op. 33~Piano Piece Op. 33b 6. Variations for Piano Op. 27~I. Sehr mäßig 7. Variations for Piano Op. 27~II. Sehr schnell 8. Variations for Piano Op. 27~III. Ruhig, fließend 9. Five Piano Pieces Op. 23~I. Sehr langsam 10. Five Piano Pieces Op. 23~II. Sehr rasch 11. Five Piano Pieces Op. 23~III. Langsam 12. Five Piano Pieces Op. 23~IV. Schwungvoll 13. Five Piano Pieces Op. 23~V. Walzer 14. 15 Variations and Fugue in E flat Op. 33 'Eroica'~Introduzione col Basso del Tema. Allegretto vivace 15. 15 Variations and Fugue in E flat Op. 33 'Eroica'~Tema 16. 15 Variations and Fugue in E flat Op. 33 'Eroica'~Var. I 17. 15 Variations and Fugue in E flat Op. 33 'Eroica'~Var. II 18. 15 Variations and F

Eggner Trio - Klaviertrios C-Dur/G [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/28/2013