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As early evidence of Schubert's preoccupation with early music, his Fantasy in C D 2 E from 1811 contains echoes of Mozart's C minor Fantasy, while the virtuoso Graz Fantasy in C D 605 A, probably com...

Schumann's Arabeske and Blumenstück were composed during his stay in Vienna from October 1838 to April 1839 in the context of weightier piano works such as the C major Fantasy op. 17, the Humoreske op...

Schubert's great C minor Sonata D 958 was composed in 1828, a few months before his death, at the same time as the late sonatas in A D 959 and in B flat D 960. The three works, conceived by Schubert a...

The most famous of the fantasies, the Wanderer Fantasy, is also published as a single edition. When Schubert himself once played the Wanderer Fantasy with friends and faltered, he exclaimed impatientl...

There has been much debate about the significance of Liszt's late piano pieces. On the one hand, they are regarded as harbingers of the ageing Liszt's fading inspiration; on the other, they are praise...

The Fantasia in F minor op. 103 - D 940 which was completed in April 1828, the last year of Schubert's life, was followed in May by the equally popular Allegro in A minor op. post. 144 - D 947 and in...

Graham Buckland brings mythical scenes to life, always with a focus on locomotion: One hears the flowing of the swimmers of Gilf Kebir (known from the movie "The English Patient"), the three-beat of t...

This effective, demanding work for piano solo captivates through its changes between twirling cascades and oases of tranquillity whereby the irridescent development focuses on central reference tones....

The composer Thomas Daniel Schlee writes about his piano piece "Sursum chordis corda": "The third movement of my Second Symphony bears the title "Sursum corda", that liturgical call to lift up our hea...

The title of this piano work, written on the occasion of Pierre Boulez's 90th birthday, refers to the American painter Barnett Newman, one of the abstract expressionists of the 20th century. In his fa...

The pioneering edition of Jean Barraqué's "Sonate pour piano" (1950-1952) is the first time that a work from the heyday of serial music has been made available in a source-critical Urtext edition. The...

Lauschgut (2018/19) follows the idea of freeing the piano from its chordal tradition. Instead, the single note is fringed so far inwards that pitch and noise can meet in "fanned-out unanimity". The pi...

Zsigmond Szathmáry was deeply impressed by the vibrant colors and expressiveness of the mosaic paintings in the apse and altar area of the late antique church of San Vitale in Ravenna. The composer wa...

Red roots' (2022) hints at its source material in depth – only to turn it into something independent. Starting from a Beethovenian cell (from the unpublished sketch, 'Wir irren allesamt'), the focus i...

Beethoven composed the works known as the "Elector Sonatas" in 1783 as a pupil of Christian Gottlob Neefe in Bonn. "He would certainly become a second Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart if he progressed as he ha...

If the epithet "Appassionata" applies to one of Beethoven's sonatas, it is not the famous work in F minor op. 57, as Carl Czerny believed, but the E flat major sonata op. 7, which was written "in a ve...

Beethoven's Piano Sonata in B flat major op. 22, composed in 1800, marks the end of his first creative phase. The only surviving manuscript source of the work, which was entitled "Grande Sonate" in th...

Beethoven's four-movement Sonata in A flat major op. 26 is one of his most popular works. It is dedicated to Prince Karl von Lichnowsky, one of his most important patrons, to whom Beethoven also dedic...

With the sonatas op. 31, composed in 1802, Beethoven brought together piano sonatas as a group for the last time. The highlight of the collection is undoubtedly the middle work in D minor, whose drama...

The Sonata in F major op. 54, written in 1804 immediately after the highly virtuoso "Waldstein" Sonata, is still unjustly overshadowed by its predecessor and the subsequent "Appassionata" in F minor o...

It is hard to imagine that this very lyrical and moderately difficult piano sonata in the unusual key of F sharp major was preceded by the highly dramatic Sonata in f op. 57 ("Appassionata", BA 10852)...

Beethoven incorporated very personal impressions into his Sonata op. 81a, composed in 1809/10, with the movement titles "Das Lebewohl", "Die Abwesenheit" and "Das Wiedersehn". The compositional trigge...

It was not until 1814, five years after the Sonata op. 81a ("Les Adieux"), that Beethoven composed a new work in this genre at the height of his popularity during the Congress of Vienna. The extremely...