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Vienna: Joyful Apocalypse

Aurélien Pontier (piano)

Vienna: Joyful Apocalypse
Here is someone in the studio thoroughly enjoying himself. You know you are in safe hands from the very first bars of Alfred Grünfeld’s ear-tickling medley of Die Fledermaus melodies.

Gramophone Magazine, September 2024

Vienna: Joyful Apocalypse

Aurélien Pontier (piano)

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Here is someone in the studio thoroughly enjoying himself. You know you are in safe hands from the very first bars of Alfred Grünfeld’s ear-tickling medley of Die Fledermaus melodies.

Gramophone Magazine, September 2024

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“A veritable musical metaphor for the suicide of Europe that was the Great War, both apotheosis and apocalypse. We also hear evocations of Schubert, Liszt, Mahler and Kreisler, all imbued with a kind of nostalgia that belongs only to this mythical city.” - Aurélien Pontier

This album is dedicated to the last years of Imperial Vienna, which gave rise to an artistic effervescence unique in European history. The programme opens with a piano transcription of Strauss's Die Fledermaus and ends with Ravel's La Valse.

Contents and tracklist

Grünfeld: Soirée de Vienne, Op. 56 (Paraphrase on Waltz Motives from Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus)
Work length5:27
  • Aurélien Pontier (piano)
Godowsky: Triakontameron, Vol. 3: No. 11, Alt Wien
Work length2:16
  • Aurélien Pontier (piano)
Schulhof: 3 Bearbeitungen nach Motiven von Johann Strauss, Op. 9: No. 2, Pizzicato-Polka
Work length3:24
  • Aurélien Pontier (piano)
Rachmaninoff: Polka de W. R. (After Behr’s La rieuse, Op. 303)
Work length4:16
  • Aurélien Pontier (piano)
Tchaikovsky: 6 Pieces, Op. 51: No. 6, Valse sentimentale
Work length4:50
  • Aurélien Pontier (piano)
Tchaikovsky: Valse-scherzo in A major for piano, Op. 7
Work length4:42
  • Aurélien Pontier (piano)
Kreisler: 3 Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen: No. 2, Liebesleid (Arr. Rachmaninov for Piano)
Work length4:35
  • Aurélien Pontier (piano)
Schubert: An die Musik, Op. 88 No. 4, D. 547 (Arr. Pontier for Piano)
Work length2:30
  • Aurélien Pontier (piano)
Schubert: 12 Waltzes, Op. 18, D. 145: No. 6 in B Minor
Work length1:18
  • Aurélien Pontier (piano)
Schubert: Waltz in G-Flat Major, D. Anh. I / 14 "Kupelwieser-Walzer" (Transcr. R. Strauss)
Work length1:38
  • Aurélien Pontier (piano)
Schulz-Evler: Arabesken über "An der schönen blauen Donau" (After Johann Strauss' Op. 314)
Work length8:59
  • Aurélien Pontier (piano)
Liszt: 4 Valses oubliées, S. 215: No. 2 in A-Flat Major
Work length6:13
  • Aurélien Pontier (piano)
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor: IV. Adagietto (Arr. Pontier for Piano)
Work length10:30
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  • Aurélien Pontier (piano)
Schoenberg: 6 Kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19: No. 6, Sehr langsam
Work length1:10
  • Aurélien Pontier (piano)
Ravel: La valse, M. 72b
Work length12:12
This work is only available as an album download.
  • Aurélien Pontier (piano)

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September 2024

Here is someone in the studio thoroughly enjoying himself. You know you are in safe hands from the very first bars of Alfred Grünfeld’s ear-tickling medley of Die Fledermaus melodies.
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