Pianist Rosemary Tuck has been a champion of the works of Carl Czerny, which have seen a modest revival in recent years. Czerny's prolific nature, the thinking goes, hurt him, as no less than Brahms noted, and there is worthwhile stuff among the stream of minor work. The trouble is that no work has emerged as a favorite, as a Czerny masterwork. Tuck here offers a work that might, for it came directly out of Czerny's association with Beethoven, who did, it must be conceded, champion his student. That work is the Grand ...
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Pianist Rosemary Tuck has been a champion of the works of Carl Czerny, which have seen a modest revival in recent years. Czerny's prolific nature, the thinking goes, hurt him, as no less than Brahms noted, and there is worthwhile stuff among the stream of minor work. The trouble is that no work has emerged as a favorite, as a Czerny masterwork. Tuck here offers a work that might, for it came directly out of Czerny's association with Beethoven, who did, it must be conceded, champion his student. That work is the Grand Concerto No. 2 in E flat major for piano and orchestra, which unlike most of Czerny's output, was apparently never published. Czerny, aged 21, wrote it shortly after he gave the premiere of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 ("Emperor"), and Tuck suggests that it was an homage of sorts. In fact, it's hard to say. The work is indeed in E flat major, like Beethoven's concerto, and with its 20-minute first movement and 45-minute total length, it announces similar...
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