New Album Releases: GEORGE WALKER - FIVE PIANO SONATAS (Steven Beck)

Artist:
Steven Beck

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
53:14

Record Label:
Bridge Records

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Apple Music

Release Date
January 7, 2022

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Product Description: A sequence of piano sonatas offers one of the most direct looks into a composer’s most private and most practical obsessions, not to mention one easy way to measure the evolution (or lack of evolution) of their compositional techniques. Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and Schubert turned them out by the dozen. The romantics were much more cautious, with Chopin, Brahms, Schumann writing only three apiece. In the 20th century, certain Russians regained ground in terms of sheer numbers, such as Mednter (14), Scriabin (10), Prokofiev (9) and Ustvolskaya (6). As for some prominent Americans, Copland, Carter and Barber wrote one, Ives wrote two, Sessions three and Wuorinen four. George Walker is one of the few leading American composers of the 20th century to produce as many as five piano sonatas. Taken together, they securely chart a lifetime of stylistic change. Walker managed many other feats, a number of them connected to being the first black person to break through various glass ceilings: the first to be accepted at the Curtis Institute of Music, first to study with Nadia Boulanger and the first to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music. Walker is also one of the only major composer-pianists to have recorded worthy performances of virtuoso standard repertoire including Beethoven’s “Emperor Concerto” and the Brahms second piano concerto.

TRACK LIST:

1 . Piano Sonata No. 1: I. Allegro energico (6:12)

2 . Piano Sonata No. 1: II. Theme & 6 .Variations (4:21)

3 . Piano Sonata No. 1: III. Allegro con brio (3:51)

4 . Piano Sonata No. 2: I. Theme & 10 .Variations (2:26)

5 . Piano Sonata No. 2: II. Presto (1:12)

6 . Piano Sonata No. 2: III. Adagio (3:18)

7 . Piano Sonata No. 2: IV. Allegretto tranquillo (2:04)

8 . Piano Sonata No. 3: I. Fantoms (3:22)

9 . Piano Sonata No. 3: II. Bell (2:09)

10 . Piano Sonata No. 3: III. Choral & Fughetta (6:15)

11 . Piano Sonata No. 4: I. Maestoso (7:11)

12 . Piano Sonata No. 4: II. Tranquillo (6:05)

13 . Piano Sonata No. 5 . (4:47)

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