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Great short masterpieces for piano
Schubert, Debussy, Satie, Berio
Michal Tal,
pianist
www.michaltal.com
Standing at the top of the Israeli piano scene, Michal Tal is one of the most active musicians in numerous fields: solo and chamber music playing, new music performing and promoting, teaching, coaching and supervising young teachers, directing musical and pedagogical projects, as well as searching always after new experiences in her field.
Michal Tal was born in Tel Aviv and started her piano lessons when
she was five years old. At the age of sixteen she performed as a soloist
with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Since then she played with all
leading orchestras in Israel, Europe and the U.S. such as the Virginia
and Dallas Symphonies, the Strasbourg Philharmonic, the Munster Symphony
and the Hilversum Radio Orchestra.
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| CD1/Track 3: F. Schubert - Theme and variations |
The short piece for piano was one of the hallmarks of early Romanticism, together with the enormous technological progress in piano building at that time. Unlike the large scale, multi-movement piano sonata with its complex cyclic architecture, the miniature strove to capture a fleeting emotion, an impression of nature. The piano pieces ranged from tiny miniatures, such as Mendelssohn's Songs without Words, to brief movements in ternary form, as in the case of Schubert's Impromptus op.142. The Romantic term Impromptu' stems from improvisation' and Schubert clearly meant to emphasize the nature of the music as a free outpouring of ideas, as contrasted to his large scale piano sonatas. Robert Schumann, who was deeply dedicated to Schubert's music, considered the four Impromptus as another Schubert sonata which moves from the tender melancholy of the first movement through the elegant third to the stormy, Austro-Hungarian dance character of the finale. Yet pianists frequently perform them as individual compositions...
Franz Schuber (1797-1828) Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Six Préludes (from Book 2)
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Erik Satie (1866-1925) Croquis et Agaceries d'un Gros Bonhomme en Bois 5. Trois Nocturnes Descriptions Automatiques Embryons Desséchés 13. Le picadilly, Je te veux Luciano Berio (1925-2003) Six encores pour piano |