Antoine Reicha: Complete Piano Music, Volume Five

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Catalogue No: TOCC0483
EAN/UPC: 5060113444837
Release Date: 2023-01-06
Composer: Anton Reicha
Artists: Henrik Löwenmark

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The piano music of the Czech-born composer Antoine Reicha (1770–1836) – friend of Haydn and Beethoven, teacher of Berlioz, Liszt and Franck – has only recently begun to be discovered. He was an important influence on composers of the next generation but until recent years his piano works remained almost completely unknown. Encompassing Baroque practices, as well as looking forward to the twentieth century, they are full of harmonic and other surprises that show this liveliest of musical minds at work. In this fifth volume of his survey of Reicha’s piano music Henrik Löwenmark demonstrates the breadth of Reicha’s quixotic imagination, with three variation sets and a number of smaller character pieces.

Henrik Löwenmark piano

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Variations in E flat major, Op. 83 (c. 1815)

Thème – Poco allegretto

Var. 1

Var. 2

Var. 3

Var. 4

Var. 5

Var. 6

Var. 7

Var. 8

Var. 9

Var. 10

Var. 11

Var. 12

Var. 13

Var. 14

Var. 15 – Andante maestoso

Var. 16 – Allegretto

Coda – Allegro assai

Deux Fantaisies, Op. 31 (c. 1800)

No. 1 Andante un poco Allegretto*

No. 2 Allegro

La Chercheuse d’esprit (c. 1800)

No. 1 – Andante

No. 2 – Andante un poco allegretto

No. 3 – Lento

No. 4 – Allegro

No. 5 – Adagio

No. 6 – Allegro assai

No. 7 – Andante un poco lento

No. 8 – Allegretto

No. 9 – Largo di molto

No. 10 – Allegro

No. 11 – Lento

No. 12 – Allegretto un poco andante

No. 13 – Allegro

Fugue instrumentale à 3 dans le style modern (c. 1822)

Poco Allegretto

Un poco andante (c. 1797?-1803?)

Un poco andante

Variations sur l’air Charmante Gabrielle, Op. 85 (c. 1815)

Thème – Andante

Var. 1 – Con più moto

Var. 2 – Legato

Var. 3

Var. 4

Var. 5

Var. 6

Var. 7

Var. 8

Var. 9

Var. 10 et Coda – Allegro assai

Marche funèbre (c. 1800)

Andante maestoso, Trio – Allegretto

Variations sur un thème de Gluck, Op. 87 (c. 1815)

Thème – Allegretto

Var. 1 – Con più moto

Var. 2 – Tempo primo

Var. 3

Var. 4

Var. 5

Var. 6

Var. 7

Var. 8

Var. 9

Var. 10

Var. 11

Var. 12

Var. 13 – Adagio

Var. 14 – Allegretto

Coda – Allegro assai

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1 review for Antoine Reicha: Complete Piano Music, Volume Five

Nineteenth-Century Music Review :

‘His piano music is special, however, as this genre best reflects Reicha’s multidisciplinary approach as a music theorist, pedagogue and composer. […]

Löwenmark has published and presented musicological essays about Reicha’s piano music,and he provides very detailed historical and analytical liner notes for this series. This series thus provides a well-balanced platform from which to get acquainted with Reicha’s musical, pedagogical and theoretical thinking. […]

These and the other pieces of volume 5 confirm Reicha’s immense creativity. Their exploration is rewarded with a better understanding of the stylistic breadthbof piano music of the first two decades of the nineteenth century. Löwenmark’s excellent performance fits the characteristics of these quite diverse pieces, and his informative liner notes are valuable and meaningful resources for further studies of Reicha’s compositions and the underlying theoretical considerations.’

—Frank Heidlberger, Nineteenth-Century Music Review

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