Czerny: Piano Music, Vol. 1 Jingshu Zhao

• Carl Czerny (1791 - 1857): L'écho des Alpes Suisses, Op. 428:
• 1 L'écho des Alpes Suisses, Op. 428: Introduction 02:52
• 2 L'écho des Alpes Suisses, Op. 428: Theme 02:09
• 3 L'écho des Alpes Suisses, Op. 428: Var. 1 01:20
• 4 L'écho des Alpes Suisses, Op. 428: Var. 2 02:03
• 5 L'écho des Alpes Suisses, Op. 428: Var. 3 01:27
• 6 L'écho des Alpes Suisses, Op. 428: Var. 4 02:02
• 7 L'écho des Alpes Suisses, Op. 428: Var. 5 02:43
• 8 L'écho des Alpes Suisses, Op. 428: Finale 03:04
• Carl Czerny:
• 9 Impromptu brilliant sur un thème national Suisse, Op. 429 13:43
• 10 Impromptu sentimental "O nume benefico", Op. 523 (After G. Rossini) 08:58
• 11 Élégantine ou rondeau brilliant, Op. 136 No. 1 07:42
• 12 Fantaisie sur des mélodies de Beethoven, Op. 752 17:40
• Total Runtime 01:05:43

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The Viennese-born Carl Czerny (1791–1857) is best remembered for his countless pedagogical studies, hundreds and hundreds of them. But Czerny’s astonishing fecundity – his opus numbers go up to 861, but there is much more music than that – has served to obscure the fact that he was an important composer in his own right, his works forming a link between Beethoven (his teacher) and Liszt (his student), between the Classical and Romantic eras. The pieces recorded here, all for the first time, reflect the brilliance of his own playing and were intended to impress the salons of Biedermeyer Vienna.

Jingshu Zhao, piano

Jingshu Zhao
one of a number of outstanding young pianists to emerge from China, was born in 1991 in Wuhan. Her talent first became evident when she started to play the piano at the age of three. She graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Keng Zhou and Baili Fang, and then continued working for her Masters degree at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Jon Nakamatsu and Mack McCray, and for her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance with Joseph Banowetz at the University of North Texas. As a concert pianist, she has performed extensively in both the People’s Republic of China and the United States. In addition, in 2010–11 she won a number of prizes in national competitions in China: the Four Hands Group Gold Award in the Helen Cup Piano Competition (Shanghai, 2010), the Outstanding Performance Award and Perth Performance Pianist in the solo group of the Chang Jiang Cup piano competition (Shanghai, 2010), silver medal in the second Deutscher Irmler-Klavierwettbewerb (Shanghai, 2011) and first prize in the piano four-hands group of the Shanghai Division of the Chang Jiang Piano Cup national college piano competition (Shanghai, 2011). She was invited to record for Baili Fang’s instructional DVD series on the Bach Inventions, published by the Shanghai Conservatory Press (2011).

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