Timon Altwegg - Swain: Piano Works, Vol. 1 (2022) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Sonata Saga: I. Misterioso
02. Sonata Saga: II. Lento tranquillo
03. Sonata Saga: III. Con molto energia
04. The Croon of the Sea
05. Piano Sonata No. 1 "The Skerries": I. Vigoroso
06. Piano Sonata No. 1 "The Skerries": II. Non troppo lento
07. Piano Sonata No. 1 "The Skerries": III. Moderato misterioso
08. An English Idyll
09. Piano Sonata No. 2 in F-Sharp Minor: I. Toccata
10. Piano Sonata No. 2 in F-Sharp Minor: II. Canzona pastorale
11. Piano Sonata No. 2 in F-Sharp Minor: III. Interlude
12. Piano Sonata No. 2 in F-Sharp Minor: IV. Pandean Rondo
13. The Red Flower



The English composer-pianist Freda Swain (1902–85) left a huge legacy of music that was largely unknown even while she was alive. Her compositions – hundreds of them, in a series of large boxes – found their way to the Swiss pianist Timon Altwegg, who begins his survey of her piano music with Swain’s three mighty sonatas. They are astonishing discoveries: big-boned, virtuosic pieces, full of wild energy, crossing from late Romanticism to a more modern idiom – from Rachmaninov to Bartók, so to speak – and with Bax’s fondness for Celtic seascapes and a hint of Debussyan Impressionism.

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