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Chopin’s music has become ubiquitous enough to forbid almost any comment on it claiming origina... more Chopin’s music has become ubiquitous enough to forbid almost any comment on it claiming originality of insight. However, such is the universality of its powerfully expressive language that the music of this truly unique composer will surely never lose its appeal to both listener and interpreter alike. It is important to note Chopin’s place in musical history. It is this dynamic that informed his creative vernacular calling as he did on the inspiration of the Baroque and early Classical periods and proceeding to fashion an unmistakeable style without obvious antecedents and also no apparent debt to contemporaries.

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Images of Schubert in portraiture often seemingly emphasise the comfortable amiability of the fam... more Images of Schubert in portraiture often seemingly emphasise the comfortable amiability of the familiar beloved and bespectacled Viennese songsmith. Furthermore, the famously laconic pose struck in the Wilhelm August Rieder painting belies the existence of tensions under that calm exterior which are only ever fully revealed in Schubert’s music. It is almost incomprehensible that a life as short in duration as it was devoid of drama could have inspired works that speak to us as profoundly as any of the complexities and emotional richness of the human spirit.

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Sonatina seconda, composed in 1912, comes from the most overtly experimental period of Busoni’s c... more Sonatina seconda, composed in 1912, comes from the most overtly experimental period of Busoni’s creative life and coincidental obsession with the Occult. Indeed, he was later to confirm that the Sonatina was conceived as a preparatory study for his masterpiece, Doktor Faust and it would not be unreasonable to assert that the shorter piano work is a distillation of the opera’s essence. The designation Sonatina is undoubtedly ironic given the scope and novelty of Busoni’s radical musical language.

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Chopin’s music has become ubiquitous enough to forbid almost any comment on it claiming origina... more Chopin’s music has become ubiquitous enough to forbid almost any comment on it claiming originality of insight. However, such is the universality of its powerfully expressive language that the music of this truly unique composer will surely never lose its appeal to both listener and interpreter alike. It is important to note Chopin’s place in musical history. It is this dynamic that informed his creative vernacular calling as he did on the inspiration of the Baroque and early Classical periods and proceeding to fashion an unmistakeable style without obvious antecedents and also no apparent debt to contemporaries.

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Images of Schubert in portraiture often seemingly emphasise the comfortable amiability of the fam... more Images of Schubert in portraiture often seemingly emphasise the comfortable amiability of the familiar beloved and bespectacled Viennese songsmith. Furthermore, the famously laconic pose struck in the Wilhelm August Rieder painting belies the existence of tensions under that calm exterior which are only ever fully revealed in Schubert’s music. It is almost incomprehensible that a life as short in duration as it was devoid of drama could have inspired works that speak to us as profoundly as any of the complexities and emotional richness of the human spirit.

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Sonatina seconda, composed in 1912, comes from the most overtly experimental period of Busoni’s c... more Sonatina seconda, composed in 1912, comes from the most overtly experimental period of Busoni’s creative life and coincidental obsession with the Occult. Indeed, he was later to confirm that the Sonatina was conceived as a preparatory study for his masterpiece, Doktor Faust and it would not be unreasonable to assert that the shorter piano work is a distillation of the opera’s essence. The designation Sonatina is undoubtedly ironic given the scope and novelty of Busoni’s radical musical language.

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