Bel Canto Concertante

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CARL CZERNY
Bel Canto Concertante
Rosemary Tuck (piano) / English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge

[ Naxos / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 1 May 2015

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Carl Czerny is remembered as a pupil and friend of Beethoven and the composer of numerous piano studies, but in his lifetime he was renowned for a prodigious output of brilliant concert works, most of which remain entirely unknown to present-day audiences and performers. Inspired by the most famous and attractive themes from Bel Canto operas which were hugely popular in their time and are still performed today, these sets of variations give full rein to the soloist and are a major contribution to the great pianist-composer tradition.

"Carl Czerny wrote so much more than just studies, and it is great to have more and more of it become available on CD. At Naxos's bargain price, it would be virtually impossible not to welcome this charming CD. After all, each work is both attractive and uncomplicated to listen to and gives a good insight into the art of simple variation. The music also elucidates the origins of some of the more-extended pianistic figurations found in later similar display-works by Chopin, Mendelssohn and Saint-Saëns." (MusicWeb April 2015)

Tracks:

Introduction, Variations Et Presto Finale Sur Un Thème Favori De L'opéra Norma De Bellini, Op. 281

Grandes Variations De Bravura Sur Deux Motifs De L'opéra Fra Diavolo De D.F.E. Auber, Op. 232

Introduction, Variations Et Polacca Dals Le Style Brillant Sur La Cavatine Favorite 'Tu Vedrai La Sventurata' Chantée Par M. Rubini Dans L'opéra...

Introduction and Variations Brillantes Sur Le Marche Favori De L'opéra Gli Arabi Nelle Gallie De Pacini, Op. 234