Der Pianist 856

Carl Czerny, a famous pianist and teacher, student of Beethoven, wrote an immense oeuvre for the piano, in which his prodigious technique could be shown to the greatest advantage. His many didactical works, the Etudes, are daily fare for every aspiring young pianist, cruel but nourishing! Czerny's Op.856 contains 48 Preludes and Fugues in all major and minor keys. The Preludes and Fugues are the Romantic's answer to an obsolete form, imbuing the formal counterpoint with many new pianistic devices of Czerny's own invention.

Played on a Pleyel piano from 1853 by Emanuele Delucchi, one of the most remarkable pianists of his generation. He has the technique and style to master these difficult pieces. He made a name with his recordings for Piano Classics of the insanely difficult Chopin Studies by Godowsky, played on a 1906 Steinway D.