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Selected Solo Recital Repertoire |
Concert Pianist and Early Keyboard Performer
"These two
double-discs from Naxos's blue riband Grand Piano brand, released five months
apart, are the first volumes in Michael Tsalka's traversal of Daniel Gottlob
Türk's 48 published keyboard sonatas. The fact that these are all -
astonishingly - premiere recordings is reason enough to send connoisseurs
flocking to retailers, but in fact these are a music historian's dream come
true: Tsalka performs on nine different and often extremely rare period
instruments…. the sheer variety of tone and tuning, let alone Tsalka's expert
reading of Türk's highly expressive, idiomatic music, make these albums
essential listening for all lovers of good music in authentic performance…. In
the sonatas from the 1776 and 1777 Collections, Türk is at his most expansive,
his rhetorical yet sensitive music full of melodic, rhythmic and dynamic
diversity guaranteed to gratify performer and listener alike"
"Tuerk emerges from this recording as a composer whose command of material is
certainly on a par with much of Haydn’s solo keyboard sonata output...Another
superb match of musical and instrumental character is the finale of the A major
sonata, played here on the Späth & Schmahl tangent piano with great
verve....these two discs offer a feast of stunning original keyboards showed off
to good effect in music of great distinctiveness, stylishly performed"
"Michael Tsalka, who is also completing an edition of the Türk Sonatas, knows
the oeuvre of the composer like no other, and performs the music
congenially–sometimes playfully, then dreamily and pensively, and of course,
with plenty of lively virtuosity"
"Leonardo Coral’s Constelaciones for fortepiano, delicate and rich with nuances,
received its world première in an interpretation worthy of its stature by
Michael Tsalka”
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