Weinberger: Piano Music Gottlieb Wallisch

• Jaromír Weinberger (1896 - 1967): Sarabande for Piano:
• 1 Weinberger: Sarabande for Piano 06:30
• Piano Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 4:
• 2 Weinberger: Piano Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 4: I. Allegro passionato 07:49
• 3 Weinberger: Piano Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 4: II. Vivo ironicamente 04:26
• 4 Weinberger: Piano Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 4: III. Introduzione. Moderato - Fuga. Largo 07:25
• Piano Sonata No. 3 in G Major "Spinet Sonata":
• 5 Weinberger: Piano Sonata No. 3 in G Major "Spinet Sonata": I. Andantino 06:33
• 6 Weinberger: Piano Sonata No. 3 in G Major "Spinet Sonata": II. Menuett. Allegro giusto 05:37
• 7 Weinberger: Piano Sonata No. 3 in G Major "Spinet Sonata": III. Finale. Rondo 04:36
• Pavane pour dulcinea de toboso:
• 8 Weinberger: Pavane pour dulcinea de toboso 03:40
• Valses nobles for Piano:
• 9 Weinberger: Valses nobles for Piano 03:44
• Rytiny:
• 10 Weinberger: Rytiny: No. 1, Prelude & Fugue 04:25
• 11 Weinberger: Rytiny: No. 2, Prelude & Fugue 03:12
• 12 Weinberger: Rytiny: No. 3, Prelude & Fugue 02:14
• 13 Weinberger: Rytiny: No. 4, Prelude & Fugue 04:28
• 14 Weinberger: Rytiny: No. 5, Prelude & Fugue 03:37
• Mi-La-Do:
• 15 Weinberger: Mi-La-Do 00:39
• Švanda dudák (Excerpts Arr. G. Blasser for Piano):
• 16 Weinberger: Švanda dudák (Excerpts Arr. G. Blasser for Piano): I. Furiant 02:29
• 17 Weinberger: Švanda dudák (Excerpts Arr. G. Blasser for Piano): II. Böhmischer Tanz 02:13
• 18 Weinberger: Švanda dudák (Excerpts Arr. G. Blasser for Piano): III. Polka 02:18
• Total Runtime 01:15:55

Info for Weinberger: Piano Music

"Prague-born composer Jaromír Weinberger, a prodigy of near-Mozartian proportions, started the piano at the age of five and was composing by his tenth year. A student of Vítĕzslav Novák and Max Reger, he is the author of more than 100 works in all genres – the most famous being his 1927 hit⁠-⁠opera Švanda Dudák (‘Schwanda the Bagpiper’). While some of his orchestral masterpieces have been receiving the right attention, curiously his unjustly neglected piano music appears here in a series of world première recordings, which give justice to his great compositional variety, depth and contrapuntal mastery." (Gottlieb Wallisch)

The international success of Weinberger’s opera Schwanda the Bagpiper in 1927 has obscured a sequence of piano works written when the composer was still in his teens. The Second and Third Piano Sonatas form a commanding pair, both written in 1915 – the former autobiographical, playful and dark – the latter neo⁠-⁠Classical with Francophile elements. Elsewhere one can admire his use of 16th⁠-⁠century dance forms, his melodic gifts in the Valses Nobles, and his technical command of preludes and fugues in Gravures. The three arrangements from Schwanda show his imperishable use of Bohemian dance forms.

Gottlieb Wallisch, piano

Gottlieb Wallisch
Born in Vienna, Gottlieb Wallisch first appeared on the concert platform when he was seven years old, and at the age of twelve made his debut in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein. A concert directed by Yehudi Menuhin in 1996 launched Wallisch’s international career: accompanied by the Sinfonia Varsovia, the seventeen-yearold pianist performed Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto.

Since then Wallisch has received invitations to the world’s most prestigious concert halls and festivals including Carnegie Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, the Cologne Philharmonie, the Tonhalle Zurich, and the NCPA in Beijing, also the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Beethovenfest in Bonn, the Festivals of Lucerne and Salzburg, December Nights in Moscow, and the Singapore Arts Festival. Conductors with whom he has performed as a soloist include Giuseppe Sinopoli, Sir Neville Marriner, Dennis Russell Davies, Kirill Petrenko, Louis Langrée, Lawrence Foster, Christopher Hogwood, Martin Haselböck and Bruno Weil.

Orchestras he has performed with include the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, the Festival Strings Lucerne, the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra in Budapest, the Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra in Los Angeles, and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra.

He has made numerous recordings for labels such as LINN records, Deutsche Grammophon and Alpha Classics. In 2012 Steinway & Sons added his name to their roster of Steinway Artists. In 2010 Gottlieb Wallisch became the youngest professor at the Geneva University for Music; the Berlin University of Arts (UdK Berlin) named him professor for piano in 2016.

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