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1 Sonata in A K331 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Alla Turca 3:28
2 Impromptu Opus 90 Franz Schubert No. 3 in G♭ 5:45
3 Sonata in B minor K27 L449 Domenico Scarlatti 2:53
4 Sonata in C K159 L104 Domenico Scarlatti 2:35
5 Moments Musicaux Opus 94 Franz Schubert No. 6 in A♭ 7:32
6 Polonaise in C sharp minor Opus 26 Frédéric Chopin No. 1 8:20
7 Klavierstück für Elise WoO 59 Ludwig van Beethoven 3:17
8 Songs without Words Opus 19 Felix Mendelssohn No. 4 in A 2:22
9 Consolation Franz Liszt No. 3 in D♭ 4:16
10 Malagueña Opus 165 Isaac Albéniz No. 3 4:13
11 Suite Bergamasque Claude Debussy Clair de Lune 5:31
12 Fantasie in D minor K397 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 6:04
13 Nocturne in A♭ Opus 31 Frédéric Chopin No. 2 6:57
14 Prelude and Fugue in C Book 1, BWV 846 Johann Sebastian Bach 4:08
15 Sevilla from Suite Española, Opus 47 Isaac Albéniz No. 3 5:18

The programme includes Mozart’s Alla Turca, Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in C from the ‘48’, Liszt’s Consolation, Albéniz’s Sevilla, Beethoven’s Klavierstück für Elise, Debussy’s Clair de Lune, Schubert’s Impromptu, and Chopin’s Nocturne in A flat and Polonaise in C sharp minor, among other works.

Recorded at Melba Hall on Farren-Price’s Steinway, it moves from Bach and Scarlatti through Schubert, Chopin and Liszt to Albéniz’s Spanish dances.

Reviews

Majestic, magnetic, delicate, revealing, scintillating and seductive... it rewards, enhances and reflects every mood.

— Beverley Dunn

… a sensitive artist and a virtuoso of top rank … he demonstrated a perfect balance between the sound and the expression of the music … definitely a pianist of great distinction.

— Concert reviews, Copenhagen

Artists

Ronald Farren-Price

piano

Ronald Farren-Price is an Australian concert pianist of rare artistry, sensitivity and virtuosity. Clarity of expression and firmness of touch are the hallmarks of his style, which brings bold nobility to each performance.

Isaac Albéniz

composer

Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909) was a Spanish pianist and composer whose piano music, steeped in folk idioms, helped give Spanish art music a distinctive national voice.

Johann Sebastian Bach

composer

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) was a German composer and organist of the late Baroque. His sacred and secular music for choir, orchestra, organ and solo instruments remains among the foundations of the Western concert and church repertory.

Ludwig van Beethoven

composer

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) was a German composer and pianist whose music stands at the centre of the Western classical tradition, bridging the Classical and Romantic eras.

Frédéric Chopin

composer

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the early Romantic period. He wrote almost exclusively for the piano and remains one of its defining poetic voices.

Claude Debussy

composer

Claude Debussy (1862–1918) was a French composer whose harmony, colour and flexible sense of key reshaped European music at the turn of the twentieth century. Piano, orchestral and chamber works from his maturity remain central to the repertoire.

Franz Liszt

composer

Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic era. His vast output reshaped piano technique, invented the symphonic poem and pushed harmony toward the twentieth century.

Felix Mendelssohn

composer

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847) was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. His works include symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano music and chamber music.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

composer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He wrote over 600 works, many of them pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic and choral music, and remains among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.

Domenico Scarlatti

composer

Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757) was an Italian composer who spent much of his career at the Portuguese and Spanish courts. He is known almost exclusively for his 555 keyboard sonatas.

Franz Schubert

composer

Franz Schubert (1797–1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. In only thirty-one years he left a vast body of work, including over six hundred Lieder, and remains among the most frequently performed composers.

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Performers

Ronald Farren-Price · piano

Technical credits

Recording Engineer Martin Wright
Venue Melba Hall
Credit Dieter Müller

Details

List price: $25.00 AUD
Total playing time: 72 minutes 39 seconds
Release date: 1993
Category: Classical
Genres: Romantic & Impressionist, Baroque
Catalogue: MD 3117
EAN: 9314574311723

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