Can Cakmur: Schubert + Krenek – SUPER-AUDIO CD

Title: Schubert + Krenek
Artist: Can Cakmur
Label: Bis
Product Type: SUPER-AUDIO CD
UPC: 7318599926902
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2024-08-30
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: HYBRID SACD

For his series called Schubert+, pianist Can cakmur juxtaposes the complete major piano solo compositions by the Viennese composer with works by others who were inspired by his music, thus providing the opportunity to see these works in a new light. While making up a near complete anthology of Schubert’s completed major piano music, each disc is also intended as a self-contained recital. In this third instalment, cakmur presents not only a work by the 20th-century composer Ernst Krenek but also Krenek’s completion of an unfinished sonata by Schubert. In the process, Krenek assimilated the Schubertian language so well that the result is astonishing. As cakmur says, ‘I would find it difficult to spot where Schubert ends and Krenek begins if it wasn’t specified in the score.’ Krenek, whose career spanned more than seven decades, was a prolific composer who embraced a host of styles. For his Second Piano Sonata, composed in the 1920s, he pays homage to Schubert by adopting some of his techniques, though the music owes much more to early 20th-century Paris than to 19th-century Vienna. A fascinating and neglected work to be discovered through the prism of Schubert.

Tracks:
1.1 Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 59/IEK29~I. Allegretto
1.2 Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 59/IEK29~II. Alla marcia, energico
1.3 Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 59/IEK29~III. Allegro giocoso
1.4 Ungarische Melodie, D 817
1.5 Allegretto in C minor, D 915
1.6 Piano Sonata in C major, D 840~I. Moderato
1.7 Piano Sonata in C major, D 840~II. Andante
1.8 Piano Sonata in C major, D 840~III. Menuetto. Allegretto – Trio
1.9 Piano Sonata in C major, D 840~IV. Rondo. Allegro