Smetana & Liszt - Piano Works
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Label: Supraphon
Cat No: SU42802
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 22nd May 2020
Contents
Works
Confutatis und Lacrymosa aus dem Requiem K626 von Mozart, S550Rigoletto Paraphrase, S434
Bagatelles and Impromptus (8)
Macbeth and The Witches
On the Sea Shore - A Memory
Sketches (Skizzen), op.5
Artists
Miroslav Sekera (piano)Works
Confutatis und Lacrymosa aus dem Requiem K626 von Mozart, S550Rigoletto Paraphrase, S434
Bagatelles and Impromptus (8)
Macbeth and The Witches
On the Sea Shore - A Memory
Sketches (Skizzen), op.5
Artists
Miroslav Sekera (piano)About
Liszt was a great model for Smetana, as documented by a note in the Czech composer’s diary: “With God’s grace and help, one day I will be like Liszt in technique and like Mozart in composition.” The correspondence and several personal encounters between Liszt and Smetana ultimately led to a friendship. Yet whereas Liszt’s piano works have enjoyed great attention, Smetana’s piano music is yet to become widely known and acknowledged. The very first cycle of characteristic pieces, Bagatelles et Impromptus (1844), written by Smetana at the age of 20, featured traits that would be palpable throughout his piano oeuvre. His five-year stay in Gothenburg and conversations with Liszt enhanced Smetana’s penchant for programme music. This inclination of his reflected in several virtuoso piano works dating from that time, including the piano poem Macbeth and the etude On the Seashore. Sekera’s performance reveals to the full Smetana’s genius and singularity, which we know from his symphonic poems, but are only now discovering in his piano music.
Recorded in Prague at the Martinů Hall, Academy of Performing Arts, 27 and 28 December 2019.
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