Ian Hobson - Moritz Moszkowski: Complete Music for Solo Piano, Vol.2

Although Moritz Moszkowski (1854�1925) wrote a considerable quantity of piano music, only a single piece, �etincelles�, made it into the repertoire, not least because Horowitz enjoyed playing it. The early works on this second instalment in Ian Hobson�s survey of Moszkowski�s complete music for solo piano reveal a debt to Mendelssohn and Schumann, but the effortless craftsmanship to be heard here already justifies a later remark of Paderewski�s: �After Chopin, Moszkowski best understands how to write for the piano, and his writing embraces the whole gamut of piano technique�. Most of the pieces in Opp. 15 and 18 are attractive salon miniatures, but the Three Piano Pieces in Dance Form, Op. 17, are extended Lisztian essays that showcase Moszkowski�s mastery of the keyboard and his command of form.