Description
A highly acclaimed album of the virtuosic and the sublime, setting the liquid beauty of Ravel against the pyrotechnics of Reger and Liszt.
(Also on GM Recordings, hear Frederick Moyer on Bach: Partita Number 5 in G Major, , Rachmaninoff: Corelli Variations, Three Centuries Live (works by Haydn, Brahms, Prokofiev), Mendelssohn: Suite of Seven Pieces, , and Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition.)
”"Vital, lustrous, sizzling... This nourishing program could scarcely be more brilliantly played."
—New Yorker
PERFORMERS
Frederick Moyer, piano
PROGRAM
Max Reger: Four Studies for the Left Hand
1. Scherzo 2:57
2. Humoreske 1:24
3. Romanze 5:29
4. Präludium und Fuge 6:54
George Walker: Piano Sonata Number 4 (1985)
5. I. 7:50
6. II. 6:39
Maurice Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
7. I. 1:17 11. V. 1:23
8. II. 2:27 12. VI. 0:39
9. III. 1:18 13. VII. 2:27
10. IV. 1:05 14. VIII. 4:26
Franz Liszt/Ferruccio Busoni:
Three Etudes after the Grand Etudes of Paganini
15. #5 La Chasse 3:27
16. #4 Arpeggio 2:13
17. #3 La Campanella 4:59
Recorded in December 1985 in Houghton Chapel at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Producer: Gunther Schuller
ALSO AVAILABLE
for downloads and streaming on Amazon as well as other digital sites.
