Gusztav Fenyo - Euan Moseley - Piano Topography (2010/2025) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

“ ‘Piano Topography’ is deliberately not avant–garde. I wrote it to provide an uplifting and life-enhancing musical experience for an audience. Writing avant-garde music, venturing easily into for example atonal music, runs the huge risk of doing the opposite: requiring listeners to take tablets to relieve headache or depression or to go to night school classes to understand what’s going on. Such music has its place but not here. On the other hand, to sound refreshingly different, even original, mostly cheerful and thrilling while still using mostly diatonic melody is much more difficult. After almost every bar a little voice tells you that it sounds like a bit of someone else’s music. You can easily end the day surrounded by a jeering wall of screwed up paper. “

Although basically diatonic, other scales slide in and out of the melodic line while subtleties of rhythms, sonorities and expressions have to be attended to. For these reasons it is deceptively difficult to play. In some places the music slides off the Richter scale (Sviatoslav). These pieces do not sound “difficult” like some works by Scriabin or Prokofiev but they are and to play them seamlessly while putting your own personality into a performance is quite a challenge.

It is not necessary to perform all 20 Topographs at a concert: the first 10, or second 10, or a group of just a few, played in any order, can be an exciting part of a programme or just one, for example No. 19, as an encore to finish off the “show”.

TRACKLIST

1. Gusztav Fenyo - Moseley: Topograph 1
2. Gusztav Fenyo - Moseley: Topograph 2
3. Gusztav Fenyo - Moseley: Topograph 3
4. Gusztav Fenyo - Moseley: Topograph 4
5. Gusztav Fenyo - Moseley: Topograph 5
6. Gusztav Fenyo - Moseley: Topograph 6
7. Gusztav Fenyo - Moseley: Topograph 7
8. Gusztav Fenyo - Moseley: Topograph 8
9. Gusztav Fenyo - Moseley: Topograph 9
10. Gusztav Fenyo - Moseley: Topograph 10
11. Gusztav Fenyo - Moseley: Topograph 11
12. Gusztav Fenyo - Moseley: Topograph 12
13. Gusztav Fenyo - Moseley: Topograph 13
14. Gusztav Fenyo - Moseley: Topograph 14
15. Gusztav Fenyo - Moseley: Topograph 15
16. Gusztav Fenyo - Moseley: Topograph 16
17. Gusztav Fenyo - Moseley: Topograph 17
18. Gusztav Fenyo - Moseley: Topograph 18
19. Gusztav Fenyo - Moseley: Topograph 19
20. Gusztav Fenyo - Moseley: Topograph 20



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