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Label:
   Cybele - http://www.cybele.de/
Serial:
   SACD 160.403
Title:
   Erich Itor Kahn: Klavierwerke - Thomas Günther
Description:
   Erich Itor Kahn: 6 Bagatellen Op. 5, 8 Inventions (1937), Ciaccona Dei Tempi Di Guerra (1943), Short Piano Piece (1951), 5 Bagatellen für Klavier

Thomas Günther
Details:
  
Genre:
   Classical - Instrumental
Content:
   Stereo/Multichannel
Media:
   Hybrid
Recording type:
  
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Reviews: 1
Site review by Polly Nomial May 1, 2008
Performance:  Sonics (MC):
As with his other discs, Thomas Günther provides eloquent and passionate advocacy for a composer of whom few will have heard the name, let alone his music. Unlike many of Cybele's 20th Century releases, this is relatively enjoyable on an emotional as well as intellectual level. The biggest reason for this is the extensive use of Bachian techniques that gives the listener a familiar framework about which they can examine the ideas of Kahn. Other clear influences are those of Beethoven (in the extensive use of the miniature form), Schoenberg (for his harmonic language) and Ravel (primarily the textures employed). Kahn's music might be considered a logical progression from Schoenberg in the same way that Brahms looked to past styles that he then combined with the (then) contemporary tonal and emotional language.

The recording is very good indeed; so good in fact that the minor tonal and tuning deficiencies of Günther's piano are all too audible and thus diminishing the level of pleasure that repeated listening could bring.

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