Martin Jones is known for recording the complete piano works of composers, however, Carl Czerny is one composer that it might take a pianist decades to find, let alone record, all of his works for the instrument. Jones has undertaken Czerny's 11 sonatas in this series for Nimbus, with a few smaller pieces to fill out each volume. Czerny categorized his hundreds of piano pieces into serious works, brilliant pieces for concerts, easy pieces for students, and exercises. It is the latter for which he is remembered today, ...
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Martin Jones is known for recording the complete piano works of composers, however, Carl Czerny is one composer that it might take a pianist decades to find, let alone record, all of his works for the instrument. Jones has undertaken Czerny's 11 sonatas in this series for Nimbus, with a few smaller pieces to fill out each volume. Czerny categorized his hundreds of piano pieces into serious works, brilliant pieces for concerts, easy pieces for students, and exercises. It is the latter for which he is remembered today, particularly the School of Velocity, Op. 299. This series should change that view and show that Czerny was not only a personal link between Beethoven (his teacher) and Liszt (his student), but also a compositional and stylistic link between the two. Jones starts squarely in the middle of the 11 with four "sonatas" that are hardly traditional in terms of their form. Nos. 8 and 9 were published as "Grandes Fantasies en forme de Sonate," and while their heroic sound is suggestive of...
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