Dussek: Complete Piano Sonatas, Volume 4

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Release Date: 16th Nov 2018
Catalogue No: 95604
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 61 minutes

Dussek, J L: Piano Sonata in A-Flat Major, Op. 5, No. 3

Work length15:21

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Tuija Hakkila (fortepiano)
Recorded: 15-17 April 2017
Recording Venue: Concert Hall Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen, Finland

I. Allegro

Track length12:07

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II. Rondo: Allegro non tanto, con spiritoso

Track length3:14

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Dussek, J L: Piano Sonata in B flat major, Op. 24

Work length11:49

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Tuija Hakkila (fortepiano)
Recorded: 15-17 April 2017
Recording Venue: Concert Hall Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen, Finland

I. Allegro con spirito

Track length5:56

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II. Pastorale: Allegro moderato con espressione

Track length5:53

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Dussek, J L: Piano Sonata in A major, Op. 43

Work length16:37

$4.00

$5.15

Tuija Hakkila (fortepiano)
Recorded: 15-17 April 2017
Recording Venue: Concert Hall Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen, Finland

I. Allegro moderato con espressione

Track length11:52

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II. Rondo: Allegro

Track length4:45

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Dussek, J L: Piano Sonata No. 24 Op. 61 in F sharp minor 'Elegie Harmonique'

Work length17:31

$4.00

$5.15

Tuija Hakkila (fortepiano)
Recorded: 15-17 April 2017
Recording Venue: Concert Hall Nya Paviljongen, Kauniainen, Finland

I. Lento patetico - Tempo agitato, non presto

Track length11:10

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$3.85

II. Tempo vivace e con fuoco quasi presto

Track length6:21

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Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812) was a composer-virtuoso esteemed by Haydn, from the same generation as Beethoven but far more travelled, feted in salons and palaces from London to St Petersburg.

The four sonatas on this disc all come from different periods: the earliest (op.5 no.3 in A flat) dates back to 1788, the threshold of the French Revolution, while the last (op.61 in F sharp minor) was composed in 1807, in the midst of the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars. The B flat major Sonata op.24 reflects Dussek's time in London, and op.43 in A major the period of his hasty departure from London, abandoning his young wife in London and fleeing to Hamburg to avoid his creditors, notably including Lorenzo da Ponte.

In the sonatas from op.24 onwards Dussek richly exploits the colourful sonorities of the then-new five-and-a-half-octave Broadwood grand, mingling flamboyant virtuosity and explosive rhetoric with a rhapsodic expansiveness and harmonic side-slips that foreshadow Schubert. The music is tautly structured and passionately argued, with richly imaginative textures and a subtle use of chromaticism for poignant effect.

On this latest instalment in a projected complete set of the sonatas, each album performed by a different pianist specialising in music of the Classical era, the Finnish pianist Tuija Hakkila plays two instruments: a Viennese five-octave instrument of anonymous manufacture dating from around 1800, and a modern copy of a Longman Clementi fortepiano (London, 1799) made by Chris Maene. Both pianos are ideally suited to the drama, virtuoso brilliance and often deep, rich sonorities of these sonatas.

Dussek: Complete Piano Sonatas, Volume 4

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