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Price: £24.00 (2CD'S)

Grete Sultan
"The Legacy" Vol. 2 (2-CD set)
Volume 2 of the Grete Sultan Legacy follows the remarkable success, in the U.S. and in Germany, of Volume 1.
CD 1
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
(1-34) 33 Variations on a Waltz
by Anton Diabelli, Op. 120
(35-40) Six Bagatelles, Op. 126
CD 2
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Piano Sonata
1. Molto moderato
2. Vivace
3. Andante sostenuto
Ben Weber (1916-1979)
Episodes for piano
4. Episode I; Interlude
5. Episode II
6. Episode III: Adagio
Stefan Wolpe (1916-1979)
Form for Piano
7. Remote and restless 3:34
Alan Hovhaness (1902-1972)
Yenovk (The Troubador), Partita for Piano
8. No. 1 Fantasy
9. No. 5 Gamelan.
10. No. 2 Canzona
11. No. 3 Pogh
Tui St. George Tucker
Tantum Ergo for piano
12. Adagio with solemn ecstasy; Moderato
13. Im Paradies: Allegro Moderato
14. Amoroso: Adagio molto espressivo
15. Laudate Dominum: Allegro
16. Moderato; with Majestic Jubilation
17. Moderato; Adagio
John Cage (1912-1992)
Etudes Australes
18. Book I, No. 8
19. Book II, No. 12
20. Book I, No. 6
21. Book IV, No. 32
Ms. Sultan, who came to this country in 1940 as a refugee from Nazi Germany and who is now in her mid-90s, was well-known for her association with the music of John Cage, Stefan Wolpe and other avant-gardists. But she was equally adapt as a profound interpreter of composers like Aaron Copland and Alan Hovhaness as well as the European classics, represented here by Beethoven's monumental Diabelli Variations and his late Bagatelles, Op. 126.
Among the other works on the record are the Copland Piano Sonata, three Episodes for Piano by Ben Weber, Stefan Wolpe's Form for Piano, Alan Hovhaness' Partita (subtitled Yenovk or The Troubadour), Tui St. George Tucker's Tantum Ergo and four of the Cage Etudes Australes, written for and dedicated to Ms. Sultan.

"No artist in the last three quarters of a century symbolizes the European-American connection–the correct word would be something like symbiosis–better than Grete Sultan." – Eric Salzman

Ms. Sultan, who is in her mid-90s, received the Bundesverdienstkreuz Erster Klasse in 2002, the highest civilian honor given by the German government.