Dussek: Complete Piano Sonatas Op. 14 Nos. 1-3, Vol. 9

The continuation of an exciting new project: the recording of the complete piano sonatas by Dussek!
Johann Ladislaus Dussek (1760-1812) was born in rural Bohemia. He led a restless life, travelling Europe as a keyboard virtuoso and settling in several European capitals, notably Paris and London, where he became a fashionable pianist and teacher.
Dussek’s style is rich, harmonically expressive and pianistically challenging, Classicism on the brink of Early Romanticism.
This new recording contains the three sonatas Opus 14, written and published in London in 1791, when Dussek’s popularity in the British capital was increasing rapidly.
Played by Bart van Oort, fortepiano veteran and originator of this Dussek project, and Petra Somlai, a young Hungarian fortepianist who graduated from the The Hague Conservatory.

Composer: Johann Ladislaus Dussek
Artists: Bart van Oort (fortepiano), Petra Somlai (fortepiano)

An ‘illuminating’ series (Fanfare) reaches Volume 9, presenting the complete piano sonatas on instruments of the period.

Dating from Dussek’s years in London, where he fled from the aftermath of the French Revolution, the trio of Op.14 sonatas (1791) belongs to the same genre of ‘accompanied sonatas’ as Opp. 9 and 10. Designed for performance by accomplished, aristocratic amateurs, these works have ad libitum violin parts, to be played (or not) by a gentleman, while a lady could amuse herself with the technically stiffer demands of the keyboard part. Indeed the violin parts filled in by Dussek are often so insubstantial that the works can in truth be considered keyboard sonatas, full of pianistic, brilliant, soloistic writing.

The separate G major sonata was composed in 1788, while Dussek was still in Paris: a technically challenging and musically forward-looking work which already bears some of the early 19th-century impressionism that would become a feature of early 19th-century piano music in England. There are always surprises around the corner in these sonatas – harmonic twists, flourishes, sudden pools of pathos – but Dussek places them in the context of taut and familiar sonata forms: he takes the ear on strange journeys, but keeps the listener company while doing so.

Bart van Oort is one of the Netherlands’ most renowned exponents of ‘historically informed’ performance of Classical-era keyboard repertoire, with a catalogue on Brilliant Classics that encompasses the complete piano music of Mozart (94198), many of Haydn’s sonatas (95298) and early Romantic repertoire by Chopin and John Field (92202), among others. He is joined here by the Hungarian-born pianist Petra Somlai, professor of fortepiano studies at the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag.

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Tracklist:

Johann Ladislaus Dussek:
Piano Sonata in C Major, Op. 14 No. 1, C.71:
00:00 I. Allegro
06:05 II. Andante poco larghetto
08:46 III. Air russe. Rondo. Allegretto non troppo
Sonata in G Major, Op. 14 No. 2, C.72:
11:45 I. Larghetto con espressione
19:54 II. Molto allegro
Sonata in F Major, Op. 14 No. 3, C.73:
26:24 I. 6. Allegro
36:44 II. Rondo. Allegretto
Sonate pour le clavecin où le forte-piano in G Major, WoO, C.40:
41:46 I. Larghetto col espressione
47:23 II. Allegro

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