L. Berio - Piano Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This product is an authorized manufactured on demand CD-R Album Tracks 1. When the Mountains Fall 2. Back in His Arms Again 3. Think of Me 4. I Have Been There 5. Kyrie Eleison 6. The Holy One 7. Back to You 8. Faith, Hope and Love 9. The Time of My Life 10. We Are Calling You

Following the first installment of his three-part Schubert series, the Florentine pianist Andrea Lucchesini now approaches the sanctum of Schubert's keyboard music the Piano Sonata in B-flat major D. 960, composed a few weeks before the composer's untimely death in November 1828. Over the last two decades, the 54-year-old pianist, who studied with Maria Tipo for many years, has increasingly devoted himself to chamber music and has also recorded the complete Beethoven sonatas. Both experiences influence his recording of Schubert's late work for the piano. Here, too, Lucchesini reveals a cosmos of colors and he revisits the tempi, emphasizing contrasts and dramatic curves. Chamber music has inspired him to develop a InchconversationalInch style - often there is a sense of dialogue, announcement or even lively communication. Amongst the last three piano sonatas, the Sonata in B-flat major adopts a lyrical tone. But above all, Schubert takes time to develop his musical themes - Robert Schumann was astounded by what he called the Inchheavenly lengthsInch (and he intended to emphasize the InchheavenlyInch aspect). But there are also abysses that were probably as inexplicable for contemporary listeners as they are for us today sudden stops, trills in the lowest registers, the funeral music of the second movement - and then again a carefree scherzo and a serene finale. On this album the monumental Sonata in B-flat major is combined with the three piano pieces D. 946. Album Tracks 1. Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-Flat Major, D.960 2. Three Piano Pieces, D. 946

Andrea Lucchesini is one of Italy's most prominent pianists who has established his reputation with a recording series of the complete Beethoven sonatas as well as of chamber music (including for audite). His latest project is dedicated to the late piano works of Franz Schubert - a multifaceted musical cosmos in which Schubert liberates himself from Beethoven's influence and pushes forward far into the modern age. This is also true of the two works that Lucchesini now presents in the third and final volume of his highly acclaimed Schubert series. They could not be more different whilst the G major Sonata, D. 894, opens with tender sounds which only gradually die out and seem improvisatory, the Sonata in C minor, D. 958, with it's robust opening chords reminds us of Beethoven's pianistic style. Schubert had deliberately opted for this as his point of departure, from which he then developed his own concept for a contemporary sonata. Andrea Lucchesini, born in Tuscany in 1965 and a student of the legendary Maria Tipo in Florence, magically does justice to both these contrasting works by immersing himself into the oscillations of one work and conjuring an urgent, dramatic force in the other. Album Tracks 1. Piano Sonata No. 18 in G Major, D. 894 'Fantasia' 2. Piano Sonata No. 19 in C minor, D. 958