Carl Czerny - Recordings

Recordings

Signum Records recently issued at least three CD recordings of Czerny's symphonies and concerti, including a concerto for piano four hands in C major. In fact, the view of Czerny as primarily a composer of didactic works is being challenged, as can be seen in the review cited below of a Sony Classical CD of some of Czerny's four-hand works. Nimbus Records is in course of issuing recordings of all 11 of Czerny's solo piano sonatas, played by Martin Jones. His Symphony No. 1 ('Grand Symphony') was even issued on a CD supplement to an issue of BBC Music Magazine.

Sony Classics issued a recording of Piano Music for Four Hands by Czerny with the piano duo Yaara Tal and Andreas Groethuysen in 1991, and the CD label Analekta released a recording of two Czerny Piano Sonatas, as well as his Funeral March on the Death of Beethoven, Op. 146, with the Canadian pianist, Anton Kuerti in 1997 .

In June 2002 the Wirth institute for Austrian and Central European Studies of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, mounted a three-day "Carl Czerny Music Festival," under the artistic direction of the Canadian pianist Anton Kuerti. The Festival included (according to best research available) a number of world premiere performances from Czerny manuscripts held by Vienna's Society of the Friends of Music, and most of it was recorded and subsequently broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In the wake of the Festival Kuerti and the Canadian violinist Erika Raum recorded Czerny's Sonata for Piano and Violin in A Major of 1807 and his twenty Variations for Piano and Violin on a Theme by Krumpholz, Op. 1, for CBC Records, which they had initially premiered at the Festival. In 2006 Grzegorz Nowak, the then conductor of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, who premiered the Czerny's 6th Symphony at the Festival, recorded the same work with the SWR Rundfunkorchestrer Kaiserlauten on Hänssler Classic . Finally, in 2012, as part of a cooperative venture between the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies, CBC Radio and the record label DOREMI, a three-CD set of live performances of works performed at the Festival was released by DOREMI . The DOREMI set includes two string quartets, two fugatos for string quintet, a Piano Trio, a Piano Quartet, a Serenade Concertante, two Overtures, an Offertorium, five Lieder, and etude for piano and Variations Brilliantes on a theme of Bellini for Piano 6 hands.