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    Artist: 
    Grigory Sokolov

    Purcell & Mozart

    2CD
    €22,99

    Release date: August 30, 2024

    What do Purcell and Mozart have in common – the grounds, tunes, and dances of the English Baroque composer and the piano works from the Viennese Classical period? A lot, when played by Grigory Sokolov. His annual spring tours have become pilgrimages for his devoted followers. He dedicated the entire 2022/23 season to Purcell and Mozart (supplemented by five encores), and this live album reveals their shared streaks of charm and melancholy. The press was rapturous: “Sokolov treats every note as a precious jewel, transporting his listeners to another time while remaining timeless (Der Standard). “Unfailingly enthralling” (Süddeutsche Zeitung); “His touch: exquisite, concentrated, sparkling, luminous” (rbb online); “This colossal artist who never ceases to astonish” (Scherzo).

     

    TRACKLIST

    CD1:

    Henry Purcell (1659–1695)

    1. A Ground in Gamut, Z. 645

     

    Suite No. 2 in G minor, Z. 661

    2. I. Prelude

    3. II. Allemande

    4. III. Courante

    5. IV. Sarabande

     

    6. A New Irish Tune, Z. 646

    7. A New Scotch Tune, Z. 655

    8. Trumpet Tune, ZT 678

     

    Suite No. 4 in A minor, Z. 663

    9. I. Prelude

    10. II. Allemande

    11. III. Courante

    12. IV. Sarabande

     

    13. Round O, ZT 684

     

    Suite No. 7 in D minor, Z. 668

    14. I. Allemande

    15. II. Courante

    16. III. Hornpipe

     

    17. Chaconne in G minor, ZT 680

     

    CD2:

     

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)

    Piano Sonata No. 13 in B flat major K. 333

    1. I. Allegro

    2. II. Andante cantabile

    3. III. Allegretto grazioso

     

    4. Adagio in B minor K. 540

     

    ENCORES:

    Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764)

    5. VI. Les sauvages [Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin, Suite in G Major, RCT 6]

     

    Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)

    6. Prelude in D flat major “Raindrop”, op. 28/15

    7. Mazurka No. 40 in F minor, op. 63/2

     

    Jean-Philippe Rameau

    8. VIII. Tambourin [Suite in E minor, RCT 2]

     

    Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

    9. Prelude in E minor, BWV 855 (arr. in B minor by Alexander Siloti)

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