Various Artists - Rarities of Piano Music 2001 / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Incompleteness brings to mind usually bad connotations. A breach of finis coronat opus principle often causes lack of symmetry of work, interferes with the expectancy and logic of a design, and finally builds a sense of it's limitations. We can multiply examples of buildings that have never lived to see their final architectural shape, or the ones, which combine different styles compiled over the centuries; and that does not always produce indisputably successful result. Studying of biographies of prominent composers stirs speculations what else and how would Mozart, Pergolesi, Schubert write if the Great Director did not remove them from the stage of life so early? How would their style develop, what measures would they apply and how many works - probably remarkable ones - would have been created if they could reach their venerable years? The Incompleta album presents the works for a string quartet, which were, for some reason, never finished. Each of these works is completely different and reveals quite varied life situations of composers, different contexts and causes of the unfinished pieces. Album Tracks 1. Contrapunctus 1 2. I. Andante Grazioso 3. II. Menuetto Ma Non Troppo Presto 4. Contrapunctus 4 5. Allegro Con Brio 6. Contrapunctus 9 7. Andante Sostenuto and Variations in E Major, Op. 81, No. 1, MWV R34 8. Scherzo in a Minor, Op. 81, No. 2, MWV R35 9. Contrapunctus 19 10. 18 Chorales, BWV 651-668, InchLeipziger ChoraleInch Wenn Wir in Hochsten Noten Sein, BWV 668A - Vor Deinen Thron, BWV 668 (Arr. for String Quartet)

Founded in 1987 the annual Rarities of Piano Music Festival in the North German town of Husum is a major event. Danacord is proud to the recording from the 32nd Festival in 2018 featuring again rare piano music played by some of the leading pianists of today. Among the highlights you will find the truly remarkable pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi and very rare piano works by Vierne and Nicode. Many of the works are first ever album recordings, and as usual all are unedited live performances. All lovers of piano music will want this , not only because of the first class pianism from truly outstanding performers, but also because the quality of the often unknown and rare mostly romantic piano music is of such invaluable substance. Critics are raving about the piano sound and the long and informative booklet. Album Tracks 1. Ballade 2. La Maison Dans Les Dunes 3. 12 Préludes Op. 36 4. 10 Impressions, Op. 9 (No. 8 Passion) 5. Le Grillon, Op. 60 Bis (Nocturne No. 4) 6. Le Rossignol Éperdu 7. 27 Pieces for Piano, Op. 74 8. Songs from the Bukovina 9. Ein LiebeslebenInch, Op. 22 10. Libertango

Album Tracks 1. Fantasie & Fuge Über Den Choral 'Ad Nos, Ad Salutarem Undam', for Organ, S. 259 (LW E1) 2. Complainte, for Piano 3. Romantic Sketches for the Young (Romantische Skizzen FÜR Die Jugend), for Piano, Op. 54 Prélude 4. Barcarolle, for Piano in G Major (A Greeting to My Native Land No. 2), G. Vi225 5. Pieces (4), for Piano Op. 11 No.2, Novellette 6. Pesenka (Little Song in the Dorian Mode), for Piano 7. Pieces (3), for Piano, Op. 15 Romance in a Flat Major 8. Prélude for Piano 9. Mazurka-Caprice for Piano 10. Rondo for Piano 11. Lotus Land for Piano, Op. 47/1 (W 183) 12. Fox Trot for Piano 13. Eine Fuge for Piano, Op 15/5 ('Prptilpus')