Hoffmeister: Sonatas for Piano, Vol. 3 Biliana Tzinlikova

• Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754 - 1812): Sonata in D Major:
• 1I. Allegro08:45
• 2II. Poco adagio02:54
• 3III. Rondeau02:24
• Sonata in C Major:
• 4I. Allegro06:57
• 5II. Andante02:01
• 6III. Rondo. Allegro02:20
• Sonata in B Flat Major:
• 7I. Adagio10:19
• 8II. Allegretto02:46
• 9III. Variations: Andante14:51
• Total Runtime53:17

Info for Hoffmeister: Sonatas for Piano, Vol. 3

This is the last of three volumes of the first complete recording of Hoffmeister’s piano sonatas. The spirit of Mozart is discernible in the concise Sonata in D major, while the Sonata in C major is notable for a dramatic opening Allegro, followed by a searching Andante and a passionate Rondo. The Sonata in B flat major, the only Hoffmeister sonata to have a slow first movement and whose Andante finale takes a simple, folk-like theme and subjects it to a dozen variations, is one of his most experimental and forward-looking works.

„The third and final volume in the first complete recording of the piano sonatas by Franz Anton Hoffmeister, an Eighteenth century composer of a vast range of music. It included nine operas, some fifty symphonies, sixty concertos, and twenty keyboard sonatas and sonatinas, the present disc covering the 1790’s and probably as late as 1797, two of the three works known only in a manuscript copy by someone named ‘Politz’. All followed convention of a three movement structure, the central one being slow in the case of the D and C major, while the B flat—one of his most extended sonatas—concluding with an elaborate theme and variations. Thematically all three are among his finest in the genre, with melodies that please and do not pale on repeated hearing. Maybe the Rondo finales are all too brief to provide a balanced score, but the sonatas would have been aimed at the talented amateur who would purchase the sheet music from Hoffmeister’s publishing house. They would have delighted their audiences with the abundance of right hand decoration, and, as on previous volumes, the Bulgarian-born pianist, Biliana Tzinlikova, is daringly fast in the finale of the B flat sonata. Elsewhere she is always neat, crisp and cleanly delineated. Though the record sleeve does not make clear, I presume she is playing a fortepiano of outstanding quality.“ (David Denton, David’s Review Corner)

Biliana Tzinlikova, piano

Biliana Tzinlikova
has been heard in Vienna at the Bösendorfer Saal, Konzertgesellschaft für Musiktheater, the ORF Center and the Wiener Konzerthaus; Guildhall School for Music in London, the International Salzburg Mozart Week.

Ms. Tznlikova has collaborated with such personalities as Ruggiero Ricci, Thomas Riebl, Gustav Rivinius, Patrick Demenga, Ulf Schneider. An active chamber musician, she has been heard in IMS Prussia Cove, Cornwall, the Academie de Lausagne where she worked with the Duo Pierre Amoyal – Pavel Gililov.

Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, Biliana Tzinlikova received her musical education at the Special Music School for Talented Children in Pleven. She graduated in piano and pedagogy studies at the State Music Academy in Sofia with Marina Kapazinska(former student of Dmitri Baskirov). From 1995 to 2001 she studied at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg with Christoph Lieske, obtaining her M. Mus. degree. She has participated in piano and chamber music master classes with Arndzej Jaszinsky, Pierre Amoyal and Pavel Gililov (master class for violin-piano duo), Menahem Pressler, Alexander Lonquich, Ferenc Rados...

In 1984 she won the National Competition for Young Instrumentalists in Provadia and in 1987 the National Competition for young pianists in Rasgrad. In 1993 she won a prize for accompaniment in Pleven.

Ín 1998 she received the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture scholarship. In 1996 she was soloist at the "Aspekte" Festival in Salzburg under Joel Sachs, and at the Salzburger Mozartwoche in 1998. In 2001 she appeared with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Stefan Sanderling. She is often engaged by the International Summer Academy Mozarteum. She was official pianist at the 8th Salzburg International Competition in 2002. Biliana Tzinlikova plays solo and chamber music concerts throughout Europe.

Since 2002 she has held the post of faculty pianist at the Mozarteum University, and as a teacher at the Salzburg Music School. Miss Tznlikova makes her home in Salzburg.

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