Leschetizky: Piano Works Classical Piano BIS

Leschetizky: Piano Works

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BI 2518

Leschetizky: Piano Works

Label Catalogue Number:
BIS-2518

Running Time: 00:57:20

Release Date: August 2020
Originally recorded in 2019

Genre:
Classical
Piano

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Theodor Leschetizky, born 1830, was a pianist and an internationally renowned and sought-after mentor to a large number of pianists. Although Leschetitzky was also active as a composer, his music is largely ignored nowadays, and in his liner notes Tobias Bigger relates how he came across it indirectly, through an interest in Ignaz Friedman, one of Leschetizky’s most famous students. Much of Leschetitzky’s production consists of character pieces for piano, and a closer study convinced Bigger of the particular qualities of many of them. He was particularly impressed by the fact that even though they convey Leschetitzky’s own joy in masterful piano playing and place considerable demands on the performer, there are no displays of empty keyboard acrobatics. For his first disc on BIS, Bigger has selected pieces from Leschetitzky’s later production, and primarily those that are not readily available in recorded form.

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“There’s much to admire in Bigger’s playing of these Leschetizky pieces; pellucid tone, sure-fingered technique, and an obvious relish for music is not contingent on your ability to play the piano. Bigger will do that for you, and he does it really well.”

Jerry Dubins - Fanfare - November/December 2020

Interpretation ***** Sound ***** Repertoire ****

Carsten Durer – Piano News magazine (Germany) – November/December 2020

“Gems to be found in this disc of unknown late-romantic piano music.”

Rob Challinor – MusicWeb-International.com – 11 November 2020

“… Tobias Bigger’s own notes are exemplary in their clarity and his playing, abetted by a fine recording, reveals similar qualities of care, discrimination but also genuine warmth. Leschetitzky’s little pieces have stylistic variety, within bounds, that proves eminently listenable on repeated hearings.”

Jonathan Woolf – MusicWeb-International.com – 26 October 2020

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