Product Description
The reputation of Johann Nepomuk Hummel – child prodigy, student of Mozart, successor of Haydn and Beethoven’s rival, widely-travelled piano virtuoso, composer, conductor, influential teacher and ingenious businessman – is once more on the rise. His variations, fantasies and potpourris on operas, including his own, were influential on Liszt and showcase his extraordinary abilities as both performer and composer.
Winner of the Città di Stresa International Piano Competition, Madoka Inui has collaborated in literary-musical events with several distinguished authors and made a number of recordings for Naxos as accompanist in its Viennese series devoted to the art of solo instruments.
Tracklisting
Variations on Vivat Bacchus from Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Op. 34, No. 3
Variations on a theme from Gluck's 'Armide', Op. 57
Quintuor des nègres from the Ballet Paul et Virginie, Op. 41
arr. for piano
Variations on the Aria ‘Guide mes pas, o Providence’ from Cherubini’s Les deux journées
Oberons Zauberhorn, Op. 116
version for piano
Variations on the March from Isouard’s Cendrillon, Op. 40a
Potpourri No. 1 from Die Eselshaut, Op. 58
