in Piano International (Nov, 2018)
This is an intelligently structured recital, shifting back and forth through time, built around the complete (more or less) Impromptus of Chopin, Fauré ANDSCRIABIN; only the latter’s Op 7 Impromptus à la Mazur are missing. The Scriabin pieces, published in pairs, provide the programme’s framework, with the early Op 2/3 of 1889 as an encore. Between the first two sets come Fauré’s five Impromptus in chronological sequence, crowned by Cortot’s transcription of the D-flat major Impromptufor harp from 1904. Between the second pairs of Scriabin lie Chopin’s three Impromptus (1837, 1838 and 1842) and the earlier Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor (1834).
The three composers’ views of the form are quite …
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