Jen Jand - Piano Sonatas Opp 55 & 88 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Alan Parsons Project I Robot, widely regarded as one of the greatest concept albums of all time, is re-issued in a variety of different formats including a 180gm classic black vinyl, half-speed remastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road studios.The Alan Parsons Project second studio album was originally released in July 1977, draws conceptually on author Isaac Asimov's science fiction Robot stories, exploring philosophical themes regarding artificial intelligence. The album was a worldwide hit selling in excess of two million copies, achieving platinum and gold status in numerous countries. Like other Alan Parsons Project albums, there were a variety of different lead vocalists employed including Steve Harley, Allan Clarke, Lenny Zakatek, Peter Straker, Jack Harris and Jaki Whitren. Plus, a selection of session musicians such as guitarist Ian Bairnson and drummer Stuart Tosh with arrangements by Andrew Powell.For most APP albums Eric Woolfson had duplicate analogue tapes run on a second master machine, tapes that were hardly played. These vinyl formats were cut from a high-resolution archive transfer made from rarely played masters. About The Alan Parsons ProjectThe Alan Parsons Project was a progressive rock music entity comprised ofengineer/ producer Alan Parsons and songwriter, musician and manager EricWoolfson. They released 10 concept albums which focused on subject matter suchas science fiction, supernatural, literary and sociological themes between 1976 -1987 and have sold in excess of 55 million albums world-wide. - 180gm heavyweight classic black vinyl - Featuring a half-speed remaster by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios- Insert contains a sleevenote featuring quotes from Eric Woolfson Album Tracks 1. I Robot 2. I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You 3. Some Other Time 4. Breakdown 5. Don't Let It Show 6. The Voice 7. Nucleus 8. Day After Da

The Hungarian pianist has won a number of piano competitions in Hungary and abroad, including first prize in the 1973 Hungarian Piano Concours and first prize in the chamber music category at the Sydney International Piano Competition in 1977. He has recorded for Naxos all the piano concertos and sonatas of Mozart. Other recordings for Naxos include the concertos of Grieg and Schumann as well as Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and the complete piano sonatas of Haydn and Beethoven, the complete piano music of Bartók, and a wide repertoire of chamber music. His critically acclaimed recordings of the Complete Haydn Piano Sonatas are available in a 10-CD Box Set, released to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's death. Album Tracks 1. Allegro 2. Andantino 3. Scherzo Allegro Vivace 4. Rondo Allegretto 5. Moderato 6. Andante

Schubert's Sonata in A major, D. 664, published posthumously in 1829 as Opus 120, has been plausibly dated to 1819, the year of the Trout Quintet. In the summer of that year Schubert had accompanied Vogl on his annual excursion to his native Steyr. There his acquaintance with Sylvester Paumgartner led to the composition of the quintet, making use of Schubert's song Die Forelle (The Trout), that Paumgartner much admired. It has been suggested that the Sonata in A major, which reflects much the same mood of delight in the Styrian countryside, is to be identified with a sonata written for the pianist Josefine von Koller, whom he met on the occasion of this first visit to Steyr. The first movement, with it's song-like principal theme, breathes the air of the country, it's serenity only briefly broken in the central development. The D major andante opens with some harmonic ambiguity, implicit in the principal theme, but any passing sadness is dispelled in the final Allegro. The so-called Wanderer Fantasia, the Fantasia in C major, Opus 15, D. 760, was written in November 1822 and published the following year. It was dedicated to Emmanuel, Edler von Liebenberg de Zsettin, a well-to-do pupil of Mozart's pupil Hummel. The popular name of the Fantasia, The Wanderer, is taken from the 1816 song of that name, a setting of words by Schmidt von Lübeck, the theme of which is varied in the slow movement of the Fantasia, a massive four-movement structure. The first movement of the Fantasia starts with a dactylic rhythmic figure, found so often in the music of Schubert. A subsidiary thematic element derived from this appears in the unexpected key of E major, with a further derivative in B flat, before still remoter keys are explored. The movement closes after preparing the new key of C sharp minor for the following adagio and the song-theme from which the Fantasia has taken it's name.