Rudolph Ganz & The Last Romantics Dominic Chamot

• Rudolph Ganz (1877–1972): 4 Klavierstücke, Op. 14:
• 1 Ganz: 4 Klavierstücke, Op. 14: No. 1, Wellenspiel 02:29
• 2 Ganz: 4 Klavierstücke, Op. 14: No. 2, Menuett 04:50
• 3 Ganz: 4 Klavierstücke, Op. 14: No. 3, Melodie 04:52
• 4 Ganz: 4 Klavierstücke, Op. 14: No. 4, Etude-Caprice 04:30
• Christian Sinding (1856-1941): Piano Sonata in B Minor, Op. 91:
• 5 Sinding: Piano Sonata in B Minor, Op. 91: III. Vivace 08:25
• Ganz: 3 Compositions for Piano, Op. 10:
• 6 Ganz: 3 Compositions for Piano, Op. 10: No. 3, Fileuse pensive 04:36
• Ganz: Klavierstücke, Op. 23:
• 7 Ganz: Klavierstücke, Op. 23: No. 1, Heldengrab 02:16
• 8 Ganz: Klavierstücke, Op. 23: No. 2, Intermezzo 03:26
• 9 Ganz: Klavierstücke, Op. 23: No. 3, Im Mai 03:26
• Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924): Sonatina No. 6, BV 284:
• 10 Busoni: Sonatina No. 6, BV 284: Fantasia da camera super carmen 08:52
• Ganz: 2 Concert Pieces, Op. 29:
• 11 Ganz: 2 Concert Pieces, Op. 29: No. 2, Scherzino 02:24
• Ganz: Klavierstücke, Op. 31:
• 12 Ganz: Klavierstücke, Op. 31: No. 1, Little Sphinx 01:41
• 13 Ganz: Klavierstücke, Op. 31: No. 2, Little Elf 02:47
• Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): La Valse, M. 72 (Piano Version):
• 14 Ravel: La Valse, M. 72 (Piano Version) 12:39
• Total Runtime 01:07:13

Info for Rudolph Ganz & The Last Romantics

Pianist, conductor, composer, close friend of Busoni and champion of Ravel in the United States, Rudolph Ganz remains one of the great forgotten figures of early twentieth-century music. Through eleven works, including five world premiere recordings, Dominic Chamot retraces Ganz's singular artistic journey at the crossroads of Romanticism and Modernism. From the intimate lyricism of his early piano miniatures to the more daring harmonic language of his later works, this programme reveals a composer of striking individuality and imagination. The album places Ganz alongside composers who shaped his artistic world and dedicated important works to him: Christian Sinding, Ferruccio Busoni and Maurice Ravel. Performed by the award-winning German-Swiss pianist Dominic Chamot, this recording combines discovery, virtuosity and historical insight.

Dominic Chamot, piano

Dominic Chamot
was born in Cologne in 1995. Award-winning and acclaimed by audiences, his lively and highly multifaceted activity as a soloist and chamber musician has long since ceased to be an insider tip.

Despite his young age, he has already won more than two dozen prizes and awards, making him one of the most successful pianists of his generation.

Most recently in 2019, Chamot attracted European attention with two first prizes and a second prize at international piano competitions in Germany, Italy and Spain.

This was followed in 2020 by his filling in for Hélène Grimaud at short notice, prompting praise from the press and propelling him into the international spotlight. Since then he can be heard regularly on the great stages of the world.

But already as a teenager he made a career as a “young talent”: At the age of only 12 he was accepted at the Pre-College-Cologne of the HfMT Cologne in the class of Prof. Sheila Arnold, who gave him decisive musical impulses.

International prizes soon followed in Berlin, Zwickau, Enschede, Weimar, Cologne etc. and concerts in halls such as the Berlin and Cologne Philharmonic, the Vienna Musikverein and others.

However, Chamot chose to initially escape the hustle and bustle of concertizing to study with the famous pedagogue Claudio Martinez-Mehner in Basel, where he refined his playing.

He completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s studies (Specialized Performance – Soloist) with highest grades and distinction.

During this time, his reputation as a versatile artist developed, leading him to ever-increasing engagements in a wide variety of fields.

Most recently, in 2018, he played several times at the Berlin Philharmonie, was able to win some of the most exclusive scholarships in Switzerland, and was invited by the WDR Symphony Orchestra to perform as a soloist at the Cologne Philharmonie. These successes were immediately followed by further invitations from orchestras throughout Germany. In New York, he wowed audiences with his performance at Steinway Hall as part of the “Classical Bridge Festival.”

He is also much in demand as a chamber musician and accompanist: he is regularly invited to chamber music festivals, worked for the Theater Basel as a répétiteur during his studies, and was even used as a music-making actor for two productions.

Dominic Chamot was a scholarship holder of the “Jürgen Ponto-Stiftung” and the “Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben” from 2011 to 2014. He is currently the recipient of the Migros Culture Percentage Study Awayrd and in 2020 he has been selected for the Lieven Piano Foundation Scholarship.

Pianist and critic Hannes Sonntag describes him like this: Dominic Chamot creates that lasting emotional experience for which alone we ultimately make or listen to music!

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