The works on Fiachra Garvey: Music for Piano reveal a musical instinct mature beyond his years. Fiachra selected Samuel Barber’s bravura Piano Sonata and his elegiac Nocturne dedicated to John Field to bookend the two central works which are complementary highlights of the 19th and 20th century piano repertoire: Debussy’s Pour le Piano and Schumann’s Fantasiestucke. The latter is a suite of eight pieces that tentatively relates to the Hero and Leander legend but more fundamentally are among the composer’s finest and most moving works for piano.
Tracks:
1. BARBER: Piano Sonata Op.26, (i) Allegro Energico
2. BARBER: Piano Sonata Op.26, (ii) Allegro vivace e leggero
3. BARBER: Piano Sonata Op.26: (iii) Adagio mesto
4. BARBER: Piano Sonata Op.26, (iv) Fuga: Allegro con spirito
5. DEBUSSY: Pour le Piano, (i) Prelude
6. DEBUSSY: Pour le Piano, (ii) Sarabande
7. DEBUSSY: Pour le Piano, (iii) Toccata
8. SCHUMANN: Fantasiestucke op 12, (i) Des Abends
9. SCHUMANN: Fantasiestucke op 12, (ii) Aufschwung
10. SCHUMANN: Fantasiestucke op 12, (iii) Warum?
11. SCHUMANN: Fantasiestucke op 12, (iv) Grillen
12. SCHUMANN: Fantasiestucke op 12, (v) In der Nacht
13. SCHUMANN: Fantasiestucke op 12, (vi) Fabel
14. SCHUMANN: Fantasiestucke op 12, (vii) Traumes Wirren
15. SCHUMANN: Fantasiestucke op 12, (viii) Ende vom Lied
16. BARBER: Nocturne Op.33