Smetana - Piano Works
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Label: Supraphon
Cat No: SU38472
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 26th January 2015
Contents
Works
Andante in F majorEtude in A minor 'in Liedform'
Etude in C major 'in Praeludienform'
Figuration in E minor on a Chorale 'Gott sei uns gnadig und barmherzig'
Four-part fugue in A minor
Four-part fugue in C major
Four-part fugue in D major
Kriegermarsch in D major
Landlicher marsch in B flat major
March in C minor
March in F major
Notturno in E flat major
Piano Sonata in G minor
Piece in C major
Piece in C minor
Polka in E flat major
Rondo in A minor
Rondo in C major
Rondo in D minor
Rondo in F major
Sonatanform in A major
Sonatanform in B flat major
Sonatanform in C major
Three-part fugue in E minor
Trauer Marsch in F minor
Variations on a theme of Bohemian Folk Song
Vivace in F major
Artists
Jitka Cechova (piano)Works
Andante in F majorEtude in A minor 'in Liedform'
Etude in C major 'in Praeludienform'
Figuration in E minor on a Chorale 'Gott sei uns gnadig und barmherzig'
Four-part fugue in A minor
Four-part fugue in C major
Four-part fugue in D major
Kriegermarsch in D major
Landlicher marsch in B flat major
March in C minor
March in F major
Notturno in E flat major
Piano Sonata in G minor
Piece in C major
Piece in C minor
Polka in E flat major
Rondo in A minor
Rondo in C major
Rondo in D minor
Rondo in F major
Sonatanform in A major
Sonatanform in B flat major
Sonatanform in C major
Three-part fugue in E minor
Trauer Marsch in F minor
Variations on a theme of Bohemian Folk Song
Vivace in F major
Artists
Jitka Cechova (piano)About
“With God’s help and favour, I will one day be a Liszt in technique, a Mozart in composing” - so wrote Smetana in his diary in January 1843. This sentence reflects the sheer determination and confidence in his own talent that compelled the 19 year old composer – in defiance of his parents – to leave for Prague so as to continue his studies and eventually become one of the best-known Czech music creators. The beginning of his journey was fraught with tough, uncertain material conditions, and the young Smetana had to be tenacious indeed.
Jitka Čechová’s new recording features early pieces written in 1845 and 1846, years of intensive study and the outset of Smetana’s independent artistic career. Many of them are being released on CD for the very first time; some of them were used by the composer in his later works or revised.
The pianist Jitka Čechová has completed the seventh instalment of the currently most comprehensive recording of Bedřich Smetana’s piano works. Owing to her zest and faultless interpretation, we now have the opportunity to savour this remarkable and still underestimated layer of Smetana’s oeuvre within the context of the greatest 19th century composers of piano music.
Recorded at the Martínek Studio, Prague in 2014.
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