Composer: Jaromir Weinberger
Performer: Gottlieb Wallisch
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Grand Piano
Catalogue: GP887
Release: 2022
Size: 666 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Sarabande for Piano
Piano Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 4
02. I. Allegro passionato
03. II. Vivo ironicamente
04. III. Introduzione. Moderato – Fuga. Largo
Piano Sonata No. 3 in G Major “Spinet Sonata”
05. I. Andantino
06. II. Menuett. Allegro giusto
07. III. Finale. Rondo
08. Pavane pour dulcinea de toboso
09. Valses nobles for Piano
Rytiny
10. No. 1, Prelude & Fugue
11. No. 2, Prelude & Fugue
12. No. 3, Prelude & Fugue
13. No. 4, Prelude & Fugue
14. No. 5, Prelude & Fugue
15. Mi-La-Do
Švanda dudák (Arr. G. Blasser for Piano)
16. I. Furiant
17. II. Böhmischer Tanz
18. III. Polka
The international success of Weinberger’s opera Schwanda the Bagpiper in 1927 has obscured a sequence of piano works written when the composer was still in his teens. The Second and Third Piano Sonatas form a commanding pair, both written in 1915 – the former autobiographical, playful and dark – the latter neo-Classical with Francophile elements. Elsewhere one can admire his use of 16th-century dance forms, his melodic gifts in the Valses nobles, and his technical command of preludes and fugues in Gravures. The three arrangements from Schwanda show his imperishable use of Bohemian dance forms.