Czerny
Czerny Romance Op. 755:
Carl Czerny works for piano and orchestra:
"The music in this release is superbly accomplished in the Viennese Classical style and, listening
blind, any innocent listener would assume that the Piano Concertino, Op. 78 (composed in 1824)
was a lost score by Beethoven."
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
"The Fantaisie et Variations brillantes sur une Romance de Blangini lasts an unbroken 23 minutes
and, on this hearing, emerges as something of a masterpiece."
LIMELIGHT MAGAZINE
"What remains after the work has finished is a sense of a profoundly gifted composer..."
GRAMOPHONE
Limelight discusses the series: A Czerny Journey
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MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL - RECORDING OF THE YEAR 2020
"This is a sumptuous selection of Czerny's music that has never appeared in the catalogue before. The
pieces are deftly played by pianist Rosemary Tuck who brings her usual energy and focus to Czerny's
superbly written variations."
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Links and reviews:
"Czerny's music, always expressive, elegant and never heavy, deserves to be investigated. This is what
Rosemary Tuck does with conviction and bravura, in this fourth volume of a complete survey of the
Austrian composer's works for piano and orchestra, which offers many first recordings. We also
congratulate the excellent English Chamber Orchestra and the impeccable Richard Bonynge."
DIAPASON
"Australian pianist Rosemary Tuck demonstrates the beauty and delicacy of the filigree melodies
in the first movement, and the cadenza, written by Tuck and Alan Jones, glints and glitters. Tremolo
passages in the compact second movement dance like butterflies. The third movement sees Tuck
tear up and down the keyboard, masterfully managing the scale-like passagework."
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
"Rosemary Tuck's technical poise and genuine feeling for the idiom make a compelling case"
GRAMOPHONE
"Czerny's piano writing is consistently florid and requires a pianist who can deliver roulades with
Mendelssohnian lightness. Australian pianist Rosemary Tuck is one such; since 2004 she has worked
closely with Richard Bonynge, who partners her expertly. Tuck plays her own brilliantly inventive
cadenza co-written with Alan Jones"
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Tuck Rounds of her Entertaining and Illuminating Czerny Series in Style
Czerny is simply a pedant...Wrong!
Beethoven's Mate Far from Second Rate
...a Higher Ranking in the History of Music...
...the Tuck/Bonynge partnership is marvellous.
Together with Richard Bonynge, Rosemary Tuck and the English Chamber Orchestra are recording the
music for piano and orchestra by Carl Czerny in a CD series for Naxos. The project is all encompassing,
from research and preparation of the scores through to the sessions themselves at St Silas Church in
Kentish Town. Written in a florid Bel Canto style, the series aptly includes an operatic element alongside
major works including the immense Concerto in D minor, completed in 1812, the year Czerny also premiered
Beethoven's Emperor concerto in Vienna, and his Second Grand Concerto in E flat, begun just ten days after
performing it. Such was Czerny's popularity, the title page for his F major concerto Op. 28, a transcription work,
displays his name larger than that of Hummel, who orchestrated it, and Giuliani, who wrote the music:
Czerny Concerto in F major, Op. 28
Works recorded include Grand Concerto in A minor, Op. 214, Grand Nocturne Brilliant, Op. 95,
Concertino In C Op. 210/13, Concerto in D minor, Second Grand Concerto in E flat and Concertinos Op. 78 and 650:
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