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BAND/ARTIST: Costantino Mastroprimiano
- Title: Kraus: Complete Piano Music
- Year Of Release: 2021
- Label: Brilliant Classics
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless / flac 24bits - 96.0kHz
- Total Time: 01:19:46
- Total Size: 293 mb / 1.25 gb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Kraus 2 Neue Kuriose Minuetten, VB 190
02. Kraus Rondo in F Major, VB 191
03. Kraus Svensk Dans, VB 192
04. Kraus Thema con variazione, VB 193
05. Kraus Larghetto, VB 194
06. Kraus Sonata in E-Flat Major, VB 195 I. Allegro Moderato
07. Kraus Sonata in E-Flat Major, VB 195 II. Andante con Variazione
08. Kraus Sonata in E-Flat Major, VB 195 III. Allegro ma non troppo Presto
09. Kraus Sonata in E Major, VB 196 I. Vivace
10. Kraus Sonata in E Major, VB 196 II. Adagio
11. Kraus Sonata in E Major, VB 196 III. Allegretto - Adagio - Arioso
12. Kraus Sonata in E Major, VB 196 IV. Andante con Variazione
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Joseph Martin Kraus, regarded in his lifetime (1756–1792) as one of the world’s six most formidable composers, has like many other contemporaries since languished in the historical shadow of Mozart. Kraus was hailed by none other than Joseph Haydn as Mozart’s equal in terms of creativity and genius but had a career more like Haydn’s and was more of a polymath. Born in central Germany, he studied composition in Mannheim, Mainz, Erfurt and Göttingen. In 1778 he decided on a career in music and emigrated to Sweden, where he became Vice-Kapellmeister at the court of Gustav III in 1781 and Kapellmeister in Stockholm in 1788.
Trained as a violinist (who, like Mozart, preferred the viola), he nonetheless was a talented pianist. Francisco de Miranda, a nobleman on a grand tour in 1787, described Kraus playing the fortepiano ‘like an angel’. Sadly, the composer left relatively few works for the keyboard. This disc provides a thorough exploration of these works, from the satirical to the sublime, the expansive to the perfunctory, with the real tours de force being the two fortepiano sonatas, both issued in 1788 by Swedish publisher Olof Ålström.
Though limited in number, these works for solo keyboard (almost certainly composed for the fortepiano) represent the variety and originality that are among Kraus’s musical trademarks. The two sonatas in particular challenge the technical limits of the instrument, requiring both dexterity and interpretive ability and often foreshadowing the piano music of thirty years hence in content and scope.
01. Kraus 2 Neue Kuriose Minuetten, VB 190
02. Kraus Rondo in F Major, VB 191
03. Kraus Svensk Dans, VB 192
04. Kraus Thema con variazione, VB 193
05. Kraus Larghetto, VB 194
06. Kraus Sonata in E-Flat Major, VB 195 I. Allegro Moderato
07. Kraus Sonata in E-Flat Major, VB 195 II. Andante con Variazione
08. Kraus Sonata in E-Flat Major, VB 195 III. Allegro ma non troppo Presto
09. Kraus Sonata in E Major, VB 196 I. Vivace
10. Kraus Sonata in E Major, VB 196 II. Adagio
11. Kraus Sonata in E Major, VB 196 III. Allegretto - Adagio - Arioso
12. Kraus Sonata in E Major, VB 196 IV. Andante con Variazione
Joseph Martin Kraus, regarded in his lifetime (1756–1792) as one of the world’s six most formidable composers, has like many other contemporaries since languished in the historical shadow of Mozart. Kraus was hailed by none other than Joseph Haydn as Mozart’s equal in terms of creativity and genius but had a career more like Haydn’s and was more of a polymath. Born in central Germany, he studied composition in Mannheim, Mainz, Erfurt and Göttingen. In 1778 he decided on a career in music and emigrated to Sweden, where he became Vice-Kapellmeister at the court of Gustav III in 1781 and Kapellmeister in Stockholm in 1788.
Trained as a violinist (who, like Mozart, preferred the viola), he nonetheless was a talented pianist. Francisco de Miranda, a nobleman on a grand tour in 1787, described Kraus playing the fortepiano ‘like an angel’. Sadly, the composer left relatively few works for the keyboard. This disc provides a thorough exploration of these works, from the satirical to the sublime, the expansive to the perfunctory, with the real tours de force being the two fortepiano sonatas, both issued in 1788 by Swedish publisher Olof Ålström.
Though limited in number, these works for solo keyboard (almost certainly composed for the fortepiano) represent the variety and originality that are among Kraus’s musical trademarks. The two sonatas in particular challenge the technical limits of the instrument, requiring both dexterity and interpretive ability and often foreshadowing the piano music of thirty years hence in content and scope.
Year 2021 | Classical | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl
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