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PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Grande Sonate, Op.37 (1878)
32:15
in G major • in G-Dur • en sol majeur
Á Monsieur Ch. Klindworth
1.
I
Moderato e risoluto - Tranquillo - Tempo I
12:42
2.
II
Andante non troppo quasi moderato - L'istesso tempo -
9:44
Cantabile con molto sentimento e marcato la melodia -
3.
III
Scherzo. Allegro giocoso
3:03
4.
IV
Finale. Allegro vivace
6:34
5.
Méditation, Op.72 No.5 (1893)
5:30
in D major • in D-Dur • en ré majeur
from Dix-huit Morceaux
(Eighteen Pieces)
À Mr Basile Safonoff
Andante mosso - Più mosso - Tempo I - Più animato - Tempo I, ma rubato
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Moments musicaux, Op.16 (1896, No.2 revised 1940)
30:08
À Monsieur A. Zatayevitch
6.
1
Andantino - Con moto - Andantino con moto - Tempo I
7:15
in B flat minor • in b-Moll • en si bémol mineur
7.
2
Allegretto - Adagio
3:46
in E flat minor • in es-Moll • en mi bémol mineur
8.
3
Andante cantabile
7:10
in B minor • in h-Moll • en si mineur
9.
4
Presto - Più vivo - Prestissiimo
3:03
in E minor • in e-Moll • en mi mineur
10.
5
Adagio sostenuto
3:35
in D flat major • in Des-Dur • en ré bémol majeur
11.
6
Maestoso
5:00
in C major • in C-Dur • en ut majeur
Total time: 67:22
Notes
Tchaikovsky’s Grande Sonate, or ‘Grand Sonata’ (Bolshaya Sonata), in G major was dedicated to Karl Klindworth, a pupil of Liszt, and first performed at a private hearing, on 21 October 1879, by Nikolay Rubinstein, founder of the Moscow Conservatory. Composed in the autumn of 1896, the Six Moments musicaux of Rachmaninoff adopt musical forms from previous eras: the nocturne, song without words, barcarolle, virtuoso étude, and theme and variations. Written in haste in order to meet the commission deadline (the twenty-three-year-old Rachmaninoff was desperately short of funds), the set evidences his virtuosity, and is full of portent of the music to come.
Barry Douglas writes: ‘This recording project with Chandos Records is a personal salute from me to great masterworks of the Russian repertoire. I am an Irish pianist who, nevertheless, feels a deep affinity with Russian culture, and felt it even before I had the good fortune to win the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1986. Our own Irish composer and virtuoso pianist John Field, who invented the Nocturne and taught a whole generation of Russian musicians, fermented the linkage between Ireland and Russia, and I feel very proud to help keep this synergy alive!’
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“…In Rachmaninov’s, Moments musicaux, absolute clarity of texture is of secondary consideration in the three fast numbers (Nos 2, 4 and 6). In these – and especially among the torrential demisemiquavers and triple/quadruple forte markings of the latter – Douglas throws caution to the wind, playing with an uninhibited, refulgent ecstasy that I found profoundly moving. At the centre of the set is the B minor Moment, which is moving for a different reason, as melancholic and brooding as anything Tchaikovsky wrote, beautifully played.”
Jeremy Nicholas – Gramophone magazine – December 2019
Performance **** Recording ****
“… Douglas shines brilliantly in the virtuosic numbers, which allow him to show truly impressive fingerwork and layering (the fourth movement of the Moments Musicaux is dazzling in this regard)…”
Natasha Loges – BBC Music magazine – Christmas 2019
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