Ignaz Brüll - Piano Sonata in D Minor,

- - - - Intro : [0:00] I. Moderato [0:05] II. Scherzo [7:59] III. Andante [13:32] IV. Allegro moderato[20:12] - - - - Piano : Alexandra Oehler - - - - Ignaz Brüll was a Moravian-born pianist and composer who lived and worked in Vienna. His operatic compositions included Das Goldene Kreuz (The Golden Cross), which became a repertory work for several decades after its first production in 1875, but eventually fell into neglect after being banned by the Nazis because of Brüll’s Jewish origins. He also wrote a small corpus of finely crafted works for the concert hall and recitals. Brüll’s compositional style was lively but unabashedly conservative, in the vein of Mendelssohn and Schumann.