Rondeau, Jean: Gradus ad Parnassum
Rondeau, Jean: Gradus ad Parnassum
Format: CD
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Artist: Rondeau, Jean
Label: Erato
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5054197416170
Genre: Classical
Aspiring to Parnassus, the mythological mountain home of the Muses, Jean Rondeau explores the possibilities of the harpsichord in music composed over more than 400 years - much of it for the piano. He pays tribute to the Austrian composer Johann Joseph Fux, who in 1725 published the original Gradus ad Parnassum, an influential treatise on counterpoint, and to Muzio Clementi, whose similarly titled collection of piano studies came a century later. The theme continues with Debussy's Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum, an affectionate parody of Clementi from the Children's Corner suite. The album's scope extends to the renaissance (Palestrina) and to works conceived for the piano by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. Rondeau's Gradus ad Parnassum sensitizes us to what repertoire written for the piano can reveal about the harpischord - and to what the harpsichord can reveal about repertoire written for the piano.
Tracks:
1.1 Ricercare del primo tuono - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Jean Rondeau
1.2 Harpeggio and Fuga in G Major: Harpeggio - Johann Joseph Fux - Jean Rondeau
1.3 Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-Flat Major, Hob. XVI:46 "Divertimento": I. Allegro moderato - Franz Joseph Haydn - Jean Rondeau
1.4 Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-Flat Major, Hob. XVI:46 "Divertimento": II. Adagio
1.5 Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-Flat Major, Hob. XVI:46 "Divertimento": II. Adagio - Franz Joseph Haydn - Jean Rondeau
1.6 Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-Flat Major, Hob. XVI:46 "Divertimento": III. Finale. Presto - Franz Joseph Haydn - Jean Rondeau
1.7 Gradus ad Parnassum, Op. 44: No. 45 in C Minor, Andante malinconico (Transcr. Rondeau) - Muzio Clementi - Jean Rondeau
1.8 2 Preludes, Op. 39: No. 2 in C Major (Transcr. Rondeau) - Ludwig van Beethoven - Jean Rondeau
1.9 Children's Corner, CD. 119, L. 113: I. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum (Transcr. Rondeau) - Claude Debussy - Jean Rondeau
1.10 Prelude in F Minor, WoO 55 (Transcr. Rondeau) - Ludwig van Beethoven - Jean Rondeau
1.11 Gradus ad Parnassum, Op. 44: No. 14 in F Major, Adagio sostenuto (Transcr. Rondeau) - Muzio Clementi - Jean Rondeau
1.12 Fantasia No. 3 in D Minor, K. 397 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Jean Rondeau
1.13 Piano Sonata No. 16 in C Major, K. 545 "Semplice": II. Andante - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Jean Rondeau
1.14 Ciaccona in D Major, K. 403 - Johann Joseph Fux - Jean Rondeau
1.15 Ricercare del secondo tuono - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - Jean Rondeau
