Wagner: Complete Piano Music

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Release Date: 25th Mar 2013
Catalogue No: 94450
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Wagner: Eine Sonate fur das Album von Frau Mathilde Wesendonck

Work length13:37

$3.00

$3.85

Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano)

Wagner: Piano Sonata in A Major, Op. 4, "Grosse Sonate"

Work length31:57

$7.00

$9.05

Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano)
Recorded: 12-13 May 2012

I. Allegro con moto

Track length8:44

$2.00

$2.60

II. Adagio molto, e assai espressivo

Track length13:39

$3.00

$3.85

III. Maestoso - Allegro molto

Track length9:34

$2.00

$2.60

Wagner: Piano Sonata in B-Flat Major, Op. 1

Work length27:24

$6.00

$7.80

Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano)
Recorded: 12-13 May 2013

I. Allegro con brio

Track length8:48

$2.00

$2.60

II. Largetto

Track length8:40

$2.00

$2.60

III. Menuetto: Allegro

Track length3:47

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Allegro vivace

Track length6:09

$1.00

$1.30

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (version for piano)

Work length4:31

$1.00

$1.30

Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano)

Tristan und Isolde: Vorspiel und Schluss (version for piano)

Track length4:31

$1.00

$1.30

Wagner: Fantasia in F-Sharp Minor

Work length28:30

Album only

Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano)

Wagner: Albumblatt in E Major

Work length2:09

$1.00

$1.30

Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano)

Wagner: Polonaise in D major

Work length2:56

$1.00

$1.30

Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano)

Wagner: Albumblatt in C Major, "In das Album der Furstin Metternich"

Work length3:04

$1.00

$1.30

Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano)

Wagner: Zuricher Vielliebchen-Walzer in E-Flat Major

Work length1:16

$1.00

$1.30

Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano)

Wagner: Albumblatt in A-Flat Major, "Ankunft bei den schwarzen Schwane"

Work length5:10

$1.00

$1.30

Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano)

Wagner: Polka in G Major

Work length0:35

$1.00

$1.30

Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano)

Wagner: Notenbrief fur Mathilde Wesendonck

Work length1:23

$1.00

$1.30

Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano)

Wagner: Polonaise in D Major, Op. 2

Work length5:18

$1.00

$1.30

Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano), Federica Ferrati (piano)

Wagner: Elegie

Work length1:38

$1.00

$1.30

Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano)

Wagner: Albumblatt in E flat major

Work length5:35

$1.00

$1.30

Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano)

Piano Sonata in A Major, Op. 4, "Grosse Sonate"

Work length10:37

$3.00

$3.85

Piano Sonata in A Major, Op. 4, "Grosse Sonate": III. Maestoso: Tempo moderato e maestoso - Allegro molto (alternative version)

Track length10:37

$3.00

$3.85

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Today Richard Wagner is best known for his extraordinary operas; any success in other domains was dwarfed by these compositional feats in the world of musical theatre. But Wagner’s piano works can be seen to be just as important in understanding the evolution of his style and musical thought, and thus the development of this dominating figure of the 19th century.

The collection brings together Wagner’s entire output for solo piano. The earliest sonata on the recording is the Piano Sonata in B flat, which shows evidence of Wagner’s music education, with much indebted to the Beethovian model as well as to the great pianist‐composers Weber and Pleyel. These influences are heard again in the more mature and complex Große Sonate – a work that Wagner intended to turn into a symphony, though this attempt was later abandoned.

A regular dedicatee of Wagner’s works was Mathilde Wesendock – the relationship between the two is still much debated today – and among the works in this collection, three are dedicated to Mathilde: the ‘masterpiece’ Eine Sonate für das Album von Frau Mathilde Wesendock, Notenbrief für Mathilde Wesendonck and the ‘Schluß zum Vorspiel’ from Tristan und Isolde. The ‘Tristan chord’ at the beginning of the latter has become considered a clear attestation of Wagner’s infatuation with Mathilde. for whom he stopped work on the Ring cycle to begin that great testament of love, Tristan und Isolde.

The works are performed by the Italian pianist Pier Paolo Vincenzi, whose busy concert schedule takes him all over his native country. He is joined for the Polonaise for 4 hands in D by Federica Ferrati.

Wagner: Complete Piano Music

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