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Shura Cherkassky  | Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE0014

Shura Cherkassky

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Label: Wigmore Hall Live

Cat No: WHLIVE0014

Barcode: 5065000924140

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 29th January 2007

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Contents

Works

Berkeley, Lennox

Polka, op.5
Preludes (6), op.23
» no.5
» no.6 Andante

Chopin, Frederic

Ballades (4)
» no.3 in A flat major, op.47
Mazurkas (51)
» no.38 in F sharp minor, op.59 no.3
» no.42 in G major, op.post 67 no.1
Nocturnes (21)
» no.14 in F sharp minor, op.48 no.2

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Piano Sonata no.53 in E minor, Hob.XVI:34

Hindemith, Paul

Piano Sonata no.3 in B flat major

Liszt, Franz

Hungarian Rhapsodies (19), S244
» no.2 in C sharp minor

Rameau, Jean-Philippe

Gavotte and Variations

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

The Seasons, op.37b
» no.10 October: Autumn Song

Artists

Shura Cherkassky (piano)

Works

Berkeley, Lennox

Polka, op.5
Preludes (6), op.23
» no.5
» no.6 Andante

Chopin, Frederic

Ballades (4)
» no.3 in A flat major, op.47
Mazurkas (51)
» no.38 in F sharp minor, op.59 no.3
» no.42 in G major, op.post 67 no.1
Nocturnes (21)
» no.14 in F sharp minor, op.48 no.2

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Piano Sonata no.53 in E minor, Hob.XVI:34

Hindemith, Paul

Piano Sonata no.3 in B flat major

Liszt, Franz

Hungarian Rhapsodies (19), S244
» no.2 in C sharp minor

Rameau, Jean-Philippe

Gavotte and Variations

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

The Seasons, op.37b
» no.10 October: Autumn Song

Artists

Shura Cherkassky (piano)

About

Shura Cherkassky was considered to be the ‘last of the Romantics’ and was respected for his idiosyncratic interpretations of music, the element of risk in his playing which he didn’t always pull off in terms of perfect notes, but his performances were always unpredictable in the most thrilling sense of the word.
 
A well-known adage about Cherkassky was ‘with Cherkassky all you could be sure of was that you couldn’t be sure’. He was renowned for his unique colouristic palette, served by a prodigious technique, unlike anything we hear today.
 
For Cherkassky, every concert was an opportunity to relish and experience anew, to confront infinite rather than finite possibilities. Acknowledgement of his unique status came late in his native America (Cherkassky, though based in London for many years, retained his American citizenship) but elsewhere his unique presence was more than celebrated. And here, live and on record, we can once more savour his inimitable personality to the full.
 
Always an idiosyncratic player, erratic but never dull, he represented a pianistic tradition part of which died with him’ Telegraph

Tracklisting:

1. Rameau Gavotte variee (from Suite in A minor) - 7.37

Haydn Piano Sonata No. 3 in B flat major
2. Presto - 3.41
3. Adagio - 4.01
4. Vivace molto, innocentemente - 3.57

Hindemith Piano Sonata No. 3 in B flat major
5. Ruhig bewegt - 4.23
6. Sehr lebhaft - 2.41
7. Massig schnell - 5.46
8. Fuge: Lebhaft - 5.02

Chopin
9. Ballade No. 3 in A flat major Op. 47 - 7.21
10. Nocturne in F sharp minor Op. 48 No. 2 - 7.50
11. Mazurka in F sharp minor Op. 59 No. 3 - 3.02
12. Mazurka in G major Op. 67 No. 1 - 1.27

Berkeley
13. Prelude No. 5 (from Six Preludes Op. 23) - 1.58
14. Prelude No. 6 (from Six Preludes Op. 23) - 2.06
15. Polka Op. 5 - 1.54

16. Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C sharp minor - 8.39

ENCORE
17. Tchaikovsky October: Chant d'automne (from The Seasons) - 4.57

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