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Joseph Anton Steffan: Harpsichord Sonatas

Mitzi Meyerson (harpsichord)

Awards:

Steffan’s style is ultimately original and distinctive...Having dusted off these forgotten scores for her swansong recording, Mitzi Meyerson makes for a persuasive advocate...In sum, Steffan...

Joseph Anton Steffan: Harpsichord Sonatas

Mitzi Meyerson (harpsichord)

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Steffan’s style is ultimately original and distinctive...Having dusted off these forgotten scores for her swansong recording, Mitzi Meyerson makes for a persuasive advocate...In sum, Steffan...

About

Mitzi Meyerson is a world-renowned American harpsichordist and teacher, based in Berlin for many decades now.

She maintains a sterling reputation for her concerts and recordings, and has taught hundreds of students over the last thirty years, many of whom went on to be successful artists in their own right. She specializes in researching little-known or lost works for the harpsichord which she then brings to light in recordings.

She has released over sixty albums to excellent critical acclaim. For the last 15 years she has been an exclusive Glossa recording artist, in a label that has worked with her in order to bring into the light, a solo or with small chamber ensembles, music by Balbastre, Muffat, Jones (Richard and John), Somis or Francoeur.

Her latest project, with sonatas by Josef Antonin Stepan (or Steffan, depending on the sources), reflects her patient, respectful and profoundly musical ap- proach to her own new discoveries.

These newly found sonatas, which she defines as “a sort of missing link in the transition from harpsichord to fortepiano” and being “at he forefront of the development to a new era of composition” with “flavours of Mozart, Haydn, and early Beethoven”, were recorded in Berlin and set yet another milestone in Meyerson’s enthusiastic search for unjustly neglected repertoire.

Contents and tracklist

I. Andante maestoso - Allegro
Track length11:08
II. Andantino o tempo di menuetto
Track length5:02
III. Andante, tempo di menuetto
Track length7:24
I. Andante non molto
Track length6:30
I. Adagio non molto
Track length8:12
II. Andante non molto
Track length5:30
III. Allegro assia
Track length5:06
Andante non molto
Track length7:27
I. Allegro spirituoso
Track length7:02
II. Andante non molto
Track length8:31
III. Tempo di minuetto
Track length7:37

Awards and reviews

  • BBC Music Magazine
    October 2021
    Instrumental Choice

October 2021

Steffan’s style is ultimately original and distinctive...Having dusted off these forgotten scores for her swansong recording, Mitzi Meyerson makes for a persuasive advocate...In sum, Steffan revels in all the expressive possibilities of the keyboards of his day; Meyerson responds with playing at once informed and joyous.
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