Ignaz Moscheles - Sonate mélancolique, Op.49 [1821]

Happy to bring you a wonderful compact sonata by Bohemian composer Moscheles. Some mistakes around 5 minute, and this recording is very fast, but I feel like it has to be very emotional and virtuosic. As written in the start "quick and with passion". There are performances lasting 10 ,12, or even as long as 17 minutes. In my opinion much of the effect is lost when it is played that slowly, but everyone as they want. Especially the sixteenth passage I think are extremely effective at this tempo (if you can play it), and it does remind me a lot of the Presto of the f sharp minor fantasie of Mendelssohn. Indeed, I think this is the fastest recording you will find at all. The first time I heard of this piece was 3 hours ago by the way.
Moscheles was a piano virtuoso - He was based initially in London and later at Leipzig, where he joined his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as professor of piano at the Conservatory. Here we can already see the connection of these 2.
Among his 142 opus numbers, Moscheles wrote a number of symphonic works. Apart from an overture, a ballet and a symphony, all are scored for piano and orchestra: eight piano concertos (of which the last is in fragmentary form only, no orchestral parts having survived) and sets of variations and fantasias on folk songs. The main theme of the finale of his fourth piano concerto is based on the tune "The British Grenadiers". Moscheles also left several chamber works (including a piano trio that has been recorded), and a large number of works for piano solo, including sonatas and the études that continued to be studied by advanced students even as Moscheles's music fell into eclipse. There are also some song settings.


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