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8 of 36 tracks have a preview · 6 works · 116:01

1 Piano Sonata Opus 1 Alban Berg 13:49
Three Piano Pieces Opus 11Arnold Schoenberg 3 movements17:40
1. 2 i. Mässige 4:38
2. 3 ii. Mässige 9:55
3. 4 iii. Bewegte 3:07
Fourteen Bagatelles Opus 6Béla Bartók 14 movements26:41
1. 5 Allegro giocoso 1:33
2. 6 Andante :47
3. 7 Grave :46
4. 8 Vivo 1:05
5. 9 Lento 1:14
6. 10 Allegretto molto capriccioso 1:46
7. 11 Andante sostenuto 2:05
8. 12 Andante grazioso 2:00
9. 13 Allegro 2:23
10. 14 Allegro molto rubato 2:34
11. 15 Molto sostenuto 2:09
12. 16 Rubato 3:33
13. 17 Lento funebre (Elle est morte) 2:30
14. 18 Valse (Ma mie qui danse) 2:16
201 Piano Sonata Opus 1 Alban Berg [Paul Draper Remix] 13:49
Three Piano Pieces Opus 11Arnold Schoenberg 3 movements17:38
1. 202 i. Mässige [Paul Draper Remix] 4:38
2. 203 ii. Mässige [Paul Draper Remix] 9:44
3. 204 iii. Bewegte [Paul Draper Remix] 3:16
Fourteen Bagatelles Opus 6Béla Bartók 14 movements26:24
1. 205 Allegro giocoso [Paul Draper Remix] 1:21
2. 206 Andante [Paul Draper Remix] :47
3. 207 Grave [Paul Draper Remix] :46
4. 208 Vivo [Paul Draper Remix] 1:03
5. 209 Lento [Paul Draper Remix] 1:19
6. 210 Allegretto molto capriccioso [Paul Draper Remix] 1:44
7. 211 Andante sostenuto [Paul Draper Remix] 2:04
8. 212 Andante grazioso [Paul Draper Remix] 2:00
9. 213 Allegro [Paul Draper Remix] 2:21
10. 214 Allegro molto rubato [Paul Draper Remix] 2:33
11. 215 Molto sostenuto [Paul Draper Remix] 2:08
12. 216 Rubato [Paul Draper Remix] 3:34
13. 217 Lento funebre (Elle est morte) [Paul Draper Remix] 2:28
14. 218 Valse (Ma mie qui danse) [Paul Draper Remix] 2:16

The first “Horizontal” disc is a conventional edited piano recording. The second “Vertical” disc brings the music forward a hundred years by employing a multi-track approach to the mix.

Microphones were placed close to the piano, on stage and out in the hall. By switching and mixing these perspectives the music is creatively re-interpreted through a wide range of timbral and spatial effects.

The programme pairs landmark works by Berg, Schoenberg and Bartók: Berg’s one-movement Piano Sonata Op. 1, Schoenberg’s Three Piano Pieces Op. 11, and Bartók’s Fourteen Bagatelles Op. 6.

Artists

Stephen Emmerson

piano

Stephen Emmerson is an Australian pianist and teacher based in Brisbane, on the staff of the Queensland Conservatorium since 1987. His performing life centres on solo piano and fortepiano and, above all, chamber music.

Alban Berg

composer

Alban Berg joined late-Romantic lyricism to twelve-tone method in a small, intense body of work. Operas, chamber scores and songs carry expressionist feeling inside tightly organised forms, from the early Piano Sonata to the Four Pieces for clarinet and piano.

Arnold Schoenberg

composer

Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) was an Austrian-American modernist composer who pioneered atonality and twelve-tone composition. His methods reshaped harmony and musical coherence in the twentieth century.

Béla Bartók

composer

Béla Bartók forged a modernist language from peasant song, asymmetrical dance rhythms and pungent harmony. His string quartets, piano bagatelles and graded teaching pieces still sound raw, lucid and fiercely alive.