Tchaikovsky - The Three Piano Sonatas - Helios: CDH55215 - download

Release Date: 27th Feb 2006
Catalogue No: CDH55215
Label: Helios
Length: 67 minutes

Pyotr Tchaikovsky; Leslie Howard: Sonata in F minor 'No 1'

Work length10:51

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Leslie Howard (piano)

Tchaikovsky: Piano Sonata No. 2 in C sharp minor, Op. 80

Work length27:12

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Leslie Howard (piano)

I. Allegro con fuoco

Track length8:48

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II. Andante

Track length5:58

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III. Scherzo: Allegro vivo

Track length6:04

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IV. Allegro vivo

Track length6:22

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Tchaikovsky: Grand Sonata in G major 'No 3', Op 37

Work length29:26

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Leslie Howard (piano)

I. Moderato e risoluto

Track length11:16

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II. Andante non troppo quasi moderato

Track length8:51

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III. Scherzo: Allegro giocoso

Track length2:54

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IV. Finale: Allegro vivace

Track length6:25

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Although only one, the last to be written, of Tchaikovsky's piano sonatas was published during his lifetime, there are, strictly speaking, three such works. The single-movement F minor work of 1863/4 was abandoned incomplete and untitled, though the composer was later to reuse some of the material; it here receives a rare performanceand its first recordingin a version completed by Leslie Howard. The second sonata to be composed (it was published posthumously, accounting for the apparently late Opus number) adopts the more typical four-movement structure, and while it would not do to make exaggerated claims for the work, it is a good deal better than its critics frequently allow. The third sonata, the only one to have remained firmly in the repertoire, is a major work whose felicities are numerous and memorable, offering the pianist an opportunity to revel in Tchaikovsky's broad palette of sound.

Tchaikovsky - The Three Piano Sonatas

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