Heino Eller: Complete Piano Music, Volume Three
As both composer and teacher Heino Eller (1887-1970) was one of the founders of the classical tradition in his native Estonia. Yet his copious output for piano — some 200 works — is largely unknown, an omission this series of seven CDs seeks to redress. The central works of Volume Three are the Ten Lyric Pieces, mirroring the tragic loss of Eller's Jewish wife, murdered during the Nazi occupation, and Fourth Sonata, a late masterpiece that sums up a life's work. The three Studies here offer a glimpse of Eller's early virtuosic pursuits, and the five Preludes showcase his endeavours in an expressionist idiom.
Sten Lassmann, piano
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Ten Lyric Pieces (1942–43)
- No. 1 Andante con moto
- No. 2 Allegro con passione
- No. 3 Andante meditativo
- No. 4 Allegro molto
- No. 5 Mesto, moderato assai
- No. 6 Sostenuto espressivo
- No. 7 Allegro agitato
- No. 8 Allegretto grazioso
- No. 9 Adagio elegiaco
- No. 10 Theme and 8 variations; Theme: Moderato, un poco maestoso
- No. 10 Var. I: Un poco più mosso
- No. 10 Var. II: Allegro
- No. 10 Var. III: Andante piacevole
- No. 10 Var. IV: Presto scherzando
- No. 10 Var. V: Allegro animato
- No. 10 Var. VI: Allegretto grazioso
- No. 10 Var. VII: Vivo
- No. 10 Var. VIII: Sostenuto espressivo
- Study in A flat major (1918)
- Study in G flat major (1919)
- Study in G flat major (1917)
- Lento
- Moderato assai
- Sostenuto
- Lento
- Moderato
- I Allegro risoluto
- II Andante sostenuto
- III Vivo
Preludes (1929–30)
Piano Sonata No. 4 (1957–58)
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