Stanislav Khristenko - Krenek: Piano Music, Vol. 2 (2020) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Toccata und Chaconne, Op. 13: I. Toccata
02. Toccata und Chaconne, Op. 13: II. Chaconne
03. Kleine Suite, Op. 13a: I. Allemande
04. Kleine Suite, Op. 13a: II. Sarabande
05. Kleine Suite, Op. 13a: III. Gavotte
06. Kleine Suite, Op. 13a: IV. Waltzer
07. Kleine Suite, Op. 13a: V. Fuge
08. Kleine Suite, Op. 13a: VI. Foxtrott
09. Piano Suite No. 1, Op. 26 No. 1: I. Andante
10. Piano Suite No. 1, Op. 26 No. 1: II. Andante sostenuto
11. Piano Suite No. 1, Op. 26 No. 1: III. Allegretto
12. Piano Suite No. 1, Op. 26 No. 1: IV. Andante sostenuto
13. Piano Suite No. 1, Op. 26 No. 1: V. Allegretto
14. Piano Suite No. 2, Op. 26 No. 2: I. Allegro moderato
15. Piano Suite No. 2, Op. 26 No. 2: II. Andantino
16. Piano Suite No. 2, Op. 26 No. 2: III. Allegro agitato
17. Piano Suite No. 2, Op. 26 No. 2: IV. Adagio
18. Piano Suite No. 2, Op. 26 No. 2: V. Allegretto
19. Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 121: I. Allegretto con grazia
20. Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 121: II. Andante appassionato
21. Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 121: III. Introduction
22. 6 Vermessene, Op. 168: No. 1, —
23. 6 Vermessene, Op. 168: No. 2, —
24. 6 Vermessene, Op. 168: No. 3, —
25. 6 Vermessene, Op. 168: No. 4, —
26. 6 Vermessene, Op. 168: No. 5, —
27. 6 Vermessene, Op. 168: No. 6, —


This first extended survey of the piano music of Ernst Krenek (1900–92) continues with a range of works showing his craftsmanship and imagination – and humour. The early Toccata and Chaconne, Op. 13, has its origins in a joke intended to pull the legs of musicologists and music critics, but it develops into a massive contrapuntal essay of astonishing ambit. Krenek’s treatment of Baroque and contemporary dances in the three early suites reveal a fondness for learned whimsy – and that wry dispassion informs even the elegiac and brittle Fifth Sonata, written a quarter-century later in American exile. The closing Sechs Vermessene are kaleidoscopic miniatures with an improvised quality, as if advanced musical modernism were meeting the freest of free jazz.

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