Mushel - Complete Organ Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This New CD By Daniel Mu?Ller-Schott and Francesco Piemontesi Offers Three Sonatas for Cello and Piano, Works That Sum Up Several Chapters of 20th C. History That Go Far Beyond the Merely Musical. Sergei Prokofiev Displays a Masterly Serenity in His Songlike Sonata in C, Op. 119, Composed in 1949. It Makes Evident His Adjustment to the Cultural Politics of the Soviet Union - to Which This World-Famous Composer Had Returned Just Twelve Years Before - But Is Also Tailor-Made for An Exceptional Cello-Piano Duo. Dmitri Shostakovich's Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40 Is No Less Marked By Fate. It Was on the Program of a Concert Tour Given By the Composer and His Cello Partner Viktor Kubatsky in 1936 When Shostakovich Was Put on the Stalinist Index of Undesirables, on Orders from the Very Top. Finally, Benjamin Britten's Sonata in C, Op. 65 Marked the Beginning of a Productive, Creative Friendship with Rostropovich That Was Established, Despite Many a Problem Posed By the Cold War, in Aldeburgh in 1961 When Performed By the Composer and Rostropovich. Album Tracks 1. Andante Grave 2. Moderato 3. Allegro Ma Non Troppo 4. Dialogo. Allegro 5. Scherzo Pizzicato. Allegretto 6. Elegia. Lento 7. Marcia. Energico 8. Moto Perpetuo. Presto 9. Allegro Non Troppo - Largo 10. Allegro 11. Largo 12. Allegro

The composer we know as Annibale Padovano was named after his native city of Padua, but in 1552 he became organist at St Mark's Venice while the Dutch composer Adrian Willaert was master of music there. Padovano probably joined Willaert's group of pupils, and he would have encountered the likes of Andrea Gabrieli and Cipriano de Rore. Nonetheless, his reputation rests on the slender book of organ music published in 1604, which reveals him as a master contrapuntalist of his age in the Ricercars, and no less innovative or inventive in his use of the Toccata form, clearly Venetian in spirit yet individual in expression. Vincenzo Pellegrini was born in Pesaro around 1562. Following his studies at the seminary, he became a canon regular of the cathedral in 1589 and appears to have been a popular teacher as well as a composer of church music. His work for organ likely dates from the end of his life, when he had become a canon in Milan Cathedral where there was a stronger tradition of instrumental composition. The Canzoni that have come down to us betray an evident debt to the French chanson tradition simpler in form than Pellegrini, their melodic freshness and charm offers more than ample compensation in works such as 'La Serpentina' which has become a popular work of the period in it's own right. This is Luca Scandali's sixth album for Brilliant Classics, after imaginative collections of repertoire such as 'Balli, battaglie e canzoni' and 17th-century Italian organ music by Galuppi and Pasquini. For this album he has selected the historically significant organ in the Basilica of Santa Barbara in Mantova, which is tuned to the mean-tone temperament used in the era of Padovano and Pellegrini Album Tracks 1. Toccata Del Ottavo Tono 2. Ricercar Del Sesto Tono Alla Terza 3. Canzone Detta la Berenice 4. Canzon Detta la Nora 5. Canzon Detta la Cassiodora 6. Canzo

Album Tracks 1. Christum Wir Sollen Loben Schon 2. Es Ist Das Heil Uns Kommen Her 3. Allein Zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ 4. Praeludium 5. Ciaccona 6. I. Allegro 7. II. Siciliana 8. III. Vivace 9. I. Allegro 10. II. Adagio 11. III. Vivace 12. I. Allegro 13. II. Largo 14. III. Vivace 15. I. Allegro 16. II. Adagio 17. III. Allegro 18. Praeludium in D Major 19. Praeludium in B-Flat Major 20. Praeludium in F Major 21. Praeludium in D Major 22. Praeludium in E minor