Joseph Tong - Jean Sibelius: Piano Works, Vol.3 (2023)
Joseph Tong - Jean Sibelius: Piano Works, Vol.3 (2023)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 241 Mb | Total time: 73:47 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Quartz Music | # QTZ 2158 | Recorded: 2022
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 241 Mb | Total time: 73:47 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Quartz Music | # QTZ 2158 | Recorded: 2022
Joseph Tong has headed to the Sibelius Museum in Turku, Finland for Volume 3 of Sibelius’s piano works, programmed and played with thought and care on a modern Steinway. Sibelius wrote his first pieces for piano aged 20, and Tong’s recital opens with a piece from just three years later. Schumann is in the wings of the rarely heard Florestan Suite, its four movements inspired by the fairy-tale character Florestan and his encounter with water nymphs. It’s followed by a Largo in A major, eloquently played. The Six Impromptusof 1893 find Sibelius continuing to explore Romantic piano genres, in melancholic minor keys that move us from sombre grandeur (No. 1) to silvery dance (No. 2), emphatic martial rhythms (No. 3) to a sorrowful bittersweetness (No. 4). The stand-out is the Fifth Impromptu, in which Liszt meets Sibelius, with rippling passagework and a yearning melody.
Petits Morceaux (written, the composer told his children, ‘so that you will have bread and butter’) are charmingly done, but the Ten Pieces, Op. 58 (1909) offer greater musical rewards. Tong here is beautifully sensitive to character and mood, particularly in the deliciously elusive opening ‘Rêverie’ and concluding ‘Summer Song’, though sometimes a more varied colour palette would be welcome.–Rebecca Franks
Performer:
Joseph Tong, piano
Tracklist:
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Florestan Suite, JS82
01. I. Moderato
02. II. Molto Moderato
03. III. Andante
04. IV. Tempo I
05. Largo, JS117
Six Impromptus, Op.5
06. No. 1 in G Minor
07. No. 2 in G Minor
08. No. 3 in a Minor
09. No. 4 in E Minor
10. No. 5 in B Minor
11. No. 6 in E Major
8 Petits Morceaux, Op.99
12. Pièce Humoristique
13. Esquisse
14. Souvenir
15. Impromptu
16. Couplet
17. Animoso
18. Moment De Valse
19. Petite Marche
Ten Pieces, Op.58
20. Rêverie
21. Scherzino
22. Air Varié
23. Der Hirt
24. Des Abends
25. Dialogue
26. Tempo Di Minuetto
27. Fischerlied
28. Ständchen
29. Sommerlied
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Joseph Tong - Jean Sibelius: Piano Works, Vol.3 (2023)
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