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After the highly praised recording of music by Ustvolskaya (DDA 25130), Natalia Andreeva presents a brief survey of the Prelude and Fugue – one of the most prevalent of keyboard forms over the centuries. From Bach to Shostakovich, this concert-format album is a useful introduction to the genre, and also a fine interpretation for the experts to enjoy. Two of Rachmaninoff’s Etude-tableaux are included as ‘bonus encores’.
Companion album: ‘Piano Sonatas’ from Beethoven, Scriabin and Prokofiev (DDA 25140). Plus: Ustvolskaya’s Violin and Piano music on DDA 25182
Natalia Andreeva is a Russian pianist who is currently Lecturer in Piano at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her 2015 recording of the music of Galina Ustvolskaya was very well received, and like that album, this new recording of better-known classical and Romantic works is the result of many years of study, developing her own mental picture of these masterpieces and of what the composers were trying to communicate.
There are various links between the works – in fact Liszt, Franck and Shostakovich were all influenced by Bach generally, as well as composing in the Prelude and Fugue form that he made a staple of the keyboard repertoire.
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Johann Sebastian Bach:
- Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor, BWV 849 − I. Prelude (2:56)
- Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor, BWV 849 − II. Fugue (4:33) Franz Liszt:
- Organ Prelude and Fugue in A minor, S. 462 No. 1, after J S Bach − I. Prelude (3:42)
- Organ Prelude and Fugue in A minor, S. 462 No. 1, after J S Bach − II. Fugue (6:57) César Franck:
- Prélude, Choral et Fugue − I. Prelude (5:35)
- Prélude, Choral et Fugue − II. Choral (7:18)
- Prélude, Choral et Fugue − III. Fugue (8:39) Dmitri Shostakovich:
- Prelude and Fugue in C minor − I. Prelude (4:50)
- Prelude and Fugue in C minor − II. Fugue (6:02) Sergei Rachmaninoff:
- Etude-tableau in G minor, Op. 33 No. 7 (3:41)
- Etude-tableau in C sharp minor, Op. 33 No. 8 (3:10)
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Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor, BWV 849 − I. Prelude (2:56)
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Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor, BWV 849 − II. Fugue (4:33)
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Organ Prelude and Fugue in A minor, S. 462 No. 1, after J S Bach − I. Prelude (3:42)
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Organ Prelude and Fugue in A minor, S. 462 No. 1, after J S Bach − II. Fugue (6:57)
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Prélude, Choral et Fugue − I. Prelude (5:35)
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Prélude, Choral et Fugue − II. Choral (7:18)
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Prélude, Choral et Fugue − III. Fugue (8:39)
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Prelude and Fugue in C minor − I. Prelude (4:50)
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Prelude and Fugue in C minor − II. Fugue (6:02)
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Etude-tableau in G minor, Op. 33 No. 7 (3:41)
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Etude-tableau in C sharp minor, Op. 33 No. 8 (3:10)