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Impromptu

A collection of Impromptus, Fantasies and Impressions for piano solo, played by Brian Chapman. Although only two pieces carry the title Impromptu, many of the other works share an improvisatory quality.

Brian Chapmanpiano
  • CatalogueMCD 426
  • Released2009

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12 works

  1. 1 Impromptu in G flat, Op. 90, No. 3 Franz Schubert
  2. 2 Impromptu in A flat, Op. 142, No. 2 Franz Schubert
  3. 3 Fantasia in D minor, K. 397 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  4. 4 Minuet in D, K. 355/576b Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  5. Sonata in G major, Op. 49, No. 2Ludwig van Beethoven 2 movements
    1. 5 Allegro, ma non troppo
    2. 6 Tempo di minuetto
  6. 7 Minuet in G, WoO 10, No. 2 Ludwig van Beethoven
  7. Sonata quasi una fantasia in E flat, Op. 27, No. 1Ludwig van Beethoven 4 movements
    1. 8 Andante – Allegro – Tempo I
    2. 9 Allegro molto e vivace
    3. 10 Adagio con espressione
    4. 11 Allegro vivace – Tempo I – Presto
  8. 12 Goyescas Enrique Granados The Maiden and the Nightingale
  9. 13 Iberia, Book III Isaac Albéniz El Albaicín
  10. 14 Suite bergamasque Claude Debussy Clair de lune
  11. Preludes, Book 1Claude Debussy 3 movements
    1. 15 Footsteps in the snow
    2. 16 The girl with the flaxen hair
    3. 17 The engulfed cathedral
  12. 18 Estampes Claude Debussy Gardens under rain

Beethoven's simply constructed 'easy' sonata may well have been a written-out improvisation, published years later when encroaching deafness made composition and publication more vital than public performance. We might fairly call 'doodling' the manner of commencement of Mozart's Fantasia in D minor, the two Spanish pieces and the first four of the Debussy selections.

Artists

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Brian Chapman

piano

Born in England in 1944, Brian Chapman studied piano in Brisbane with Nora Baird from 1952, and in Melbourne from 1954 with Lindsay Biggins, J.A. Steele and Roy Shepherd. After obtaining his AMusA performing diploma in 1958, he discontinued piano lessons the following year for five years, returning to study with Roy Shepherd in 1964.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Enrique Granados

composer

Enrique Granados was born in Lérida in 1867. He studied the piano and composition in Barcelona and then in Paris, returning to Barcelona in 1889, and won distinction as a pianist and popularity in Spain with his zarzuelas and piano music.

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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.

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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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Categories
Classical, Keyboard
Genre
Romantic & Impressionist
Musical work copyright
© 2009 Brian Chapman
Sound recording copyright
℗ 2009 Move Records
Catalogue
MCD 426
EAN
9314574042627

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