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This recording embodies a brilliant idea, brilliantly carried out…Each of the works that Bavouzet has programmed is a revelation, and reflects the fundamental changes that were taking place... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th May 2020
Catalogue No: CHAN20128
Label: Chandos
Length: 82 minutes

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Wölfl: Piano Sonata Op. 33 No. 3 in E major

Work length14:54

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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)

I. Allegro

Track length8:01

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II. Andante cantabile

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III. Rondo. Allegretto

Track length4:24

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Clementi: Sonata in A major Op. 50 No. 1

Work length21:49

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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)

I. Allegro maestoso e con sentimento

Track length8:34

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II. Adagio sostenuto e patetico - Canone. Andante con moto

Track length5:28

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III. Allegro vivace

Track length7:47

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Hummel, J: Piano Sonata in F minor Op. 20

Work length20:59

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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)

I. Allegro moderato - Adagio

Track length9:23

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II. Adagio maestoso

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III. Finale. Presto - Ancor più presto

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Dussek, J L: Piano Sonata No. 24 Op. 61 in F sharp minor 'Elegie Harmonique'

Work length16:56

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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)

I. Lento patetico - Tempo agitato

Track length11:34

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II. Tempo vivace e con fuoco quasi presto

Track length5:22

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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet: Musical Illustrations (After Beethoven, Clementi, Dussek & Hummel)

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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)

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Presto Music Classical Podcast, Episode 2: The Art of Music Criticism with Harriet Smith

29th July 2020

For the second Presto Music Podcast, Paul is joined by music critic Harriet Smith, to discuss the art involved in reviewing classical music recordings.

In the 250th Beethoven anniversary year, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has chosen this programme of works by contemporary composers to illuminate and contextualise Beethoven’s extraordinary output for piano. In his explanatory note for the album, the pianist writes: ‘Just as a mountain peak is always surrounded by other perhaps less lofty but no less fascinating summits, the major works of Beethoven are not isolated rock formations rising from the desert, but, as it were, “Himalayas”, forming part of a range in which other mountains might be the best pieces by contemporaries such as Clementi, Hummel, Dussek, and Wölfl. These composers all knew Beethoven well and were in contact with one another. It is essential to know and to make known their music in order better to understand and more thoroughly appreciate the lingua franca of the music of the time, which in turn is part and parcel of the “spirit of the age”, and to be aware of that which unites them, as well as to recognise that which differentiates them and renders each unique. In this year of plentiful Beethovenian commemorations, it appears to me natural, indeed essential, to pay admiring and enthusiastic homage to these composers, each of whom, in his own way, followed his route to the summit.’

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August 2020

This recording embodies a brilliant idea, brilliantly carried out…Each of the works that Bavouzet has programmed is a revelation, and reflects the fundamental changes that were taking place in pianism around the turn of the 19th century.

September/October 2020

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, who has given us a highly acclaimed cycle of Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas, is quite possibly more attuned to the intersections of harmonic and motivic materials between these works than other pianists might be who have explored Beethoven but not necessarily Wölfl, Clementi, and Hummel. Bavouzet’s Beethoven Connection is more than a musical feast for the ears from a most estimable artist, it’s also food for the brain.

July 2020

Bavouzet’s keen intelligence and pristine musicianship are evident throughout, not least in his vivid delineation of the individual characters of these four composer-pianists…In Hummel’s overtly virtuoso Op 20 Sonata from 1807, Bavouzet’s focus is on its extraordinary pathos and startlingly original formal procedures...In the Andante cantabile, Bavouzet gives full vent to Wölfl’s unabashedly operatically inspired writing.

31st May 2020

Their music is often harmonically and expressively bold, its structures hold up well and it advances pianistic virtuosity. Bavouzet’s advocacy is passionate and intelligent, and he includes an appendix illustrating points made in the sleeve notes.

29th May 2020

The top attractions are a Clementi sonata with a Bach-haunted adagio, a brooding, proto-romantic sonata by Dussek, and Bavouzet’s fleet fingers and feet working his Yamaha CFX concert grand.

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