LAN286 - Ilona Timchenko, piano

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'You can only marvel at such sheer quality...this is among the most commanding and musically fascinating of all new and recent piano issues.'
Gramophone

'Timchenko's playing has great clarity, while in the Paganini Variations, she discharges music of terrorising technical difficulty with brilliance.'
Sunday Times

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Artists
Ilona Timchenko, piano

Description
Virtuoso Russian pianist Ilona Timchenko is one of the two winners of the Abstract Securities Landor Competition 2007. Her debut recital combines works from three closely aligned figures in German 19th Century composition, Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann and his wife Clara.

On the recording, Clara Schumann’s intricately worked 3 Preludes and Fugues opus 16 separate two of the most formidably virtuosic and acutely emotional works in the Romantic canon, Robert Schumann’s passionate and impulsive Kreisleriana opus 16, dedicated to Clara, and Brahms’ Paganini Variations Books 1 and 2.

Clara Schumann dubbed the Paganini Variations, based on the famous theme by Niccolò Paganini, ‘Hexenvariationen’ (Witch’s Variations), presumably on account of their fiendish difficulty, and they have showcased the talents of some of the piano world’s titans, including Earl Wild, Jean Yves Thibaudet, Claudio Arrau and Evgeny Kissin.

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Track Listing


Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
(from Kreisleriana opus 16)
1	Äusserst bewegt	2.25

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
(from Kreisleriana opus 16)
2	Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch	9.10

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
(from Kreisleriana opus 16)
3	Sehr aufgeregt	4.22

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
(from Kreisleriana opus 16)
4	Sehr langsam	3.43

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
(from Kreisleriana opus 16)
5	Sehr lebhaft	3.09

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
(from Kreisleriana opus 16)
6	Sehr langsam	3.28

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
(from Kreisleriana opus 16)
7	Sehr rasch	2.15

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
(from Kreisleriana opus 16)
8	Schnell und spielend	4.15

Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
(from 3 Preludes and Fugues opus 16)
9	Prelude - Andante (Prelude and Fugue in G minor)	1.45

Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
(from 3 Preludes and Fugues opus 16)
10	Fugue - Allegro vivace (Prelude and Fugue in G minor)	1.31

Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
(from 3 Preludes and Fugues opus 16)
11	Prelude - Allegretto (Prelude and Fugue in B flat major)	2.04

Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
(from 3 Preludes and Fugues opus 16)
12	Fugue - Andante (Prelude and Fugue in B flat major)	2.02

Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
(from 3 Preludes and Fugues opus 16)
13	Prelude - Andante (Prelude and Fugue in D minor)	1.33

Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
(from 3 Preludes and Fugues opus 16)
14	Fugue - Andante con moto (Prelude and Fugue in D minor)	2.30

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
(from Paganini Variations Books 1 and 2 opus 35)
15	Tracks 15-29: Book 1	13.08

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
(from Paganini Variations Books 1 and 2 opus 35)
16	Tracks 30-44: Book 2	10.42

	Total Timing	68.25

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