Pianist, Chamber Musician, Recording Artist, Teacher, Lecturer, Adjudicator
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At the beginning of his career, the Viennese pianist-composer Anton Eberl (17651807) had to put up with the doubtful flattery of seeing some of his works published under the name of Mozart, who was a friend and supporter. But Eberls charming and elegant music deserves to be remembered in its own right: it engages in remarkably imaginative and experimental formal innovations, developing the Viennese Classical style beyond the point at which Mozart had left it, to a degree of refinement that led Eberls contemporaries to prefer his compositions to Beethovens.
Selected as a “Disc of the Month” by French magazine Classica.
Received attention from the prominent Korean newspaper, Chosun-ilbo, as an important world-premiere recording.
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“...Eberl, remember, was himself a celebrated piano virtuoso, and some of his writing for the instrument in these sonatas is quite brilliant. Kang handles it all with ease and stylish aplomb, always sensitive not to upstage the violin..."
- Fanfare Magazine
Reinhard Oppel (1878–1941) was a major figure in inter-War Germany, as composer, teacher and theoretician. His rich, late-Romantic music encompasses symphonies, chamber and choral music, songs and works for piano. His music went underground in East Germany – literally: after World War II, when his family fled west from the occupying Russian army, they hid his music under the garden shed and there it remained, unknown, until the fall of Communism, when his son was able to return and retrieve it. This first CD of his heart-warming, Dvořákian piano music begins a series of releases intended to win Oppel’s music the audience it deserves.