Scott Ross - Complete Keyboard Sonatas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Both JS Bach's six Trio Sonatas and Mendels-sohn's six Organ Sonatas are conceived as tutorial pieces - an Inchorgan schoolInch - to help attain demanding playing skills at the highest musical level. We know from Bach that he wrote his sonatas for his eldest son, Wilhelm Friedemann. Mendelssohn is known to have been familiar with Bach's sonatas and their pedagogical purpose. He gradually developed his own Organ Sonatas, originally for the English market they are equal in number to Bach's sonatas, as well as in their intention as instructive pieces, Incha kind of organ schoolInch, as Mendelssohn himself wrote to the . Johann Sebastian Bach composed into his six Trio Sonatas Inchthe sum of all the difficulties that a teacher wants a gifted pupil to masterInch (Marie-Claire Alain); written between 1727 and 1732, they remain a touchstone for every organist to this day. A good hundred years later, Mendelssohn created his Organ Sonatas - among other things, the independent and prominent pedal treatment (each movement features a pedal solo) and the frequent playing on several manuals challenge the player in the same spirit. Anything but monotonous studies, the results in both cases were masterpieces of the highest order.

Scriabin / Donohoe - Complete Piano Sonatas [COMPACT DISCS] date 02/03/2017

This boxed-set of the complete Haydn piano sonatas performed by Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is presented in a clam-shell box, retailing at eleven discs for the price of five. Recorded between 2009 and 2021, this mammoth project has consistently drawn the highest critical acclaim 'A project that began in 2010 is completed; what a journey it has been. Bavouzet's gifts of insightful exposition and revelation are matched by the wisdom of his curation... A triumph' - The Sunday Times 'A recording worth rushing to the shops for. Bavouzet plays these inventive masterpieces with real love' -Classic FM 'Quite apart from his stylistic command and sheer delight in the music, Bavouzet's mixing and matching of different periods in the composer's awe-inspiring pianistic development ensures there is never a dull moment' -The Financial Times 'Bavouzet's readings have a strong claim to be the finest Haydn playing of recent vintage on the modern piano. They are a work of an insightful musician of profound culture and wide interests, whose intellectual emotional identification with Haydn is unreserved, and whose playing, beautifully captured in technical terms, is a delight to listen to.'- International Record Review 'A major modern recording landmark in the Haydn discography' - Gramophone