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Paganini at the Piano
Arrangements and Variations by Hambourg, Busoni, Zadora, Friedman and Papandopulo
Goran Filipec (piano)
There is no denying this gifted artist’s technical command. His incisive attack in, for instance, Var 8 of Mark Hambourg’s Variations, its chordal figurations played at allegro vivace with real...
Paganini at the Piano
Arrangements and Variations by Hambourg, Busoni, Zadora, Friedman and Papandopulo
Goran Filipec (piano)
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There is no denying this gifted artist’s technical command. His incisive attack in, for instance, Var 8 of Mark Hambourg’s Variations, its chordal figurations played at allegro vivace with real...
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In the years between 1902 and 1914 some of the world’s greatest pianists published a series of works that explored the lyricism and virtuosity of Paganini’s Caprices. Busoni was the greatest figure among them, but he considered Mark Hambourg to be the greatest pianistic talent of his generation. Both Michael Zadora and Ignaz Friedman carried out inventive free transcriptions while years later the Croatian Boris Papandopulo infused the pungent flavours of mid-20th-century idioms into the genre.
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- Goran Filipec (piano)
- Recorded: 23-24 February 2017
- Recording Venue: Campus Fichtenhain, Krefeld, Germany
Awards and reviews
June 2018
There is no denying this gifted artist’s technical command. His incisive attack in, for instance, Var 8 of Mark Hambourg’s Variations, its chordal figurations played at allegro vivace with real heft…but all too often we get the hectoring martellato that Friedman requests only in the blaze of octaves that round off the piece. Such reservations notwithstanding, Filipec is an exciting prospect and his programme is most valuable.
