Kranebitter / Seda Roder - Kranebitter / Seda Roder : Black & White Statements-Austrian Sound of Pno - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Lullaby 2. Allegro Fresco 3. Andante Sostenuto 4. Vivo 5. Mama's Singing 6. The Little Virtuoso 7. Molto Moderato, Improvvisando 8. Un Poco Più Mosso, Ma Sempre Moderato 9. Con Moto, Corrente 10. Moderato 11. Animando. Un Poco Con Moto 12. Con Moto Moderato 13. Con Moto Moderato 14. Con Moto Moderato 15. Fuga 1, a 2 Voci. Allegro Vivo 16. Fuga III, a 3 Voci. Largo Sostenuto 17. Fuga IV, a 3 Voci. Andante Sostenuto 18. Fuga VI, a 2 Voci. Andante 19. Thema. Rubato Quasi Parlando 20. Var. 1 Piu Mosso 21. Var. 2 22. Var. 3 Allegretto Grazioso 23. Var. 4 Poco Allegro 24. Var. 5 Allegro Strepitoso 25. Var. 6 Largo Sostenuto 26. Var 7 Allegro Gaio 27. Var. 8 Vivo 28. Var. 9 Vivo 29. Var. 10 Molto Moderato 30. Var. 11 Presto 31. Var. 12 Rubato Quasi Parlando 32. A Fairy Tale, Please 33. Catch Me! 34. Why Is the Snow Falling? 35. What Is a Forest? 36. Dance with Me 37. Why Are You Crying? 38. Where Is the Brook Flowing? 39. What's in the Lonely Castle? 40. A Bogeyman's There 41. We Saw a Roe Deer 42. The Train Is Moving! 43. Why Is the Sky Blue? 44. I Let a Butterfly Go 45. Must Everybody Die? 46. We've Been to the Circus 47. The Brook and the Breeze 48. What the Brook Told Me 49. The Brook and the Storm

This debut album showcases talented 32-year-old Venetian pianist AlessandroTaverna, whose career began flourishing when he won First Prize in theMinnesota International Piano Competition, Second Prize in the LondonInternational Piano Competition, and Bronze Medal at the Leeds InternationalPiano Competition. On hearing him, the late Lorin Maazel invited him toperform the Prokofiev Third Piano Concerto with the Munich Philharmonicin Vienna's Musikverein last year. Alessandro particularly identifies withRussian composers and made a special study of Medtner's music, which heplays to perfection. Album Tracks 1. Medtner Sonata Reminiscenza 2. Sonata Romantica 3. Sonata Minacciosa

Hans-Peter and Volker Stenzl enable us to experience a historic moment in their live recording from the Ehrbar Saal in Vienna. On two original Ehrbar grand pianos, they play Johannes Brahms' original version of his 4th Symphony, as performed in the eponymous hall for friends of the composer in 1885. This testimony to a fading time is accompanied by another work of irreversible finality, Maurice Ravel's tone poem La Valse. Like no other dance, the waltz, which Ravel shatters to bits and Brahms only hints at in finale, defined the 19th century. A quasi volcanic orchestral dance by one of the best piano duos in the world! Album Tracks 1. Valse - Poème chorégraphique 2. Symphonie Nr. 4 e-Moll Op. 98~Allegro non assai 3. Symphonie Nr. 4 e-Moll Op. 98~Andante moderato 4. Symphonie Nr. 4 e-Moll Op. 98~Presto giocoso 5. Symphonie Nr. 4 e-Moll Op. 98~Allegro energico e passionato