LUBIMOV,ALEXEI - Dussek: Piano Sonatas Vol.3 (Sealed) (CD)

The complete edition of the piano sonatas in eight volumes of Dussek will continue in July with Vol. II. Johann Ladislaus Dussek (1760-1812) was born in rural Bohemia was born. As a keyboard virtuoso he led an eventful lived, traveled through Europe and resided in various European capitals, including Paris and London, where he became a sought-after pianist and teacher. Seine close relationship with piano maker Broadwood led to important technical developments, in particular for the Extension of the keyboard to six octaves. Dussek's style is rich, expressive in harmony and pianistic sophisticated - classic on the threshold of early Romanticism. The recording contains the sonatas op. 44 and op. 77, which lead to the most original and mature works of Dussek. They prove the musical stylistic elements of his time: the polyphony and the canon imitation of the Baroque, the rhetorical Gestures and the Passion of Storm and Stress and the charm and coquetry of gallant style. Alexei Lubimov is one of the most impressive pianists of our time. One of the last students of the legendary pianist and pedagogue Heinrich Neuhaus, Lubimov has published his areas of interest constantly expanded and differentiated. today he is equally at home in the contemporary as in the old world. music at home, plays both the modern piano and the also on historical instruments. His latest recording of works for keyboard instruments by C.P.E. Bach, recorded on a tangent wing, has received numerous international Awards.