Franz Schmidt: Works for piano left hand & orchestra: written for Paul Wittgenstein

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Release Date: 7th Apr 2014
Catalogue No: PC10309
Label: Pan Classics
Length: 2 hours 18 minutes

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Schmidt, F: Piano Concerto in E-Flat Major

Work length44:55

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Karl-Andreas Kolly (piano)
Wiener Jeunesse Orchester
Herbert Bock
Recorded: March and July 1995
Recording Venue: Konzerthaus Wien, Grosser Saal, Vienna, Austria

I. Allegro moderato un poco maestoso

Track length18:43

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II. Andante

Track length13:57

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III. Vivace

Track length12:15

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Schmidt, F: Chaconne in C-Sharp Minor

Work length26:19

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Karl-Andreas Kolly (piano)
Wiener Jeunesse Orchester
Herbert Bock
Recorded: March and July 1995
Recording Venue: Konzerthaus Wien, Grosser Saal, Vienna, Austria

Schmidt, F: Concertante Variations on a Theme of Beethoven for Piano and Orchestra

Work length29:37

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Karl-Andreas Kolly (piano)
Winterthur Musikkollegium
Andreas Albert
Recorded: March 1999
Recording Venue: Stadthaus Winterthur, Switzerland

I. Langsam

Track length4:27

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II. Thema

Track length4:15

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III. Ruhig fliessend

Track length2:12

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IV. Lebhaft, doch nicht zu schnell

Track length4:35

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V. Langsam - Sehr lebhaft

Track length3:27

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VI. Sehr ruhig

Track length3:21

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VII. Massig bewegt - Sehr lebhaft

Track length7:20

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Schmidt, F: Piano Quintet in G major

Work length38:03

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Karl-Andreas Kolly (piano)
Sarastro String Quartet
Recorded: March 1999
Recording Venue: Stadthaus Winterthur, Switzerland

I. Lebhaft, doch nicht schnell

Track length11:16

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II. Adagio

Track length9:19

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III. Sehr ruhig

Track length7:51

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IV. Langsam und sehr frei vorzutragen

Track length2:28

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V. Sehr lebhaft

Track length7:09

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Franz Schmidt was one of the most influential personalities in Viennese musical life during the first three decades of the 20th century. A cellist and pianist who was much sought after as a chamber music partner, he played with the Vienna Philharmonic (under Gustav Mahler, amongst others), was the solo cellist of the Vienna State Opera and a member of the same string quartet with Arnold Schoenberg. He later became a professor at the Vienna Music Academy, for his second instrument, the piano, and then rector of that institution.

After the deaths of Berg and Schreker and the departure of Schoenberg and Zemlinsky, he was considered the most important composer in the Vienna of the 1930s; his style can be classified as a late-romantic succession to Bruckner. Schmidt wrote next to nothing for solo piano, for he "internally heard only grand symphonic music". Today, we can indeed consider ourselves fortunate that Schmidt met the pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm in the First World War and commissioned the most important composers of his time to write piano works for him for the left hand. Schmidt's two great works for one-handed piano and orchestra – the Piano Concerto and the Beethoven Variations – are on this double CD alongside the Quintet for Piano and Strings composed for Wittgenstein. The programme is completed by the great orchestral Chaconne in C-sharp minor.

Franz Schmidt: Works for piano left hand & orchestra

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