Composer: Ludwig Berger, Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, Joao Domingos Bomtempo, Johann Baptist Cramer, Daniel Steibelt, Joseph Woelfl
Performer: Anna Petrova-Forster
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCN0005
Release: 2021
Size: 643 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Cramer: Étude in G sharp minor, Op. 30 No. 26
02. Cramer: Étude in D major, Op. 40 No. 77
Steibelt: Études, Op. 78
03. No. 31 in A Minor
04. No. 26 in D Minor
05. No. 33 in D Minor
06. No. 10 in G Major
07. No. 11 in E-Flat Major
08. No. 30 in C Major
09. No. 24 in F Minor
Woelfl: Method of the Pianoforte, Op. 56
10. Étude No. 41 in F Minor
11. Étude No. 18 in D Minor
12. Étude No. 15 in E-Flat Major
Cours complet pour l’enseignement du forté-piano
13. Étude No. 78 in A Major
14. Étude No. 107 in B Major
Bomtempo: Elementos de música, Op. 19
15. Étude No. 7 in B-Flat Minor
16. Étude No. 5 in E Major
17. Étude No. 11 in G Minor
Berger: Études, Op. 12
18. No. 1 in C Major
19. No. 3 in C Minor
20. No. 4 in D Major
21. No. 8 in B-Flat Minor
22. No. 9 in G Minor
23. No. 11 in G Minor
Berger: Études, Op. 22
24. No. 3 in C Minor
25. No. 1 in A Minor
26. No. 14 in B Major
Boëly: Études, Op. 6
27. No. 30 in D Major
28. No. 3 in F Major
The best-known piano studies are the 27 by Chopin, most of them composed in the 1830s. But Chopin did not create the genre: a number of prominent pianist-composers had already established the piano study, or étude, in the decades before Chopin sat down to write his. Although this repertoire is as good as unknown today, it is a treasure-trove of miniature jewels, many of them announcing the dawn of Romanticism in their combination of Classical delicacy and a new harmonic warmth.