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The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: Rainolf on Saturday 26 November 2022, 02:04

Title: Draeseke's Piano Sonata with Charlotte Steppes
Post by: Rainolf on Saturday 26 November 2022, 02:04
Felix Draeseke's Sonata quasi Fantasia op. 6 has found a staunch advocate in Charlotte Steppes, a young German pianist from Leipzig. She had played the work several times during the last year, e.g. at the annual conference concert of the International Draeseke Society on 16 October in Bad Rodach. Here you can hear her performance from 20 March 2022 in Leipzig:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pumG9G_-D70
Title: Re: Draeseke's Piano Sonata with Charlotte Steppes
Post by: Alan Howe on Saturday 26 November 2022, 18:23
Magnificent. Does anyone deny that this is a masterpiece of the first order? Indebted to Liszt, but harmonically it couldn't be by anyone else. Thanks so much for the link.