Risto-Matti Marin, piano (2005, DPSCD-105)

This debut album features as a versatile and interesting program as one could imagine. There is both lyricism and virtuosity in the two Scarlatti sonatas, as well as Finnish Selim Palmgren’s and Karl Ekman’s Sibelius song transcriptions. Juho Miettinen’s hauntingly beautiful 4th Kaneetti is given here it’s first recording. Busoni’s monumental transcription of Liszt’s Fantasy and fugue “Ad nos, ad salutarem undam” and Ernö Dohnányi’s two etudes represent full bloodied romanticism.

 

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Risto-Matti Marin, piano (2005, DPSCD-105)

Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757):

1 Sonata in B Minor, K 197 [6’18]
2 Sonata in C Major, K 159 [2’06]

Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) – Selim Palmgren (1878–1951):

Three song transcriptions [8’21]

3 Svarta Rosor [2’31]
4 Säv, säv, susa [2’41]
5 Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings mote [3’09]

Jean Sibelius – Karl Ekman (1869–1947):

6 Laulu ristilukista / Fool’s Song for a Spider [3’51]

Franz Liszt (1811–1886) – Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924):

Phantasie und Fuge über “Ad nos, ad salutarem undam” [29’19]

7 I Phantasie [9’54]
8 II Chorale [11’53]
9 III Fuge [7’32]

Juho Miettinen (b. 1978):

10 Kaneetti No. 4 [6’06]

Ernst von Dohnányi (1877–1960):

Two Concert Etudes from Op. 28 [7’57]

11 No. 6 in F Minor “Capriccio” [2’30]
12 No. 4 in B Flat Minor [5’27]

Richard Wagner (1813–1883) – Ernest Schelling (1876–1939):

13 Prelude to Tristan & Isolde [10’51]

Total: 76’06