Pei-I Wang, Samuel Gingher - Czerny: Romantic Piano Fantasies on Sir Walter Scott's Novels (2021) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Romantic Fantasy No. 1 on Sir Walter Scott's "Waverley", Op. 240
02. Romantic Fantasy No. 2 on Sir Walter Scott's "Guy Mannering", Op. 241
03. Romantic Fantasy No. 3 on Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe", Op. 242
04. Romantic Fantasy No. 4 on Sir Walter Scott's "Rob Roy", Op. 243


Carl Czerny’s instructional exercises may be his lasting legacy but there remain numerous largely forgotten pieces that reveal important elements of his compositional range. The four Romantic Fantasies named after Sir Walter Scott’s famous Waverley novels are piano duets of epic breadth. In them Czerny ingeniously develops popular Scottish melodies, including the use of the "Scotch snap", to generate a vivid programmatic quality that explores numerous genres. Scherzos, fugal passages, chorales and marches are all featured, and raise the music - full of beauty, virtuosity and unpredictability - to orchestral proportions.

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