Antoine Reicha: Complete Piano Music, Volume Two
The piano works of the Czech-born composer Antoine Reicha (1770–1836) – friend of Haydn and Beethoven, teacher of Berlioz, Liszt and Franck – is one of the best-kept secrets in music. He was an important influence on composers of the next generation, but apart from an innovative set of fugues his piano works have remained almost unknown since his own day. 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 minds at work. The massive variation-set on a French gavotte recorded here for the first time reveals a composer who tempers his learning with a vivid sense of humour.
Henrik Löwenmark, piano
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Six Fugues, Op. 81 (publ. c. 1810)
- No. 1 in C minor – Allegro
- No. 2 in E major – Allegro
- No. 3 in C major – Allegro moderato
- No. 4 in E flat major – Allegro assai
- No. 5 in E minor – Allegro
- No. 6 in F minor – Allegro
- Allegretto poco andante
- Variation 1
- Variation 2
- Variation 3
- Variation 4
- Variation 5
- Variation 6
- Variation 7
- Variation 8
- Variation 9
- Variation 10
- Variation 11
- Variation 12
- Variation 13
- Variation 12: Reprise
- Variation 14
- Variation 15
- Variation 16
- Variation 17
- Variation 18
- Variation 19
- Variation 20
- Variation 21, Marcia
- Variation 22
- Variation 23
- Variation 24
- Variation 25, La Bizarre
- Variation 26
- Variation 27
- Variation 28
- Variation 29, Folies dEspagne
- Variation 30
- Variation 31
- Variation 32
- Variation 33
- Variation 34
- Variation 35
- Variation 36
- Variation 37
- Variation 38, Pastorale
- Variation 39, La Tempete
- Variation 40, Le Calme
- Variation 41
- Variation 42
- Variation 43
- Variation 44
- Variation 45
- Variation 46
- Variation 47
- Variation 48
- Variation 49
- Variation 50
- Variation 51, Le Badinage
- Variation 52
- Variation 53
- Variation 54, Le Desespoir
- Variation 55, La Chasse
- Variation 56
- Variation 54: Reprise
- Variation 57
- Rondo – Allegretto
Étude de piano ou 57 variations sur un même thème, suivies d’un Rondeau, Op. 102 Thème
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