Ries: Romantic Variations, Fantasies and a Rondo
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FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Romantic Variations, Fantasies and a Rondo
Michael Tsalka (fortepiano)
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 1 September 2016
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A celebrated student of Beethoven, virtuoso pianist Ferdinand Ries established an innovative technical approach to the interpretation of the fortepiano. The decade he spent in London (1813-24) was his most successful. The majority of the variation sets, fantasies and rondos on this recording were composed then.
The emergence of the new square pianos created a hunger for domestic music-making and Ries responded with catchy variations on popular themes and technically challenging fantasias that gave full rein to his musical imagination. They add another dimension to the appreciation of the man Robert Schumann praised for his 'remarkable originality'.
"Tsalka has a fine sense of the rhetoric of ornamental gestures and shapes the transitional passages well; he's effective, too, in his use of the special coloristic qualities of his instruments." Fanfare
Tracks:
Variations in F major on a Beloved French Song 'La Sentinelle', Op. 105 No. 1
The Dream, Op. 49
Variations in C major on a Favourite Scotch Air 'The Old Highland Laddie', Op. 105 No. 2
Fantasy for Piano after Schiller's Poem 'Resignation' Op. 109
Variations in A minor on a Cossack Song, Op. 40 No. 1
Introduction and Rondo in E flat majhor 'a la Zingaresco', Op. 184
