Franz Liszt was an international star, and echoes of his music can be heard even in that of a composer as temperamentally dissimilar as Grieg. He also had closer acolytes. One of his favorites was Julius Reubke, who died at the age of 24. The close comparison between master and student heard on his disc has apparently never been recorded before: Reubke's Piano Sonata in B flat minor was not just inspired by Liszt's B minor sonata, but is closely modeled on it, with the same outline of sonata form splayed across histrionic ...
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Franz Liszt was an international star, and echoes of his music can be heard even in that of a composer as temperamentally dissimilar as Grieg. He also had closer acolytes. One of his favorites was Julius Reubke, who died at the age of 24. The close comparison between master and student heard on his disc has apparently never been recorded before: Reubke's Piano Sonata in B flat minor was not just inspired by Liszt's B minor sonata, but is closely modeled on it, with the same outline of sonata form splayed across histrionic free-form episodes. The pressure was on Reubke to meet or exceed the technical fireworks of Liszt's brooding, rather Beethovenian sonata, and in this goal he succeeded: the sonata doesn't take long to crank up keyboard-spanning two-handed figuration that has the added benefit of pushing the tonality in spots to a point it would take Liszt himself a couple more decades to achieve. British pianist Anthony Hewitt has the chops to make something genuinely exciting of this still...
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