Ernst Krenek (1900-1991): Piano Music, Volume One
This first extended survey of the piano music of Ernst Krenek (1900–91) opens with his Fourth Sonata of 1948, which revisits the graceful elegance of the First Viennese School in the style of the Second. It continues with the witty George Washington Variations and the first recording of a brief Prelude written for the Swiss patron of music, Werner Reinhart, and concludes with Krenek’s completed version of Schubert’s unfinished Piano Sonata in C major, d840.
Works:
1. Sonate für Klavier Nr. 4 op. 114 (1948)
1.1. Sostenuto
1.2. Andante sostenuto, con passione
1.3. Rondo: Vivace
1.4. Tempo di minuetto, molto lento
2. George Washington variations op. 120 (1950)
2.1. Washington's grand march
2.2. The same elaborated upon
2.3. Battle music
2.4. Elegy
2.5. The chase (a canon)
2.6. Sarabande
2.7. Grand finale, with the martial cotillion
3. Prélude WoO 87 (1944)
4. Franz Schubert: Sonate für Klavier C-Dur D 840 "Reliquie" (vervollständigt von Ernst Krenek) (1825/1921)
4.1. Moderato
4.2. Andante
4.3. Menuetto: Allegretto
4 4. Rondo: Allegro
Released 2015.