Roland P ntinen: Piano Rhapsody - COMPACT DISCS

Roland P ntinen: Piano Rhapsody - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Piano Rhapsody Artist: Roland P ntinen Label: Bis Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 7318590090442 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2013 07 30 Number of Discs: 4 Roland Pontinen first entered a recording studio for BIS in 1983 at the age of 20 and released his debut recital disc the following year. Since then he has appeared on more than 60 discs in the label's catalogue, as soloist with orchestra, in piano recital and chamber music programs. Drawn

Title: Piano Rhapsody
Artist: Roland P ntinen
Label: Bis
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 7318590090442
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2013-07-30
Number of Discs: 4

Roland Pontinen first entered a recording studio for BIS in 1983 - at the age of 20 - and released his debut recital disc the following year. Since then he has appeared on more than 60 discs in the label's catalogue, as soloist with orchestra, in piano recital and chamber music programs. Drawn from this impressive discography, Piano Rhapsody is a wide-ranging collection of pieces which allows US to admire the talent, the breadth of repertoire and the unquenchable curiosity of this 'pianists' pianist'. But it is also an odyssey through the piano literature, which takes in the well-known and less familiar (from F++r Elise to Carl Tausig's Johann Strauss paraphrase), and features miniatures as well as bravura works (Satie's Gnossiennes and Grieg's Piano Concerto). It also traverses a large tract of music history, making stops in the 1720s (Bach's Prelude No.1 in C major), the budding Romantic era (C.M. von Weber's Perpetuum Mobile) and 'the Age of the Great Virtuosos' (Liszt and Rubinstein, among others) and reflecting the proliferation of national schools in the early 20th century, with composers of Russian, French, Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish and Czech extraction. All in all, the generous playing time (5 hours 20 minutes) and the wide-ranging program provide a unique opportunity to explore the piano and it's literature, with one of Sweden's finest pianists as our guide.

Tracks:
1.1 Prelude No. 1 in C Major
1.2 Bagatelle in a Minor, Wo059, 'FÜR Elise'
1.3 Perpetuum Mobile
1.4 Moment Musical in a Flat Major, D780, No. 2
1.5 Minuet in G minor
1.6 Nocturne No. 9 in B Major, Op. 32, No. 1
1.7 Agnus Dei
1.8 Prelude in D Flat Major, Op. 28, No. 15, 'Raindrop'
1.9 Boléro, Op. 19
1.10 Mazurka No. 20 in D Flat Major, Op. 30, No. 3
1.11 Mazurka No. 25 in B minor, Op. 33, No. 4
1.12 Nocturne No. 18 in E Major, Op. 62, No. 2
1.13 Sonata in F minor, L118
1.14 Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14
1.15 Träumerei
1.16 Nocturne in C Sharp minor, Op. Posth
2.1 Valse-Caprice in E Flat Major
2.2 Lilacs, Op. 21, No. 5
2.3 Daisies, Op. 38, No. 3
2.4 Polka de V.R
2.5 Prelude in C Sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 2
2.6 Abendglocken
2.7 Liebesfreud
2.8 Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17, No. 4
2.9 Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38
2.10 No. 1 in a Flat Major
2.11 No. 2 in E Major
2.12 No. 3 in a Flat Major
2.13 Valse Oubliée No. 1
2.14 Man Lebt Nur Einmal
2.15 Étincelles, Morceau Caractéristique, Op. 36, No. 6
2.16 Clair de Lune
3.1 Allegro Non Troppo E Molto Maestoso
3.2 Andantino Simplice
3.3 Allegro Con Fuoco
3.4 Lullaby
3.5 Fantasy in B minor, Op. 11
3.6 Bryllupsdag PÅ Troldhaugen, Op. 65, No. 6
3.7 Allegro Molto Moderato
3.8 Adagio
3.9 Allegro Molto Moderato E Marcato
4.1 Amarcord Improvisation
4.2 Andaluza
4.3 Je Te Veux
4.4 Improvisation on 'Promenade Sentimentale'
4.5 Première Gymnopédie
4.6 Deuxième Gymnopédie
4.7 Troisième Gymnopédie
4.8 Tango Español in A minor, Op. 164
4.9 Solöga
4.10 Fantaise-Valse
4.11 Cinema Music
4.12 Nuit de Noël
4.13 Toccata in D minor, Op. 11
4.14 Danza de la Moza Donosa
4.15 Quejas, Ó la Maja y El Ruiseñor
4.16 Lent
4.17 Lent
4.18 Modéré
4.19 Evocación
4.20 The Madonna of Frydek
4.21 Rota Reminiscence

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