Heino Eller: Complete Piano Music, Volume Nine

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Catalogue No: TOCC0669
EAN/UPC: 5060113446695
Release Date: 04.08.2023
Composer: Heino Eller
Artists: Sten Lassmann

The piano music of Heino Eller (1887–1970), a total of 206 works, is not only the largest part of his output: it is also the largest body of works in Estonian classical music. But most of these pieces are unknown, even though the best of them are original contributions to the twentieth-century piano repertoire, with Eller’s sensitive lyricism underpinned by gentle humour and an occasional epic tone. This ninth and final volume in its first-ever complete recording prefaces his expansive Piano Sonata No. 3 with a series of charming miniatures and ends with the emblematic anthem Homeland Tune, a musical embodiment of Estonian national feeling.

Sten Lassmann, piano

Listen To This Recording:

  1. Meditation in B Major (1938)* (2:55)
  2. Miniature in G Sharp Minor (1916)* (2:08)
  3. Toccata in B Major (1919)** (4:15)
  4. Tempo di marcia in G Major (1909)* (1:07)
  5. Tempo di marcia in E Flat Major* (2:06)
  6. Allegro moderato in E Minor (1909)* (1:08)
  7. Andante espressive in B Flat Major* (0:48)
  8. Sostenuto in E Flat Minor* (1:24)
  9. Moderato con anima in B Flat Minor* (1:06)
  10. Sostenuto in B Flat Minor* (1:36)
  11. Tempo di valse in G Major* (0:57)
  12. Allegro vivace I in E Major* (0:48)
  13. Piece in C Sharp Minor* (0:42)
  14. Lento in C Minor* (1:01)
  15. Waltz in A Flat Major (1913)* (3:38)
  16. Impromptu in F Minor (c. 1910)* (4:23)
  17. Waltz in B Flat Major (1913)* (4:09)
  18. Andante moderato in G Minor (1914/1942)* (2:43)
  19. Humoresque: Une mouche importune (1916)* (2:51)

Four Lyric Pieces (1947)** (10:13)

  1. No. 1 Sostenuto in B Major (1:43)
  2. No. 2 Moderato assai in B Minor (2:02)
  3. No. 3 Lento espressivo in F Sharp Major (3:02)
  4. No. 4 Andante con moto in F Sharp Minor (3:26)
  5. Sostenuto for the left hand(1940)* (3:09)

Piano Sonata No. 3 in E Flat Minor (1944)** (22:20)

  1. I. Allegro moderato (8:38)
  2. II. Larghetto (7:01)
  3. III. Allegro vivo (6:41)
  4. Kodumaine viis (‘Homeland Tune’; 1918-1940s) (3:37)

*First Recordings
**First Digital Recordings

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