Olga Pashchenko - Transitions - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. B-Moll Szonáta / Sonata in B minor Op.58 2. B-Moll Nocturne / Nocturne in B Flat minor Op. 9 No.1 3. Esz-Dúr Nocturne / Nocturne in E Flat Major Op.9 No.2 4. Cisz-Moll Polonéz / Polonaise in C Sharp minor Op.26 No.1 5. A-Dúr Polonéz / Polonaise in a Major Op. 40 No.1 6. B-Moll Scherzo / Scherzo in B Flat minor Op.31 7. Fisz-Moll Mazurka /Mazurka in F Sharpminor Op.59 No.3 8. F-Moll Ballada / Ballad in F minor Op.52 9. C-Moll Etud / Etude in C minor Op.10 No.12

Two years after her recording of Mozart's piano concertos KV 271 and KV 459, Olga Pashchenko returns to the Il Gardellino ensemble for the concertos KV 466 and KV 488. KV 466 is in D minor, a key that Mozart often uses to express the anger of his female characters in his operas. KV 488 was composed a year later in 1786 and is in the luminous key of A major, although without losing any of the theatrical dynamism of KV 466. They represent an almost dramatic, pre-Romantic theatricality for Nicolas Derny, who sees these concertos as the precursors of two of Mozart's greatest masterpieces the Requiem and Le nozze di Figaro. Olga Pashchenko here plays a replica of an Anton Walter fortepiano (ca. 1792) built by Paul McNulty. Album Tracks 1. Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, KV 466~I. Allegro 2. Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, KV 466~II. Romance 3. Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, KV 466~III. Allegro assai 4. Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, KV 488~I. Allegro 5. Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, KV 488~II. Adagio 6. Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, KV 488~III. Allegro assai

Album Tracks 1. 32 Variations on An Original Theme in C minor, Woo80 2. Andante 3. Rondo (Allegro) 4. Fantasia in G minor, Op. 77 5. Allegro Ma Non Troppo 6. Tempo Di Menuetto 7. Eroica Variations, Op. 35