Todd A
pfm Member
In 2019, Herbert Schuch released Bagatellen, which mixed and matched bagatelles by Beethoven and Ligeti. It was and remains a knockout disc in every way, and shows that it is not such a long way, compositionally, between the two composers.
Melissa Galosi had done something similar a few years earlier with Mozart and Kurtág, blending three sets of the former's variations, split up, and selections from the latter's Játékok. At first, the contrast sounds much more stark, but as the disc moves on, some of the tracks blend together more seamlessly than one might suspect going in. A sense of fun and joy pervades the disc, and the concept works. Galosi does not match Schuch's awesome pianisim, but she does not need to. A splendid disc.