Jan Dussek - Piano Virtuoso & Composer!

[SonicMan46]

TTT after 3 Years!    And not much to report as new and available? 

Re-listening to my Dussek collection, so far the harp CDs and the KB sonatas w/ Markus Becker on modern piano - will just sample my Brilliant collection of sonatas on fortepianos. I decided against buying any Maria Carzón in my last post from 2021, and in perusing Amazon not much at all has been added.

So, I was looking at the Craw listing of Dussek's compositions, 287 numbers! Tons of his music unrecorded - would like to see more in Amazon - not much left to say except for those curious go to the U of Southern California's site for Howard Craw's PhD dissertation on Dussek HERE (too large to add as an attachment) - I did a PDF download for free - should be an interesting read.  Dave

 

[Jo498]

I have 3 Dussek discs: 2 with Staier, one with piano concerti (Capriccio), one with sonatas (dhm, there is apparently another volume), both on old instruments and one with Trio 1790 on cpo, If I am not mistaken (I might confound it with Kozeluch  )that trio CD was my favorite but I apparently I liked the two others well enough to keep them.

[SonicMan46]

Well, I opened my mouth too soon in my previous post about nothing new in the Dussek World!

Brilliant is at it again; first, they have boxed up the 10 fortepiano discs (see below) which is now $22.50 USD at Prestomusic for this month.

Also, I see 3 Vols of Violin Sonatas (also below) - according to the Howard Craw catalog, Dussek composed over 50 of these works (Craw 5-7, 14-16, 17-22, 27-29, 37-39, 41-42, 54a, 55a, 56a, 57-62, 64-69, 74-76, 79, 81, 118-123, 126, 128, 154, 240-241) - SO, how far will they go?  One positive review is attached from Fanfare; interestingly, all sonatas are listed as CrawD numbers where D = Dubious, however, my numbers above have them all included - misprint by Brilliant and Fanfare?  At any rate, not sure how far this project will progress?  Dave