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Complete Piano Sonatas 7 Features
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Sonata per fortepiano op 47 n.1 in RE
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Sonata per fortepiano op 47 n.2 in SOL
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Sonata per fortepiano op 64 in LAb 'Retour a Paris
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Complete piano sonatas vol.7Sonata per fortepiano op 47 n.1 in RESonata per fortepiano op 47 n.2 in SOLSonata per fortepiano op 64 in LAb 'Retour a Paris
About Complete Piano Sonatas 7
The Dussek bandwagon rolls on, and collectors of this revelatory series will not hesitate to pick up the penultimate volume, which continues to shed light on this Czech contemporary of Beethoven by playing his most dazzlingly varied music on the kind of instruments he wrote it for. With volume 7 we have reached a pair of opus numbers which offer typical contrasts within Dusseks idiom. The pair of Op.47 sonatas belong to the genre of the Sonate facile easy sonatas, uncomplicated technically and musically, much like Beethovens Op.49, published three years later. The finale of Op.47 No.1 is a Rondo à la Militaire which became a famous hit of the period. Indeed, this was a time when Dussek reached the zenith of his fame as performer and composer, with his works and playing conquering the entire continent from England to Russia, and the Op.47 Sonatas were first published in London, despite the composer having fled the capital in disgrace, leaving behind serious debts and a failing marriage. The great Sonata Op.64, Le Retour à Paris, is, by contrast, one of Dusseks most expansive and ambitious works. Composed following his return to the French capital in 1807 after the death of his patron, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, it is not so much a programmatic sonata as an evocation of Dusseks feelings on his return to the city which he had left just before the French Revolution in 1789. After the bittersweet impressions of the city irrevocably changed by the Revolution and Napoleons ascent in the first two movements, a feeling of despair and attempts of reconciliation with fate can be heard in the Scherzo, giving way to the new happy and carefree way of life in the witty final rondo. Zvi Meniker is a Russian-born Israeli harpsichordist, organist, fortepianist and conductor, now a professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Hannover. He has made a speciality of studying, teaching and performing the piano music of early Romantics such as Mendelssohn, Chopin and indeed Dussek.
