Julian Jacobson - Beethoven Moonlight, Tempest & Waldstein Piano Sonatas (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

One of Britain’s most creative and distinctive pianists, Julian Jacobson is acclaimed for the vitality, colour and insight he brings to his enormous repertoire ranging across all styles and periods. In a career spanning five decades he has performed extensively in more than 40 countries as well as maintaining an intensive UK concert and recording schedule. His 70th birthday in 2017 was marked by concerts in London and Paris where he performed the virtuoso “War Trilogy” of Prokofiev (sonatas 6, 7 and 8) together with sonatas by Schubert and Beethoven, to critical acclaim.

Julian Jacobson was born in Peebles, Scotland to parents who were both distinguished musicians: his father Maurice Jacobson had some piano lessons with Busoni while his mother, pianist and composer Margaret Lyell, studied in Berlin with Else Krause, daughter of Liszt’s pupil Martin Krause. Julian studied in London from the age of seven with Lamar Crowson (piano) and Arthur Benjamin (composition), and had four songs published by the age of nine. Further studies at the Royal College of Music and Queen’s College Oxford were supplemented by a period as the inaugural pianist in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, as well as lessons from the great Hungarian pianist Louis Kentner.

TRACKLIST

1. Julian Jacobson - Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight": I. Adagio sostenuto
2. Julian Jacobson - Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight": II. Allegretto
3. Julian Jacobson - Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight": III. Presto agitato
4. Julian Jacobson - Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 "Tempest": I. Largo - Allegro - Largo - Allegro - Largo - Allegro
5. Julian Jacobson - Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 "Tempest": II. Adagio
6. Julian Jacobson - Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 "Tempest": III. Allegretto
7. Julian Jacobson - Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 "Waldstein": I. Allegro con brio
8. Julian Jacobson - Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 "Waldstein": II. Introduzione. Adagio molto
9. Julian Jacobson - Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 "Waldstein": III. Rondo. Allegretto - Prestissimo
10. Julian Jacobson - Bagatelle in C minor, Op. 119 No. 5



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