Schubert / Mccawley - Leon McCawley Plays Piano Music By Franz Schubert - COMPACT DISCS [CD]
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SOMM Recordings is delighted to announce a major new by Leon McCawley focusing on the piano music of Franz Schubert. The new recording is the latest offering from a highly acclaimed partnership between SOMM and McCawley that has seen earlier albums devoted to Haydn, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Rachmaninov and Samuel Barber. Leon McCawley has been one Britain's foremost pianists since winning the International Beethoven Piano Competition in 1993, when he also took second prize in the Leeds International Piano Competition. Perhaps Inchthe most enigmatic of all musical geniusesInch, as Bryce Morrison describes him, Schubert himself famously declared InchI came into this world for nothing else but to composeInch. Two masterpieces are heard here. The Drei Klavierstücke saw Schubert reaching out in a radical new direction to deliver, says Morrison, something Inchwild, feverish, disjointed and intimate... visionary music with a vengeanceInch. The Wanderer Fantasy is a luxurious display of virtuoso opulence - music the like of which wouldn't be heard again until Liszt at his most incendiary - that makes fearsome demands on the soloist. Four songs arranged by Liszt remain uncannily faithful to Schubert's originals while adding an extra dimension of drama and sophistication to show both composers at their melodic and dramatic best. Leon McCawley's previous recordings for SOMM have received wide critical praise. Gramophone hailed his complete Rachmaninov Preludes as Incha distinguished issueInch, Fanfare described his playing of Brahms as Inchmusic-making of a very high orderInch with International Record Review adding InchWhen all is said and done, it is difficult to know whether McCawley's refined piano playing, his natural yet cultivated musicality or his boundless imagination warrants the greater praise. You must hear the recordingInch. His recording of Haydn's Sonatas and
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- GenreClassicalDescriptionSOMM Recordings is delighted to announce a major new by Leon McCawley focusing on the piano music of Franz Schubert. The new recording is the latest offering from a highly acclaimed partnership between SOMM and McCawley that has seen earlier albums devoted to Haydn, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Rachmaninov and Samuel Barber. Leon McCawley has been one Britain's foremost pianists since winning the International Beethoven Piano Competition in 1993, when he also took second prize in the Leeds International Piano Competition. Perhaps Inchthe most enigmatic of all musical geniusesInch, as Bryce Morrison describes him, Schubert himself famously declared InchI came into this world for nothing else but to composeInch. Two masterpieces are heard here. The Drei Klavierstücke saw Schubert reaching out in a radical new direction to deliver, says Morrison, something Inchwild, feverish, disjointed and intimate... visionary music with a vengeanceInch. The Wanderer Fantasy is a luxurious display of virtuoso opulence - music the like of which wouldn't be heard again until Liszt at his most incendiary - that makes fearsome demands on the soloist. Four songs arranged by Liszt remain uncannily faithful to Schubert's originals while adding an extra dimension of drama and sophistication to show both composers at their melodic and dramatic best. Leon McCawley's previous recordings for SOMM have received wide critical praise. Gramophone hailed his complete Rachmaninov Preludes as Incha distinguished issueInch, Fanfare described his playing of Brahms as Inchmusic-making of a very high orderInch with International Record Review adding InchWhen all is said and done, it is difficult to know whether McCawley's refined piano playing, his natural yet cultivated musicality or his boundless imagination warrants the greater praise. You must hear the recordingInch. His recording of Haydn's Sonatas andArtistSCHUBERT / MCCAWLEYTitleLeon McCawley Plays Piano Music By Franz SchubertFormatCDLabelSomm Recordings
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SOMM Recordings is pleased to announce the third volume in Leon McCawley's much praised series of Franz Joseph Haydn's Piano Sonatas. Six Sonatas, spanning the years 1767-84, are featured the earliest No.31 in A-flat major, the latest No.56 in D major while Robert Matthew- Walker provides fascinating booklet notes describing the multifarious effects on his music of Haydn's enthusiasm for equal temperament. Sonata No.31 in A-flat major is, he says, a continuation of Bach that seems to bypass Mozart and anticipate early Beethoven InchAstonishingly original music, and not just for it's timeInch. The two-movement Sonata No.32 in G minor is a unique and intimate work while No.34 in D major boasts an innovative tonal scheme that disguises it's virtuosity with immediately approachable technique. The F major Sonata No.38, notes Matthew-Walker, is Inchfull of that wonderful combination of inner life and directly human expression that is the essence of HaydnInch. Two later Sonatas - Nos.55 (B-flat major) and 56 (D major) - arguably saw romantic sonata form tested to it's expressive limits by InchHaydn's original geniusInch and his Inchthematic developmental-variation technique even today causing surprise for it's profoundly original subtletiesInch. Volume I was recognized with a coveted Diapason d'Or from Diapason magazine, which enthused InchWhat a range in his interpretation and how many layers of gradation! McCawley ties these together in a special quality of inflexions which make their point with great intelligibility and sensitivityInch. BBC Music Magazine declared Volume II Inchshould stand high on any listInch of quality recordings of Haydn, adding Inchthe sparkle of McCawley's touch is instantly apparentInch. Gramophone also commended McCawley's playing, describing it as Inchlight of touch, stylistically assured and brimful of intelligence and witInch.
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