Shai Wosner plays Schoenberg & Brahms

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...if Brahms and Schoenberg may strike conservative listeners as odd bedfellows, Shai Wosner, a young Israeli pianist, does not see any dichotomy between "old" and "new" music, but an evolutionary... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010 More…

Release Date: 31st Aug 2010
Catalogue No: ONYX4055
Label: Onyx
Length: 77 minutes

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Schoenberg: Suite for Piano, Op. 25

Work length15:29

$5.00

$7.00

Shai Wosner

I. Präludium

Track length0:59

$1.00

$1.40

II. Gavotte - Musette

Track length3:57

$1.00

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III. Intermezzo

Track length3:48

$1.00

$1.40

IV. Menuet - Trio

Track length3:47

$1.00

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V. Gigue

Track length2:58

$1.00

$1.40

Brahms: 7 Fantasien, Op. 116: I. Capriccio - Presto energico

Work length2:05

$1.00

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Shai Wosner

Schoenberg: 6 kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19: I. Leicht, zart

Work length1:24

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Shai Wosner

Brahms: 7 Fantasien, Op. 116: II. Intermezzo - Andante

Work length3:33

$1.00

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Shai Wosner

Schoenberg: 6 kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19: II. Langsam

Work length1:12

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$1.40

Shai Wosner

Brahms: 7 Fantasien, Op. 116: III. Capriccio - Allegro passionato

Work length2:53

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Schoenberg: 6 kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19: III. Sehr langsame

Work length0:51

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Excerpt, Brahms: Fantasies (7 piano pieces), Op. 116

Work length11:44

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IV. Intermezzo - Adagio

Track length5:13

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V. Intermezzo - Andante con grazia ed intissimo sentimento

Track length3:08

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VI. Intermezzo - Andantino teneramente

Track length3:23

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Excerpt, Schoenberg: Kleine Klavierstücke (6), Op. 19

Work length0:54

$2.00

$2.80

Shai Wosner

IV. Rasch, aber leicht

Track length0:24

$1.00

$1.40

V. Etwas rasch

Track length0:30

$1.00

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Brahms: 7 Fantasien, Op. 116: VII. Capriccio - Allegro agitato

Work length2:16

$1.00

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Shai Wosner

Schoenberg: 6 kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19: VI. Sehr langsam

Work length1:43

$1.00

$1.40

Shai Wosner

Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24

Work length26:35

Album only

Shai Wosner

Handel: Suite in B-Flat Major, HWV 434

Work length7:05

$1.50

$2.10

Shai Wosner

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The debut recording from Shai Wosner.

Wosner continues to attract international recognition for his exceptional artistry, musical integrity and creative insight.

With imaginative programming that communicates his intellectual curiosity, Wosner performs a wide-ranging repertoire from Mozart and Beethoven to Ligeti and composers of his own generation. Wosner’s virtuosity and perceptiveness have increasingly made him a favourite among audiences and critics alike.

In 2005, Wosner won an Avery Fisher Career Grant. In the same year, he received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. He also continues his extensive performing and recording activity as a BBC New Generation Artist, which he was named in September 2007. He is in demand with orchestras and conductors worldwide.

Both Brahms and Schoenberg were indebted to the musical styles of earlier generations – and not just the mighty shadow of Beethoven. The baroque period intrigued both composers, and it is interesting to note that two of their most important works for solo piano – works in which they expressed their mature style and authority – are inspired by the baroque.

Shai Wosner calls the Suite by Schoenberg and the Handel Variations by Brahms ‘declarations of independence’. The Schoenberg was his first purely 12-tone work, and the Brahms was his first wholly successful solo piano work after the three early sonatas, yet both take their inspiration from the baroque period.

Brahms the revolutionary is highlighted by Wosner on this CD by interweaving the late op.116 Fantasies with Schoenberg’s early op.19 piano pieces – only 12 years separate the two – the surprises are many.

‘An artist to follow keenly ’ Financial Times

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Awards Issue 2010

...if Brahms and Schoenberg may strike conservative listeners as odd bedfellows, Shai Wosner, a young Israeli pianist, does not see any dichotomy between "old" and "new" music, but an evolutionary rather than revolutionary process.

December 2010

Paradoxically, the alternation of shorter pieces allows them to assert their individuality at the same time that it underlines their connections with one another. If, for even a very brief moment, one is caught asking oneself, 'Wait, is this Brahms or Schoenberg?', then Wosner's provocative idea is valid...I have not enjoyed a new piano recital as much in quite some time!

26th August 2010

This is a genuinely imaginative pairing of two composers who have more in common than their popular images might suggest...The sequence works well, and Wosner's understated playing suits it perfectly.

Shai Wosner plays Schoenberg & Brahms

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