Spätlese / Late Harvest Andreas Eggertsberger

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Fantasy in C minor, K. 475:
• 1 Mozart: Fantasy in C minor, K. 475 11:12
• Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K. 457:
• 2 Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K. 457 - I - Allegro molto 08:19
• 3 Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K. 457 - II - Adagio 07:47
• 4 Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K. 457 - III - Allegro assai 04:36
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897): Three Intermezzi for piano, Op. 117:
• 5 Brahms: Three Intermezzi for piano, Op. 117 - I - Andante moderato 04:40
• 6 Brahms: Three Intermezzi for piano, Op. 117 - II - Andante non troppo e con molta espressione 03:55
• 7 Brahms: Three Intermezzi for piano, Op. 117 - III - Andante con moto 04:59
• Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849): Piano Sonata in B minor, Op. 58:
• 8 Chopin: Piano Sonata in B minor, Op. 58 - I - Allegro maestoso 12:38
• 9 Chopin: Piano Sonata in B minor, Op. 58 - II - Scherzo. Molto vivace 02:40
• 10 Chopin: Piano Sonata in B minor, Op. 58 - III - Largo 08:02
• 11 Chopin: Piano Sonata in B minor, Op. 58 - IV - Finale. Presto non tanto 05:30
• Total Runtime 01:14:18

Info for Spätlese / Late Harvest

The pianist Andreas Eggertsberger, who studied in Austria and the USA with Karl Heinz Kammerling and Oleg Maisenberg, among others, deals with the late works of three composers on his new album "Spatlese" (Late Harvest): Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms and Frederic Chopin. Whether a work is considered a late work has less to do with the composer's age and more to do with where the breaking points and further developments are in a composer's oeuvre. Some of the three selected masters were still young when they entered their late phase: Mozart was in his late twenties when he composed his Fantasia K. 475 and Sonata in C minor K. 457, Chopin was thirty-four when he composed his third and final Sonata in B minor, and Brahms was fifty-nine when he composed his Three Intermezzi op. 117. Many a future is anticipated. Mozart, for example, builds a bridge to Beethoven with his Fantasy and Sonata in C minor. Chopin, on the other hand, takes a look at late Romanticism and beyond with his increasingly bold harmonies, and Brahms foreshadows musical developments that would only become influential in the 20th century.

Andreas Eggertsberger, piano

Andreas Eggertsberger
was born in Linz where he studied piano with Gottfried Hemetsberger at the Bruckner Conservatory (now Bruckner University). He graduated at the age of 15 with distinction and proceeded with his studies in Salzburg and Vienna with K. H. Kämmerling and O. Maisenberg. Later he has also studied with Thomas Hecht, a former student of Leon Fleisher, at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory in Singapore. In 2013 he finished his doctorate at University of Michigan as a student of the renowned pianist Arthur Greene. He visited Master classes with Paul Badura Skoda, L. Hoffmann, J. O’Conor, A. Nassedkin, D. Leljak, J. Rouvier, I. Kaltchev and M. Masaki.

He has won several prices on a national and international level: “Jugend musiziert”, “Ettlingen”, “Yamaha Scholarship” in Vienna and the “Gradus ad Parnassum” Competition and Louisiana International Piano Competition (Semifinalist). He appeared in the Brucknerhaus at the age of 13 and played his first piano concerto with the Bruckner orchestra in the same year. He also won the Taras Gabora prize of the Casalmaggiore International Festival 2012 for his interpretation of Beethoven’s Sonata Op.106.

Eggertsberger has appeared in concerts in Europe and Asia. He has played in the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Queen Victoria Hall, Esplanade Singapore, Beethovenhaus Bonn and others. He has made projects together with the Austrian pianist Jörg Demus and Nella Hunkins, the solo cellist of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. He is invited regularly by the EPTA (European Piano Teachers Association) to international conferences. He made recordings for radio, TV and CD in Austria and abroad.

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