Franz Schubert: Moments Musicaux & Sonata, D850 Valery Afanassiev

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Album info

Album-Release:
2012

HRA-Release:
21.09.2012

Label: ECM

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Instrumental

Artist: Valery Afanassiev

Composer: Franz Schubert (1797–1828):

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  • Six moments musicaux D 780 (op. 94)
  • 1C Major: Moderato05:54
  • 2A-Flat Major: Andantino07:17
  • 3F Minor: Allegro moderato02:17
  • 4C-Sharp Minor: Moderato05:19
  • 5F Minor: Allegro vivace02:05
  • 6A-Flat Major: Allegretto07:07
  • Sonata in D Major D 850 (op. 53)
  • 7Allegro vivace09:37
  • 8Con Moto12:38
  • 9Scherzo: Allegro vivace09:29
  • 10Rondo: Allegro moderato09:07
  • Total Runtime01:10:50

Info for Franz Schubert: Moments Musicaux & Sonata, D850

Der Pianist Valery Afanassiev – berühmt für seine hoch individuellen und tief introspektiven Interpretationen der Musik von Franz Schubert – kombiniert hier zwei eher extrovertierte Werke des Komponisten: die sechs „Moments musicaux“ und die Sonate D-Dur (D 850). Aufgenommen im September 2010 im Auditorio Radiotelevisione Svizzera in Lugano, ist dies die zweite Schubert-Einspielung des in Moskau geborenen Pianisten für ECM. Zuvor war eine Liveaufnahme von Afanassiev mit Schuberts letzter Sonate (D 960) beim Lockenhaus Festival 1986 erschienen, die inzwischen als Geheimtipp für Kenner gilt. Die „Moments musicaux“, geschrieben in den Jahren 1823 bis 1827 (dem Jahr vor dem unzeitigen Tod des Komponisten), strömen über vor liedhaften und tänzerischen Elementen, und auch vor den für Schubert so charakteristischen Stimmungswechseln von Dur nach Moll, von hell zu dunkel. Die 1825 geschriebene Sonate in D-Dur (D 850) ist eine von Schuberts überschwänglichsten Klaviersonaten – mit volkstümlich wirkenden Melodien, simulierten Hornrufen und stark synkopierten Rhythmen – aber wie in so vielen Werken dieses Komponisten gibt es auch hier Passagen mit einer Aura des Nostalgischen und voller emotionaler Ambivalenz.

Valery Afanassiev, Klavier

Recorded September 2010
Auditorio Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano
Tonmeister: Peter Laenger
Produced by Manfred Eicher

Valery Afanassiev was born in Moscow in 1947 and studied at the Moscow Conservatory under Jacob Zak and, subsequently, Emil Gilels. He has won two major international competitions: the Bach Competition in Leipzig (1968) and Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels (1972). In 1974, he requested political asylum in Belgium; since his defection to the West, he has given concerts throughout Europe, Japan and the U.S.

An author as well as a musician, Afanassiev has recorded more than 30 CDs, the liner notes for which he writes himself, aiming to give the listener a total picture of his insight into the composer’s mind – a guided tour through an alchemical laboratory in which poetry, philosophy, painting, the Kabbalah and even wine, as much as musical notation, may be taken as points of reference. A musical partner of Gidon Kremer for many years, Afanassiev recorded Schubert and Brahms chamber pieces with the violinist. The pianist has also recorded major solo works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Mussorgsky, among others.

Afanassiev has written 14 novels: nine in English, five in French. He has also written 14 books of poetry in English and three in Russian, a book of long stories, a book of short stories, a huge commentary on Dante’s Commedia, three books of essays and two theatrical pieces inspired by Pictures at an Exhibition and Kreisleriana, in both of which he performs as pianist and actor (in four languages). He has written a play based on Kafka’s In the Penal Colony during which he performs Morton Feldman’s Palais de Mari. He has also conducted various international orchestras.

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