Reynaldo Hahn was best known in his lifetime, as he is today, for the music he wrote for voice, which encompasses a number of operas, operettas, song cycles, and individual songs. The majority of Hahn's solo piano works come from the two collections represented here, Premières valses and Le rossignol éperdu, which includes 53 short "poems for piano." Pianist Pavel Kolesnikov, touted for imaginative programming, continues on this path by offering a sampling from these two sets. With a range of styles, none straying too far ...
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Reynaldo Hahn was best known in his lifetime, as he is today, for the music he wrote for voice, which encompasses a number of operas, operettas, song cycles, and individual songs. The majority of Hahn's solo piano works come from the two collections represented here, Premières valses and Le rossignol éperdu, which includes 53 short "poems for piano." Pianist Pavel Kolesnikov, touted for imaginative programming, continues on this path by offering a sampling from these two sets. With a range of styles, none straying too far from the composer's noted lyricism, this program of shorter pieces allows Kolesnikov an opportunity to show off some flexibility as a performer. His interest in Hahn's music followed the discovery and addition of the composer's Violin Sonata to a program with violinist Elina Buksha. This curiosity was further explored during the coronavirus lockdowns, which allowed Kolesnikov time to investigate the composer's music further. His experience playing Bach (Goldberg Variations, 2020) can...
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