Barbara Moser - My Personal Bach (2013)

Tracklist

01. Valse-improvisation sur le nom de Bach, FP 62
02. Scherzo No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 31
03. Piano Sonata No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 28
04. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C Minor, K. 457: I. Molto allegro
05. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C Minor, K. 457: II. Adagio
06. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C Minor, K. 457: III. Allegro assai
07. Piano Sonata in B Minor, S178/R21: Lento assai - Allegro energico - Grandioso -
08. Piano Sonata in B Minor, S178/R21: Andante sostenuto - Quasia adagio -
09. Piano Sonata in B Minor, S178/R21: Allegro energico -
10. Piano Sonata in B Minor, S178/R21: Allegro energico - Piu mosso -
11. Piano Sonata in B Minor, S178/R21: Presto - Prestissimo - Andante sostenuto - Allegro moderato - Lento assai
12. Flute Sonata in E-Flat Major, BWV 1031: II. Siciliano (arr. W. Kempff for piano)



The internationally acclaimed pianist Barbara Moser takes her bearings for this compilation from the famous B-A-C-H motif of Johann Sebastian Bach. Beginning with a waltz improvisation on the theme of B-A-C-H by Francis Poulenc, the keys of the following works represent the letters of the name: Chopin's Prelude in B-flat minor, Prokofiev's Sonata No. 3 in A minor op. 28, Mozart's Sonata C minor KV 457 and the famous B minor sonata by Franz Liszt. The project is rounded off by the Siciliano in G minor from the Flute Sonata BWV 1031 by the maestro Bach, portrayed here, in an arrangement by Wilhelm Kempff.

Apart from studying with Heinz Medjimorec at the University of Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna, she was also taught by Greta Kraus at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Further important teachers included Boris Bloch, Rudolf Buchbinder, Oleg Maisenberg and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. After being awarded many prizes and scholarships, her concert tours have taken her to most countries in Europe as well as Japan, South America, Canada and the USA, where she has worked with many conductors and orchestras of world renown. In 1994, she held her first concert with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and held her successful debut with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in 1999.
Her discography covers ten solo CDs, the last five of which were all released by Gramola, as well as several chamber music and song productions, including the duo CD Hommage à Mozart (violin: Joanna Madroszkiewicz), awarded the Wiener Flötenuhr for the best Mozart interpretation of 2002. The CD series Schuberts weltliches Chorwerk, released by Teldec, was awarded the renowned record prize Diapason d'Or.

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