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Alexander Goldenweiser: Piano Music, Volume One
Catalogue Number: TOCC0044
Skazka (Folk Tale), Op. 39 Jonathan Powell, piano Alexander Goldenweiser (1875–1961) is remembered as a major pianist, one of the founders of the Russian school of playing, and a friend of Rachmaninov, Scriabin and Tolstoy. He was also a prolific composer but rarely played his own works in public. His Contrapuntal Sketches, written in the early 1930s, are probably the first Russian cycle of polyphonic pieces encompassing all the major and minor keys; they fuse Goldenweiser’s compositional and pianistic virtuosity with an empathy for Russian folksong. The Sonata-Fantasia presents other, contrasting facets of his complex personality: although demonstrating his link to the Russian Romantics, it is resolutely modern and original. Jonathan Powell studied with one of Goldenweiser’s students, Sulamita Aronovsky. Booklet texts (PDF) |
Track Listing, MP3 Downloads and Streaming Samples
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| 1 | Skazka (Folk Tale), Op. 39 (1961) Alexander Goldenweiser, composer Jonathan Powell, piano (first recording) |
7:21 |
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| 2 | Sonata-fantaziya, Op. 37 (1961) Alexander Goldenweiser, composer Jonathan Powell, piano (first recording) |
12:38 |
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| 3-26 | Kontrapunkticheskiye ėskizï (Contrapuntal Sketches), Op. 12 (1961) Alexander Goldenweiser, composer Jonathan Powell, piano (first recording) |
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| 3 | No. 1, Prelude: Moderato, C major | 1:31 |
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| 4 | No. 2, Fugue: Andante, C minor | 2:03 |
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| 5 | No. 3, Canon: Tranquillo, D flat major | 1:24 |
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| 6 | No. 4, Prelude: Adagio, C sharp minor | 1:57 |
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| 7 | No. 5, Fugue: Allegro moderato, D major | 1:50 |
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| 8 | No. 6, Canon: Allegro non troppo, D minor | 1:05 |
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| 9 | No. 7, Prelude: Andante con moto, E flat major | 2:01 |
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| 10 | No. 8, Fugue: Andante sostenuto, E flat minor | 3:10 |
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| 11 | No. 9, Canon: Allegro non troppo, E major | 0:54 |
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| 12 | No. 10, Prelude: Con moto, E minor | 1:44 |
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| 13 | No. 11, Fugue: Allegro moderato, F major | 1:41 |
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| 14 | No. 12, Canon: Andante espressivo, F minor | 2:53 |
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| 15 | No. 13, Prelude: Andante non troppo, F sharp minor | 2:54 |
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| 16 | No. 14, Fugue: Andante, F sharp minor | 3:00 |
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| 17 | No. 15, Canon: Con moto, scherzando, G major | 1:03 |
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| 18 | No. 16, Prelude: Moderato, G minor | 2:59 |
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| 19 | No. 17, Fugue: Molto tranquillo, A flat major | 4:06 |
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| 20 | No. 18, Canon: Allegretto, G sharp minor | 1:03 |
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| 21 | No. 19, Prelude: Tempo risoluto, A major | 2:26 |
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| 22 | No. 20, Fugue: Andante con poco mosso, A minor | 4:01 |
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| 23 | No. 21, Canon: Andante, B flat major | 3:23 |
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| 24 | No. 22, Prelude: Molto tranquillo, B flat minor | 4:54 |
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| 25 | No. 23, Fugue: Allegro non troppo, B major | 2:08 |
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| 26 | No. 24, Canon: Andante molto tranquillo, B minor | 3:47 |
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Artists
Alexander Goldenweiser, composer
Jonathan Powell, piano
[credit: Malcolm Crowthers]
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