Carl Czerny Nikos Athinäos

Carl Czerny penned an astonishing amount of music, including the numerous potpourris, fantasies, teaching pieces and studies for which he became known. This recording features the delightfully entertaining "Concertino in C major", Op. 210/213 (MS Op. 197), as well as the highly enjoyable "Rondino", a work based on an enchanting theme taken from Daniel Auber’s opéra comique Le Maçon.

This album of world premieres is the first volume in a series of Carl Czerny’s works for piano and orchestra starring Australian pianist Rosemary Tuck. She is accompanied by the English Chamber Orchestra under conductor Richard Bonynge on this programme, inspired by the most famous and attractive themes from Bel Canto operas which were hugely popular in their time and are still performed today. The sets of variations as performed here give full rein to the soloist and are a major contribution to the great pianist composer tradition.

A little-known ‘Well-Tempered Clavier’ for the 19th century in a superbly engineered new version.

Respected international pianist Rosemary Tuck presents a collection of works by Czerny on this release for Naxos. Primarily remembered today as a pupil of Beethoven, a teacher of Liszt, and for his famous piano treatise, Czerny was a prolific composer in his own right. This album brings together his enchanting Introduzione e Rondo brillant in B Flat Major, the Piano Concerto in D Minor, and the Introduction, Variations and Rondo on C.M. von Weber's Hunting Chorus from Euryanthe, displaying the varied skills of this overlooked 19th-century figure.

A little-known ‘Well-Tempered Clavier’ for the 19th century in a superbly engineered new version.
Long known as Beethoven’s pupil, Liszt’s teacher and the bane of countless piano students ever since as the prolific author of exercises and studies which have won foundational status in their importance for piano technique, Carl Czerny (1791-1858) is finally gaining recognition as a composer in his own right. During the 19th century, while his pupils were still alive to play them, his concertos still enjoyed a measure of familiarity and success, but Czerny’s sheer industry obscured his creative achievements: where should a listener start with a catalogue of opus numbers into the four figures?

Carl Czerny is well known as Beethoven’s pupil and amanuensis; as a pianist and piano teacher in his own right, and even to pianophiles as an important composer for the instrument. Pietro Delle Chiaie now illuminates another side to this influential figure in early- Romantic Europe, with the first-ever complete collection of Czerny’s organ music.
Every serious piano student nowadays works their way through Czerny’s exhaustive collections of studies, which refine every aspect of piano technique. As a former student, however, Franz Liszt regarded Czerny’s creative abilities highly enough to invite him in 1837 to contribute to a jointly composed piece, the Hexameron, alongside the likes of Chopin and Thalberg.

Pianist, harpsichordist and pianofortist Aurelia Vişovan delivers her exciting project bringing together a great Schubert sonata, ‘D. 958’, and a Carl Czerny masterpiece, ‘Grand Sonata No. 6 in D minor’, which totals fifty minutes of intense and sophisticated music. Behind the pedagogue who was loved by his pupils, such as Thalberg or Liszt, there indeed lies a composer of great talent.

Carl Czerny is well known as Beethoven’s pupil and amanuensis; as a pianist and piano teacher in his own right, and even to pianophiles as an important composer for the instrument. Pietro Delle Chiaie now illuminates another side to this influential figure in early- Romantic Europe, with the first-ever complete collection of Czerny’s organ music.
Every serious piano student nowadays works their way through Czerny’s exhaustive collections of studies, which refine every aspect of piano technique. As a former student, however, Franz Liszt regarded Czerny’s creative abilities highly enough to invite him in 1837 to contribute to a jointly composed piece, the Hexameron, alongside the likes of Chopin and Thalberg.

Carl Czerny’s instructional exercises may be his lasting legacy but there remain numerous largely forgotten pieces that reveal important elements of his compositional range.