Czerny

Carl Czerny works for piano and orchestra:

"What remains after the work has finished is a sense of a profoundly gifted composer...Rosemary

Tuck makes a fine case for all this interesting, worthy music.." - GRAMOPHONE

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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"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

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:

Works recorded so far include Grand Concerto in A minor, Op. 214, Grand Nocturne Brilliant, Op. 95,

Concertino In C Op. 210/13, Concerto in D minor and the Second Grand Concerto in E flat:

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