no 116

Il piano di Big Bag sembra filare alla perfezione. Giunge con il professor Titius sul Picco delle Nebbie, ma Mister No è sulle loro tracce. Insieme, i tre scopriranno l'inquietante Valle dei Morti, che uccide chi ha la sventura di attraversarla!

British pianist Charles Owen attended the Yehudi Menuhin School, where his teacher was Seta Tanyel, and studied at the Royal College of Music with Irina Zaritskaya and Imogen Cooper. He was the winner of the silver medal at the Scottish International Piano Competition in 1995, a finalist at the London Philharmonic/Pioneer Young Soloist competition in 1996, and he shared the Parkhouse Award with violinist Katharine Gowers in 1997.

Steinway ambassador, Guildhall professor and co-founder of the London Piano Festival, Charles Owen turns to the late piano works by Johannes Brahms for his latest AVIE release. Within this collection of Capriccios, Rhapsodies and Intermezzi, Charles reveals myriad moods with the composer harking back as well as facing forward – from evocations of Schubert, Schumann and Liszt in the Eight Klavierstücke, Op. 76; winter-like darkness in the two Op. 79 Rhapsodies; Hungarian foot-stomping dance forms in the seven Fantasies that comprise Op. 116; nostalgic contemplation in the Op. 117 Intermezzi; romantic inflections in the Op. 118 Klavierstücke which were dedicated to Clara Schumann; and the tonally forward Klavierstücke, Op. 119.