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Stenhammar: Piano Music / Scafarella
Piano Classics

Stenhammar: Piano Music / Scafarella

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Details

Composer
STENHAMMAR, WILHELM
Artist
Paolo Scafarella
Format
CD
Label
Piano Classics
Released
Jun 25, 2021
Catalog #
PCL10225
UPC
5029365102254

About

Carl Stenhammar (1871-1927) trained as a pianist, and Brahms’s epic D minor Concerto held no fears for him. His writing for the instrument is accordingly bold and heroic from the outset, as his G minor Sonata from 1890 demonstrates. Held together by Wagnerian leitmotifs but often drawn into Schumannesque dreaming, the four-movement Sonata wears Austro-German passion on its sleeve, and Brahms continued to be a clear influence on Stenhammar’s piano writing in the three Fantasies Op.11 from 1895, but the harmonies are now clearer and more limpid, in the manner of Chopin but also singing with a more native Swedish or at least Nordic accent. Still more Franco-Russian in idiom are the Three Small Pieces from the same year, in the spirit of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces and Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons, each distilling Stenhammar’s individual melodic style within a minute or two. The high point of his solo piano output – as distinct from the mighty Second Piano Concerto which has found a place on the fringes of the Romantic repertoire – is reached with the Late Summer Nights Op.33, a five-movement cycle of concise tone-pictures which ventures into speculative harmonic realms like Fauré’s late Nocturnes, demanding the most refined of responses from the pianist. The Italian pianist Paolo Scafarella is fast becoming a Stenhammar specialist. He has been engaged to record the concertos with the Orchestra Filarmonica Campana in Pagani, near Naples, and he performs in the major halls of his native country. This release marks his debut on Piano Classics.

Tracklist 15 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Molto appasionato 05:35
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Molto appasionato
    Duration
    05:35
    Composer
    Wilhelm Stenhammar
    Performer
    Paolo Scafarella
  2. 2 No. 2. Dolce scherzando 05:06
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Dolce scherzando
    Duration
    05:06
    Composer
    Wilhelm Stenhammar
    Performer
    Paolo Scafarella
  3. 3 No. 3. Molto espressivo e con intimissimo sentimento 05:16
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Molto espressivo e con intimissimo sentimento
    Duration
    05:16
    Composer
    Wilhelm Stenhammar
    Performer
    Paolo Scafarella
  4. 4 No. 1. Tranquillo e soave 04:06
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 1. Tranquillo e soave
    Duration
    04:06
    Composer
    Wilhelm Stenhammar
    Performer
    Paolo Scafarella
  5. 5 No. 2. Poco presto 02:33
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 2. Poco presto
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    Wilhelm Stenhammar
    Performer
    Paolo Scafarella
  6. 6 No. 3. Piano: Non troppo lento 03:25
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 3. Piano: Non troppo lento
    Duration
    03:25
    Composer
    Wilhelm Stenhammar
    Performer
    Paolo Scafarella
  7. 7 No. 4. Presto agitato 03:55
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 4. Presto agitato
    Duration
    03:55
    Composer
    Wilhelm Stenhammar
    Performer
    Paolo Scafarella
  8. 8 No. 5. Poco allegretto 02:44
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 5. Poco allegretto
    Duration
    02:44
    Composer
    Wilhelm Stenhammar
    Performer
    Paolo Scafarella
  9. 9 No. 1. Molto tranquillo, semplice 02:26
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 1. Molto tranquillo, semplice
    Duration
    02:26
    Composer
    Wilhelm Stenhammar
    Performer
    Paolo Scafarella
  10. 10 No. 2. Allegro 01:27
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 2. Allegro
    Duration
    01:27
    Composer
    Wilhelm Stenhammar
    Performer
    Paolo Scafarella
  11. 11 No. 3. Polska (en miniature) 01:17
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 3. Polska (en miniature)
    Duration
    01:17
    Composer
    Wilhelm Stenhammar
    Performer
    Paolo Scafarella
  12. 12 I. Allegro vivace e passionato 09:54
    Track
    12
    Title
    I. Allegro vivace e passionato
    Duration
    09:54
    Composer
    Wilhelm Stenhammar
    Performer
    Paolo Scafarella
  13. 13 II. Romanza: Andante quasi adagio 04:46
    Track
    13
    Title
    II. Romanza: Andante quasi adagio
    Duration
    04:46
    Composer
    Wilhelm Stenhammar
    Performer
    Paolo Scafarella
  14. 14 III. Scherzo: Allegro molto 03:16
    Track
    14
    Title
    III. Scherzo: Allegro molto
    Duration
    03:16
    Composer
    Wilhelm Stenhammar
    Performer
    Paolo Scafarella
  15. 15 IV. Rondo: Allegrissimo 06:27
    Track
    15
    Title
    IV. Rondo: Allegrissimo
    Duration
    06:27
    Composer
    Wilhelm Stenhammar
    Performer
    Paolo Scafarella