Richard Fuller - The Johann Schantz Fortepiano (2024) [Official Digital Download]

During his lifetime, Johann Schantz (1762–1828) was considered the most important and respected piano maker in Vienna alongsi-de Anton Walter and Nannette Streicher. His instruments were widely appreciated by musicians and composers, including explicitly by Haydn and Beethoven. One of his early fortepianos were integrated into the collection of old musical instruments at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna in 1939 from private ownership due to the fact that it could not be restored without considera-ble investment. There it was painstakingly restored in several phases and finally brought to its present, playable condition in 2009. On this recording, pianist Richard Fuller, renowned for his decades-long involvement with historical instruments, presents this fortepiano with the Sonatas for Fortepiano in E major, Hob. XVI:31 (1776) and E-flat major, Hob. XVI:49 (1790) by Joseph Haydn. The collaboration with the soprano Karoline Pilcz demonstrates that this instrument has unique sound characteristics not only as a solo instrument but also as an accompanying instrument. The Arette italiane, Op. 31 (1790) and the Cantata in Honor of Marie Theresie Paradis (1784) by Leopold Koželuch also date from the time of the instrument’s creation, as is characteristic of this KHM edition.

TRACKLIST

1. Richard Fuller - I - Sento amor
2. Richard Fuller - II - Un serto di fiori
3. Richard Fuller - III - Spira pur, ma spira lento
4. Richard Fuller - Sonata for Fortepiano in E major, Hob. XVI:31 - I - Moderato
5. Richard Fuller - Sonata for Fortepiano in E major, Hob. XVI:31 - II - Allegretto
6. Richard Fuller - Sonata for Fortepiano in E major, Hob. XVI:31 - III - Finale. Presto
7. Richard Fuller - I - Recitativo. Andante – Aria. Adagio
8. Richard Fuller - II - Recitativo. Maestoso
9. Richard Fuller - III - Aria. Andante
10. Richard Fuller - IV - Recitativo. Adagio. Allegro. Andante
11. Richard Fuller - V - Aria. Allegro
12. Richard Fuller - Sonata for Fortepiano in E-flat major, “Genzinger”, Hob. XVI:49 - I - Allegro
13. Richard Fuller - Sonata for Fortepiano in E-flat major, “Genzinger”, Hob. XVI:49 - II - Adagio cantabile
14. Richard Fuller - Sonata for Fortepiano in E-flat major, “Genzinger”, Hob. XVI:49 - III - Tempo di Minuet



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