Schmidt / Schmeding - Gesamtwerk Fur Orgel 3 - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

Gustav Piekut is establishing himself as one of the most interesting young classical musicians in Scandinavia. He has been described by the West-Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung as Incha poet and virtuoso at the pianoInch and Inchstunned the audience with his transparent playing and sense of timingInch according to Hamburger Abendblatt. After debuting with the South Jutland Symphony Orchestra at the age of 12, and appearing two years later as a soloist with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gustav Piekut regularly travels across Europe for recital, concerto and festival performances. In addition to winning four prizes at Aarhus International Piano Competition in 2017, Gustav Piekut has taken prizes in the Dublin International Piano Competition, Piano Campus Competition Pontoise, Astana Piano Passion, Balys Dvarionas International Music Competition, International Piano Forum Sanok and many others. This is Gustav Piekut's debut recording.

The programme on this CD begins and ends with transcriptions of works by Beethoven. The first piece is the Allegretto (2nd movement) from Beethoven's 7th Symphony in the arrangement by Franz Liszt, and the programme ends with a solo piano version of Beethoven's song An die Hoffnung, created especially for this CD. The two pieces form a framework of sonorities and emotions that set the basic mood for this musical journey. The Allegretto serves as a prologue it looks ahead, indicating the direction we shall be taking. At the other end of the programme, the song transcription serves as an epilogue it looks back, taking stock of all that has occurred. On the one hand, there is a somber mood that runs through the entire programme we find it in the Allegretto's passages in minor, in the Schumann variations, in the third movement of the Beethoven sonata, and in the recitativo-like passages of An die Hoffnung. These are complemented by episodes of light the A-Major sections of the Allegretto, the first, second, and fourth movements of the sonata, and, ultimately, the hopeful, optimistic sonorities we find in the song transcription with the final cry InchO, Hope!Inch (Aris Alexander Blettenberg) Album Tracks 1. Allegretto from Symphony No. 7, Op. 92 2. Studies in Form of Free Variations on a Theme By Beethoven, Woo 31 3. Sonata for Piano No. 26 a Major, Op. 101 4. To Hope = An Die Hoffnung, Op. 94

Album Tracks 1. Five Piano Pieces Op 3 (FS10) 2. Symphonic Suite Op 8 (FS19) 3. Humoresque Bagatelles Op 11 (FS22) 4. Festival Prelude (FS24) (Tempo Giusto) 5. The Dream of Merry Christmas (FS34) (Poco Adagio) 6. Chaconne Op 32 (FS79) (Tempo Giusto) 7. Theme with Variations Op 40 (FS81) (Andante) 8. Suite Op 45 (FS91) 9. Three Piano Pieces Op 59 (FS131) 10. Piano Music for Young and Old Op 53 (FS148) Book I The Sharp Keys 11. Piano Music for Young and Old Op 53 (FS148) Book II The Flat Keys 12. Piano Piece in C