Brahms / Schoenberg - Piano Works - Wosner, Shai (piano)
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'An artist to follow keenly '
(Financial Times)
- The debut recording from Shai Wosner. Wosner continues to attract international recognition for his exceptional artistry, musical integrity and creative insight.
- With imaginative programming that communicates his intellectual curiosity, Wosner performs a wide-ranging repertoire from Mozart and Beethoven to Ligeti and composers of his own generation. Wosner's virtuosity and perceptiveness have increasingly made him a favourite among audiences and critics alike.
- In 2005, Wosner won an Avery Fisher Career Grant. In the same year, he received a Borletti- Buitoni Trust Award. He also continues his extensive performing and recording activity as a BBC New Generation Artist, which he was named in September 2007. He is in demand with orchestras and conductors worldwide.
- Both Brahms and Schoenberg were indebted to the musical styles of earlier generations - and not just the mighty shadow of Beethoven. The baroque period intrigued both composers, and it is interesting to note that two of their most important works for solo piano - works in which they expressed their mature style and authority - are inspired by the baroque.
- Shai Wosner calls the Suite by Schoenberg and the Handel Variations by Brahms 'declarations of independence'. The Schoenberg was his first purely 12-tone work, and the Brahms was his first wholly successful solo piano work after the three early sonatas, yet both take their inspiration from the baroque period.
- Brahms the revolutionary is highlighted by Wosner on this CD by interweaving the late op.116 Fantasies with Schoenberg's early op.19 piano pieces - only 12 years separate the two - the surprises are many.