 | from Paderewski: Piano Sonata & Variations (CDA67562) 1 Theme: Andante non troppo [0'50] 15 minutes 16 seconds 16 tracks2 Variation I [0'43] 3 Variation II: Allegro moderato [0'33] 4 Variation III: Allegro vivace [0'30] 5 Variation IV: Vivace [0'30] 6 Variation V: Maestoso [0'57] 7 Variation VI: Animato e molto leggiero [0'26] 8 Variation VII: Vivace e sempre grazioso [0'40] 9 Variation VIII: Presto [0'15] 10 Variation IX: Tempo I [0'51] 11 Variation X: Un poco più mosso [0'46] 12 Variation XI: Andante misterioso [1'32] 13 Variation XII: Con fuoco [0'32] 14 Variation XIII: Allegro molto appassionato [0'24] 15 Variation XIV: Larghetto [2'03] 16 Fugue: Allegretto [3'44] ‘Jonathan Plowright shines a powerful light on Paderewski … you have a pianist clearly in love with every bar of Paderewski's romantic rhetoric and it would be hard to imagine playing of greater ... ‘A distinctive and distinguished melodic voice shines through … everywhere there is always a strong sense of forward momentum … in Jonathan Plowright these works have a near-ideal interprete ... ‘It's all dense music, highly wrought, and Jonathan Plowright plays it quite superbly, with an enviable range of keyboard colour’ (The Guardian) |