Julia Severus – Barjansky: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 1 (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Adolf Barjansky was born in Odessa into a wealthy Russian-Jewish family, and received his musical education in Vienna, Paris and Leipzig, studying piano with Carl Reinecke and Salomon Judassohn. Barjansky composed relatively few works, but his highly attractive and original piano music reveals the influence of Schubert, Beethoven and Brahms with a wealth of Russian colour, as heard in the Fantasy Pieces. The 6 Piano Pieces are impressionistic and radiant, while the large-scale Piano Sonata No. 1 uses spatial sound as a principal means of expression, blending it with a highly modern simplicity and transparency of structure that anticipates 20th-century minimalism.

Tracklist:
01. Julia Severus – Fantasy Pieces, Op. 9: No. 1, Presto (03:03)
02. Julia Severus – Fantasy Pieces, Op. 9: No. 2, Andante sostenuto (04:07)
03. Julia Severus – Fantasy Pieces, Op. 9: No. 3, Allegro giusto ma vivo (01:43)
04. Julia Severus – Fantasy Pieces, Op. 9: No. 4, Allegretto moderato (01:58)
05. Julia Severus – Fantasy Pieces, Op. 9: No. 5, Andante non troppo (02:46)
06. Julia Severus – Fantasy Pieces, Op. 9: No. 6, Con moto tranquillo (02:48)
07. Julia Severus – Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 7: I. Allegro maestoso (07:19)
08. Julia Severus – Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 7: II. Maestoso (06:40)
09. Julia Severus – Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 7: III. Presto (03:55)
10. Julia Severus – Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 7: IV. Allegro molto quasi presto ed appassionato (08:59)
11. Julia Severus – 6 Piano Pieces, Op. 10: No. 1, Near the Sea (04:05)
12. Julia Severus – 6 Piano Pieces, Op. 10: No. 2, Remembrance (03:35)
13. Julia Severus – 6 Piano Pieces, Op. 10: No. 3, Lullaby (05:20)
14. Julia Severus – 6 Piano Pieces, Op. 10: No. 4, Scherzo (01:16)
15. Julia Severus – 6 Piano Pieces, Op. 10: No. 5, A Happy Home (03:37)
16. Julia Severus – 6 Piano Pieces, Op. 10: No. 6, Devotion (02:54)