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The Piano - The Ultimate Piano Collection of the Century (100CD)
Whether you agree with the guitarist Andres Segovia, who remarked that ‘the piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth’, or with the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, for whom the piano was ‘a little orchestra in itself’, never has so comprehensive a sound-history of the instrument been assembled in a single, commercial set as this new Piano 100 box from Brilliant Classics.
Opening with the godfather of the keyboard sonata, Domenico Scarlatti, and closing with one of the great devotional masterpieces of the last century, Messiaen’s Vingt Regards, Piano 100 takes in, along the way, the complete sonatas of Mozart, Beethoven and Scriabin, the complete solo-piano music of Chopin, Debussy and Ravel, warhorses like Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, masterpieces of the miniature by Grieg and Janacek, conservative studies by Czerny and wacky journeys into the instrument’s far reaches with Cage.
All of pianistic life is here, and among your guides are some of the great names to have touched the keyboard in the recording era: Alfred Brendel, Emil Gilels and Sviatoslav Richter.
Full booklet notes included on a bonus CD-ROM Piano scores in PDF format for the majority of music on the disc on a bonus DVD-ROM specially compiled for this issue by CDSheetmusic.com ( Brilliant Classics )
Scarlatti: 18 Klaviersonaten
Haydn: 20 Klaviersonaten
Mozart: Klaviersonaten Nr. 1-18
Clementi: 4 Klaviersonaten, Rondo B-Dur
Beethoven: Klaviersonaten Nr. 1-32, Diabelli-Variationen
Czerny: Etuden
Weber: Klaviersonaten
Field: Nocturnes (Gesamtaufnahme)
Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte
Chopin: Samtliche Klavierwerke
Schumann: Kreisleriana, Kinderszenen, Symphonische Etuden, Carnaval
Liszt: Klaviersonate h-moll, Opern-Paraphrasen, Etudes d'execution transcendante
Smetana: Tschechische Tanze
Brahms: Klaviersonaten, Paganini-Variationen, Balladen, Spate Klavierwerke
Janacek: Auf verwachsenem Pfad
Mussorgsky: Bilder einer Ausstellung
Tschaikovsky: Die Jahreszeiten fur Klavier
Grieg: Lyrische Stucke (Gesamtaufnahme)
Albeniz: Iberia
Faure: Barcarolles
Debussy: Samtliche Klavierwerke
Scriabin: Klaviersonaten Nr. 1-10
Rachmaninoff: Klaviersonaten, Preludes, Etuden
Ravel: Samtliche Klavierwerke
Prokofiev: Klaviersonaten
Cage: Sonaten fur prapariertes Klavier
Messiaen: Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jesus
Works of Alkan, Dvorak, Franck, Balakireff, Satie, Falla, Medtner, Bartok
Alfred Brendel, Hakon Austbo, Ronald Brautigam, Louis Lortie, Helene Grimaud
Nikolai Lugansky, Hamish Milne, Karin Lechner, Bart van Oort, Klara Wurtz
Pieter van Winkel, Emil Gilels, Svjatoslav Richter u. a.
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