Richard Strauss: Piano Music

Richard Strauss Piano Sonata in B minor, Op.5 1. I.Allegro molto appassionat 2. II.Adagio cantabile 3. lll.Scherzo. Presto – Trio. Un poco più lento 4. IV.Finale. Allegretto vivo Five Piano Pieces, Op. 3 5. No. 1: Andante 6. No. 2: Allegro vivace scherzando 7. No. 3: Largo 8. No. 4: Allegro molto 9. No. 5: Allegro marcatissimo Stimmungsbilder (Mood Paintings), Op. 9 10. Auf stillem Waldespfad (In silent forests) 11. An einsamer Quelle (At the spring) 12. Intermezzo 13. Träumerei (Reverie) 14. Heidebild (The Heath) Richard Strauss Piano Music © by Kim E. Sommerschield “They are minor miracles: as refined, as polished, as anything Mendelssohn did in his teenage years”. Perhaps not everyone would concur with these descriptions of Richard Strauss’piano works Opp. 3 and 5 by that inveterate provocateur Glenn Gould in an interview given shortly before his death in 1982 (the Sonata Op. 5 was indeed the last work the pianist ever recorded). And others still might demur when Gould claims that “with the exception of Mendelssohn, no sixteen-year-old has ever written with such craft and assurance and I am not forgetting Mozart ” (his italics). Still, Gould the performer had an uncanny ability to make second-rate music sound first rate, and as someone who labelled himself “an incurabie romantic” it was natural that he nurtured a particular affection for Strauss’ piano compositions. RELEASE DATE: August 1997 CATALOGUE NUMBER.: DACOCD 440 EAN: 5709499440001 Download BOOKLET (PDF) Related