Carl Czerny's music, after more than a century of neglect, is enjoying a mild revival, and this release marks the beginning of a series of Czerny piano-and-orchestra recordings from Naxos, the completist's abundant playground. The album explores what is indeed one of the most frequent genres in Czerny's output, the set of variations on famous operatic airs of the day. Once listeners hear the Introduction, Variations, et Presto Finale sur un Thème favori de l'Opéra Norma de Bellini, Op. 281, they'll pretty much have ...
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Carl Czerny's music, after more than a century of neglect, is enjoying a mild revival, and this release marks the beginning of a series of Czerny piano-and-orchestra recordings from Naxos, the completist's abundant playground. The album explores what is indeed one of the most frequent genres in Czerny's output, the set of variations on famous operatic airs of the day. Once listeners hear the Introduction, Variations, et Presto Finale sur un Thème favori de l'Opéra Norma de Bellini, Op. 281, they'll pretty much have absorbed Czerny's bag of tricks: a two- or three-part structure, with bits of contrast and periodic quasi-sonata moves or other Beethovenian gestures thrown in (the final Introduction and Variations Brillantes sur le Marche favori de l'Opéra Gli Arabi nelle Gallie de Pacini, Op. 234s), and, most of all, lots of brilliant writing in the piano's top register. This last is ill-served by Naxos' church engineering here; the piano's high notes are lost, and the otherwise able English Chamber...
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