Rarities of Piano Music, Husum 2005, vol. 17

Nikolai Medtner 1. Improvisation Op. 31 No. 1 (1915) Pancho Vladigerov 2. Prelude Op. 15 No. 1 (1922) Sergei Prokofiev 3. Waltz Op. 102 No. 1 (1944) Florent Schmitt 4. Ombres Op. 64 No. 1 (1917) – ‘J’entends dans la Lointain…’ Louis Moreau Gottschalk 5. Bamboula – danse de Nègres RO20 (Op. 2) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 6. 9 Variations on “Lison dormait” KV264 George Enescu Sonate No. 3 Op. 24 No. 3 (1935) 7. 2nd Movement: Andantino cantabile Franz Schubert 8. Dances Pierre Sancan 9. Boîte á Musique (1950) Chick Corea 10. Spain (1972) Jerome Kern ‘All the Things You Are’ (1939) The 2005 Festival of Rarities of Piano Music at ‘Schloss vor Husum’ © Husum is a sleepy little seaside resort in Schleswig-Holstein, on the North Frisian coast of Germany, just south of Denmark. It has long had a literary claim to fane: it was the birthplace, in 1817, oft he writer Theodore Storn. But Husum couldn’t lay claim to nuch musical importance – until 1987, when Peter Froundjian founded the festival ‘Rarities of Piano Music’, which has since become a Mecca for pianists and pianophiles with a taste for the unusual. ‘Rarities of Piano Music’ consists of a series of eight concerts, all held in the Schloss vor Husum, a late-sixteenth-century moated castle; its first-floor Rittersaal can seat 160 people. The concerts are, therefore, unifomly sold out; since  1989 this series of Danacord recordings has been making the highlights of each festival available to a wider audience. RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 2006 CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 659 EAN: 5709499659007 Download BOOKLET (PDF) Related