Artist: Yang Liu
Album: Schubert: German Dances, Ländlers & Écossaises
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2022
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24bit, 44,1 kHz
Duration: 01:15:37
Total Tracks: 18
Total Size: 549 MB

Tracklist:

01. Yang Liu – German Dance in C-Sharp Major, D. 139 (01:50)
02. Yang Liu – German Dance in G-Flat Major, D. 722 (00:46)
03. Yang Liu – 8 Ecossaises, D. 977 (03:03)
04. Yang Liu – 2 German Dances, D. 841 (01:33)
05. Yang Liu – 12 German Dances, Op. Posth. 171, D. 790 (09:12)
06. Yang Liu – 3 German Dances, D. 971 (02:06)
07. Yang Liu – 3 German Dances, D. 973 (02:19)
08. Yang Liu – 6 German Dances, D. 820 (04:51)
09. Yang Liu – Cotillon in E-Flat Major, D. 976 (00:37)
10. Yang Liu – 2 Ländler in E-Flat Major, D. 980b (00:57)
11. Yang Liu – 6 German Dances, D. 970 (03:39)
12. Yang Liu – 2 German Dances, D. 769 (01:12)
13. Yang Liu – 4 Comic Ländler, D. 354 (Arr. for Piano) (02:03)
14. Yang Liu – 3 Ecossaises, D. 816 (01:02)
15. Yang Liu – 12 Viennese German Dances, D. 128 (09:35)
16. Yang Liu – 6 Minuets for Winds, D. 2d: No. 1 in C Major (Excerpt Arr. for Piano) – 2 Ländler in D-Flat Major, D. 980c: Ländler No. 2 [Completed by Y. Liu] – 6 Minuets for Winds, D. 2d: No. 2 in F Major (Excerpt Arr. for Piano) (06:51)
17. Yang Liu – 36 Originaltänze, Op. 9, D. 365 “Erste Walzer” (21:56)
18. Yang Liu – Grazer Galopp in C Major, D. 925 (01:57)

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Schubert was known in his time primarily as a composer of songs, but he was also a master of the dance form and wrote prolifically for a middle-class society eager for domestic entertainment. He loved Ländler (triple time country dances), the Écossaises (supposedly Scottish), and the rich variety of genial German dances. Viennese pianos of the day produced a sound that was clear and transparent, very different from modern instruments, and in this recording Yang Liu plays on a Steinway grand and a copy of a mid-1820s fortepiano by Conrad Graf, a maker well known to Schubert.