Edmund Dawe

“In Dawe’s hands the many moods of the music were expressed with brilliance and clarity and a distinct picture emerged… He commanded the keyboard.”

Sudbury Star

Discography

Recorded at the CBC Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto, Sonatas and Engravings feature an eclectic collection of works spanning close to three centuries: Scarlatti, Bach-Busoni, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Prokofiev, Ginastera, and Copland.

SONATAS

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757): Sonatas

F Minor, K. 69

G Major, K. 13

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 31, No. 3

Allegro

Scherzo: Allegretto vivace

Menuetto: Moderato e grazioso

Presto con fuoco

Frederic Chopin (1810-1849): Sonata in B-flat Minor, Op. 35

Grave-Doppio movimento

Scherzo

Marche funébre

Presto

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953): Sonata No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 28

Allegro tempestoso

Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983): Sonata No. 2, Op. 53

Allegramente

Adagio sereno - Scorrevole-Ripresa dell'Adagio

Feroce

ENGRAVINGS

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Funérailles

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Rondo in D major, KV 485

Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Estampes

Pagodes

La soirée dans Gernade

Jardins sous la pluie

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Opus 110

Moderato cantabile molto expressivo

Allegro molto

Adagio ma non troppo

Fuga: Allegro ma non troppo- L'istesso tempo
di arioso-L'istesso tempo della
Fuga poi a poi di nuovo vivente

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): arr. Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

Ich ruf zu dir, herr, BWV 639

Aaron Copland (1900-1990): Three Moods

embittered

wistful

jazzy