Anthony Goldstone: Piano at the Carnival  | Divine Art DDA25076

Anthony Goldstone: Piano at the Carnival

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Label: Divine Art

Cat No: DDA25076

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 14th September 2009

Contents

Works

Khachaturian
Masquerade Suite (arr. Alexander Dolukhanian)

Schumann
Carnaval Op.9

Chopin
Souvenir de Paganini (The Carnival of Venice)

Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No.9 (The Carnival of Pesth)

Smith
Fantasie brilliante on Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera, Op.10

Dvorak
Carnival Overture Op.92 (arr. Paul Klengel)

Artists

Anthony Goldstone (piano)

Works

Khachaturian
Masquerade Suite (arr. Alexander Dolukhanian)

Schumann
Carnaval Op.9

Chopin
Souvenir de Paganini (The Carnival of Venice)

Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No.9 (The Carnival of Pesth)

Smith
Fantasie brilliante on Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera, Op.10

Dvorak
Carnival Overture Op.92 (arr. Paul Klengel)

Artists

Anthony Goldstone (piano)

About

Carnival, celebrated predominantly though by no means exclusively in Catholic countries, is the period of revelry – and excess – preceding the forty days of abstention during Lent, commemorating the privations of Jesus in the wilderness. The origin of the word is not clear, but it may come from the Latin carne vale, farewell to meat (theoretically forbidden in Lent), and the tradition goes back at least as far as the middle ages in Italy.

Masked balls have figured importantly in the festivities, during which often “anything goes” and which reach a climax on the day before Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, famously known as Mardi Gras (fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday in Britain). Many works of art – visual, literary and musical – have been inspired by the possibilities of the carnival; for the pianist the pinnacle is Schumann’s Carnaval, Op.9, which is the focus of this CD.

Also included on this disc are works on the same theme – and feature three première recordings:
- Khachaturian: Masquerade Suite (arr. Alexander Dolukhanian)
- Sydney Smith: Fantasie brilliante on Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera, Op.10
- Dvorak: Carnival Overture Op.92 (arr. Paul Klengel)

This is the second in a trio of discs by Anthony Goldstone featuring piano transcriptions themed on forms of public spectacle, following “A Night at the Opera" (DDA25067).

Described by The New York Times as “a man whose nature was designed with pianos in mind”, Anthony Goldstone is one of Britain’s most respected pianists. He has enjoyed a career encompassing six continents, very many broadcasts and nearly seventy CDs. He has an adventurous approach to repertoire and has been praised by Vienna's Die Presse for “his astonishingly profound spiritual penetration”.

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