{"product_id":"krenek-piano-music-vol-2","title":"Krenek: Piano Music, Vol. 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis first extended survey of the piano music of Ernst Krenek (1900–92) continues with a range of works showing his craftsmanship and imagination – and humor. The early Toccata and Chaconne, Op. 13, has its origins in a joke intended to pull the legs of musicologists and music critics, but it develops into a massive contrapuntal essay of astonishing ambit. Krenek’s treatment of Baroque and contemporary dances in the three early suites reveal a fondness for learned whimsy – and that wry dispassion informs even the elegiac and brittle Fifth Sonata, written a quarter-century later in American exile. The closing Sechs Vermessene are kaleidoscopic miniatures with an improvised quality, as if advanced musical modernism were meeting the freest of free jazz.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Toccata","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":49604774527256,"sku":"5060113443991","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/4346\/3192\/files\/3826295-2574846.jpg?v=1777638602","url":"https:\/\/hbdirect.com\/products\/krenek-piano-music-vol-2","provider":"HBDirect","version":"1.0","type":"link"}