Featured publications are selected for review by ANDREW EALES
Find out more: ABOUT PIANODAO REVIEWS
Egon Wellesz is one of those great pioneers of 20th century music who perhaps hasn’t yet been given his due either by historians or audiences.
Wellesz’s Sechs Klavierstücke (Six Piano Pieces) op.26 were composed in 1919 but are only now, a century later, appearing in print as a complete work. Perhaps finally their significance within the music to have emerged from Vienna in those decisive early decades of the twentieth century will finally be recognised…
Continue reading Egon Wellesz: Sechs Klavierstücke op.26