Heino Eller : Musique pour piano (Intégrale – volume 3)

Piano International (Jul, 2013)
Heino Eller (1887-1970) may or may not be the father figure of Estonian music, but he is undoubtedly the most important of its early figures both as a teacher of some of Estonia’s most prominent post-war composers (Tubin, Sumera, Kaljo Raid, Jaan Raats and Part) and as a composer. His not quite 200 piano works are the most numerous portion of an oeuvre including three symphonies, a violin concerto and many other orchestral works, five string quartets, three violin sonatas and other chamber music.

Toccata Classics’ piano music survey will take in seven discs, each mixing collections of miniatures with individual items and concluding with a major work: Sonata No 2 …