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Piano Music for Children
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Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827 Für Elise WoO59
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Robert Schumann 1810–1856 Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) Op.15 I. Von fremden Ländern und Menschen II. Curiose Geschichte III. Hasche-Mann IV. Bittendes Kind V. Glückes genug VI. Wichtige Begebenheit VII. Träumerei VIII. Am Camin IX. Ritter vom Steckenpferd X. Fast zu ernst XI. Fürchtenmachen XII. Kind im Einschlummern XIII. Der Dichter spricht
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840–1893 Album for the Young Op.39 – selection I. Morning Prayer II. Winter Morning III. March of the Soldiers IV. The Sick Puppet V. The Puppet’s Funeral VI. Waltz VII. The New Puppet
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VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV.
Mazurka Peasant Song Russian Dance Polka Ancient French Song Sweet Dreams Song of the Lark
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Claude Debussy 1862–1918 Children’s Corner I. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum II. Jimbo’s Lullaby III. Serenade for the Doll IV. The Snow is Dancing V. The Little Shepherd VI. Golliwogg’s Cakewalk
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791 Piano Sonata No.11 in A K331 35 III. Rondo alla Turca
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Piano 36 I. 37 II. 38 III.
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Sonata No.16 in C K545 ‘Sonata facile’ Allegro Andante Rondo
Piano Concerto No.21 in C K467* 39 II. Andante
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Béla Bartók 1881–1945 Gyermekeknek (For Children) BB53 – selection from Book 2 I. Allegretto II. Táncdal (Dance Song): Allegro grazioso III. Andante sostenuto IV. Parlando V. Moderato VI. Tréfa (Joke): Allegramente Klára Würtz piano *Prima La Musica / Dirk Vermeulen
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Klára Würtz was born in Budapest and started playing the piano at the age of five. Her musical career began in the early 1970s, when she became a member of the Hungarian Children’s Choir of Radio and Television, and at the age of 17 she entered the Budapest Franz Liszt Academy, where she studied with Zoltán Kocsis, Ferenc Rados and György Kurtág. She later received scholarships from András Schiff for his masterclasses in Prussia Cove, England, and these were followed by some notable competition successes: winner of the 1985 Ettore Pozzoli piano competition in Milan and prizewinner at the 1988 International Piano Competition in Dublin. In 1989 she passed with distinction as a performing artist and music pedagogue at the Liszt Academy. In 1991 she signed with Columbia Artists Management, New York, and since then has performed more than 100 concerts in the USA and Canada, making her North American debut with orchestra as the soloist in Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto (with the Czech Philharmonic conducted by Jirˇí Beˇlohlávek) and appearing in the International Piano Festival of Williamstown and at the Newport Festival. At the end of 2002 she took Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto on tour with the Philharmonia der Nationen conducted by Justus Frantz, and in the spring of 2003 she made her debuts at Symphony Hall in Boston and Carnegie Hall, New York, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink. Her most successful recitals have been at the Kennedy Center, Washington DC, and at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. Klára Würtz made her Amsterdam Concertgebouw debut in 2001, performing Schumann’s Piano Concerto with the Philharmonia der Nationen conducted by Justus Frantz. In summer 2004 she gave an open-air concert for an audience of over 30,000 in the central square of Budapest (broadcast live on national television), playing Ravel’s Piano Concerto with the Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Iván Fischer, and in 2005 she performed Mozart with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra (conducted by Marco Boni) in the Concertgebouw.
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She is active as a chamber musician, playing with the Amsterdam Klavier Trio and Israeli cellist Timora Rosler, and has performed with violinists such as Janine Jansen and Dmitri Makhtin. She has also made nearly 30 CD recordings, including the complete Mozart piano sonatas, a selection of Schubert sonatas, the piano works of Schumann and Bartók, and concertos by Ravel, Mozart and Bartók. Her Mendelssohn recording with the Amsterdam Klavier Trio was critics’ choice of the year 2000 (Harris Goldsmith for International Record Review magazine), and her recent Beethoven violin sonatas release with the young Hungarian violinist Kristóf Baráti received five-star reviews in Diapason and Fanfare, also being described as ‘the reference recording of today’ by a leading German newspaper. Klára Würtz is professor of piano at the Conservatory of Arts in Utrecht and lives with her family in Amsterdam.
Recording: 1999, Muziekcentrum Frits Phillips, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (1–34); 1998, Maria Minor, Utrecht, The Netherlands (35–38);3 & 4 November 2008, Studio Steurbaut, Sint-Amandsberg, Belgium (39); 9 November 2011, University of Pécs, Hungary (40–45) Producers: Luc Vaes (39); Peter Arts (1–38 & 40–45) Recording engineers: Gilbert Steurbaut (39); Peter Arts (1–38 & 40–45) Artist photo: Derek Vonk 훿 2014 Brilliant Classics Licensed from Piano Classics (40–45)
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