Anthology of Czech Piano Music

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DVORAK / JANACEK / SMETANA / SUK
Anthology of Czech Piano Music
Radoslav Kvapil (piano)

[ Regis Records / 4 CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 5 October 2004

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"..Kvapil plays the set with great understanding.. ability to characterize swiftly & surely..deft & sensitive.. recording no less sensitive.."
- Gramophone

"..Kvapil responds most vividly.. excellent record.. a sure touch.. interesting and well-executed performances.."
- Gramophone

"..Smetana's real originality is better revealed in the shorter pieces.. comparisons with Chopin & the Mazurka.. same ability to
take a national dance and turn it.. vehicle for a wide descriptive range.. far-reaching harmonic & rhythmic explorations.."
- Gramophone

"..excellent anthology of Suk's music.. Kvapil has their manner ideally. He can touch off a mood of gentleness or - wit or, more rarely, something almost wry.. most affecting recital.."
- Gramophone

Tracks:

CD ONE, Dvorak Piano Music:

1. Theme (tempo di minuetto) plus variations 1-8

2. Poetic Tone Pictures Op.85 On the Road at Night

3. Toying

4. At The Old Castle

5. Spring Song

6. Peasant's Ballad

7. Reverie

8. Furiant

9. Goblin's Dance

10. Serenade

11. Bacchanal

12. Tittle-Tattle

13. At a Hero's Grave

14. At Svata Hora


CD TWO, Janacek Piano Music:

1. On An Overgrown Path - Book I Our Evenings

2. A Leaf Blown By The Wind

3. Come With Us

4. The Virgin of Fyrdek

5. They Chatted Like Little Swallows

6. Words Fail Me!

7. Good Night!

8. Unutterable Anguish

9. In Tears

10. The Little Owl Still Calls

11. On An Overgrown Path - Book II Andante

12. Allegretto

13. Piu Mosso

14. Vivo

15. Allegro - Adagio

16. I:x:1905 (Piano Sonata) Con moto

17. Adagio

18. In The Mists Andante

19. Molto Adagio

20. Andantino

21. Presto

CD THREE, Smetana Piano Music:

1. Macbeth & The Witches

2. Dreams Bygone Happines

3. Consolation

4. In Bohemia - Country Tale

5. In The Salon

6. Before the Castle

7. Festival of Bohemian Country Folk

8. Three Poetic Polkas Polka in F# major

9. Polka in F minor

10. Polka in E major

11. Three Poetic Polkas Polka in Eb major

12. Polka in G minor

13. Polka in Ab major

14. Memories of Bohemia in Polka Form Op.12 Polka in A minor

15. Polka in E minor

16. Polka in E minor

17. Polka in Eb minor

CD FOUR, Suk Piano Music:

1. Piano Pieces Op.7 Love Song

2. Humoresque

3. Memories

4. Little Idylls

5. Dumka

6. Capricietto

7. Spring Op22a Spring

8. The Breeze

9. In Expectation

10. ***

11. Longing

12. Summer Impressions Op.22b At Noon

13. Children At Play

14. Evening Mood

15. About Mother Op.28 When Mother Was Still A Little Girl

16. Once in Springtime

17. How Mother Sang At Night To The Sick Child

18. About Mother's Heart

19. Remembering