Ying-Hsueh Chen - Dark Radiance - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The sixth volume of Busoni' piano music features two major projects from the earlier part of his career. The Liszt transcription powerfully recreates the composer' grandest work for organ. Album Tracks 1. Fantasia - 2. Adagio - 3. Fuga - 4. I. Allegro Risoluto Vivace Ed Energico 5. II. Andante Con Moto 6. III. Nella Guisa Di Un'improvvisazione - Allegro Fugato 7. Prelude 8. Etude

For his debut GENUIN , the young pianist Yuxing Chen chooses two great sonatas. He combines Beethoven's Waldstein sonata and Liszt's Sonata in B minor, repertoire he also performed at his graduation concert at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre in the summer of 2022. Both sonatas, each a milestone of considerable duration and the highest degree of difficulty, are almost larger than life in every respect. Yuxing Chen makes us forget all that when he interprets the two works of the great composers and pianists with an abundance of naturalness as if stemming from the moment. For him, music is not only an outlet for the most profound emotions - it is the universal and ever-changing language of life. Album Tracks 1. Piano Sonatas in B minor, S. 178 (1852-53) 2. Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53 InchWaldsteinInch (1803-04)

Charles-Joseph Van Helmont played a leading role in music in Brussels during the Baroque period. In 1737 he followed in the footsteps of Joseph-Hector Fiocco and composed a cycle of nine Leçons de ténèbres for solo voice and continuo. Ornamentation in the French style blends here with Italian lyricism, and each lamentation of the prophet Jeremiah is granted it's own particular atmosphere. He revised one of his most beautiful Leçons of Holy Week in 1756 and added a solo cello part, also taking the opportunity to compose a completely new Leçon whose galant style surprises as much as it seduces the listener. For these works, recorded here for the first time, the Brussels-based ensemble Scherzi Musicali has here assembled three sopranos and several instrumentalists around a magnificent organ (1775) built by Guillaume Robustelly.