Altwegg - Freda Swain: Piano Music, Vol. 1

The English composer-pianist Freda Swain (1902�85) left behind a huge legacy of music that was largely unknown even during her own lifetime. Her compositions � hundreds of them, in a series of large boxes � found their way to the Swiss pianist Timon Altwegg, who begins his survey of her piano music with these three mighty sonatas. They are astonishing discoveries: big-boned, virtuosic pieces, full of wild energy, crossing from late Romanticism to a more modern idiom � from Rachmaninov to Bart�k, so to speak.