Composer: Adolf Barjansky
Performer: Julia Severus
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Grand Piano
Catalogue: GP796
Release: 2020
Size: 1.02 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Fantasy Pieces, Op. 9
01. No. 1, Presto
02. No. 2, Andante sostenuto
03. No. 3, Allegro giusto ma vivo
04. No. 4, Allegretto moderato
05. No. 5, Andante non troppo
06. No. 6, Con moto tranquillo
Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 7
07. I. Allegro maestoso
08. II. Maestoso
09. III. Presto
10. IV. Allegro molto quasi presto ed appassionato
6 Piano Pieces, Op. 10
11. No. 1, Near the Sea
12. No. 2, Remembrance
13. No. 3, Lullaby
14. No. 4, Scherzo
15. No. 5, A Happy Home
16. No. 6, Devotion
Adolf Barjansky was born in Odessa into a wealthy Russian-Jewish family, and received his musical education in Vienna, Paris and Leipzig, studying piano with Carl Reinecke and Salomon Judassohn. Barjansky composed relatively few works, but his highly attractive and original piano music reveals the influence of Schubert, Beethoven and Brahms with a wealth of Russian colour, as heard in the Fantasy Pieces. The 6 Piano Pieces are impressionistic and radiant, while the large-scale Piano Sonata No. 1 uses spatial sound as a principal means of expression, blending it with a highly modern simplicity and transparency of structure that anticipates 20th-century minimalism.