Fiachra Garvey - For The Piano (2012)

Tracklist

01. Barber: Piano Sonata Op.26, (i) Allegro Energico
02. Barber: Piano Sonata Op.26, (ii) Allegro vivace e leggero
03. Barber: Piano Sonata Op.26: (iii) Adagio mesto
04. Barber: Piano Sonata Op.26, (iv) Fuga: Allegro con spirito
05. Debussy: Pour le Piano, (i) Prelude
06. Debussy: Pour le Piano, (ii) Sarabande
07. Debussy: Pour le Piano, (iii) Toccata
08. Schumann: Fantasiestucke op 12, (i) Des Abends
09. Schumann: Fantasiestucke op 12, (ii) Aufschwung
10. Schumann: Fantasiestucke op 12, (iii) Warum?
11. Schumann: Fantasiestucke op 12, (iv) Grillen
12. Schumann: Fantasiestucke op 12, (v) In der Nacht
13. Schumann: Fantasiestucke op 12, (vi) Fabel
14. Schumann: Fantasiestucke op 12, (vii) Traumes Wirren
15. Schumann: Fantasiestucke op 12, (viii) Ende vom Lied
16. Barber: Nocturne Op.33

The works on For The Piano reveal a musical instinct mature beyond his years. Fiachra selected Samuel Barber’s bravura Piano Sonata and his elegiac Nocturne dedicated to John Field to bookend the two central works which are complementary highlights of the 19th and 20th century piano repertoire: Debussy’s Pour le Piano and Schumann’s Fantasiestucke.

The latter is a suite of eight pieces that tentatively relates to the Hero and Leander legend but more fundamentally is among the composer’s finest and most moving works for piano.

Fiachra Garvey is the top Irish prize winner at the AXA Dublin International Piano Competition. Fiachra was the recipient of the “Rising Star” award from the National Concert Hall, Dublin where he gave his debut main auditorium recital in 2011.

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