Egon Kornauth: Piano Music, Volume One

Catalogue Number: TOCC0159
EAN: 5060113441591
Release Date: 4 March 2013
Duration: 68:56

Phantasie, Op. 10
Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 23
Kleine Suite, Op. 29
Präludium und Passacaglia, Op. 43
Fünf Klavierstücke, Op. 44

Jonathan Powell, piano

The music of the Czech-born Viennese composer Egon Kornauth (1891–1959) was once a staple of Austrian concert-halls, though it has largely been forgotten in the half-century since his death. In this pioneering recording Jonathan Powell uncovers the many strands that fed into Kornauth’s rich and full-blooded soundworld – dark, late-Romantic harmony, inventive counterpoint, rhythmic assiduity, a fondness for folk-music and, not least, a straightforward melodic charm.

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