Antoine Reicha: Complete Piano Music, Volume Two

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Catalogue No: TOCC0017
EAN/UPC: 5060113440174
Release Date: 2017-08-01
Composer: Anton Reicha
Artists: Henrik Löwenmark

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)

  1. No. 1 in C minor – Allegro
  2. No. 2 in E major – Allegro
  3. No. 3 in C major – Allegro moderato
  4. No. 4 in E flat major – Allegro assai
  5. No. 5 in E minor – Allegro
  6. No. 6 in F minor – Allegro
  7. Étude de piano ou 57 variations sur un même thème, suivies d’un Rondeau, Op. 102 Thème

  8. Allegretto poco andante
  9. Variation 1
  10. Variation 2
  11. Variation 3
  12. Variation 4
  13. Variation 5
  14. Variation 6
  15. Variation 7
  16. Variation 8
  17. Variation 9
  18. Variation 10
  19. Variation 11
  20. Variation 12
  21. Variation 13
  22. Variation 12: Reprise
  23. Variation 14
  24. Variation 15
  25. Variation 16
  26. Variation 17
  27. Variation 18
  28. Variation 19
  29. Variation 20
  30. Variation 21, Marcia
  31. Variation 22
  32. Variation 23
  33. Variation 24
  34. Variation 25, La Bizarre
  35. Variation 26
  36. Variation 27
  37. Variation 28
  38. Variation 29, Folies dEspagne
  39. Variation 30
  40. Variation 31
  41. Variation 32
  42. Variation 33
  43. Variation 34
  44. Variation 35
  45. Variation 36
  46. Variation 37
  47. Variation 38, Pastorale
  48. Variation 39, La Tempete
  49. Variation 40, Le Calme
  50. Variation 41
  51. Variation 42
  52. Variation 43
  53. Variation 44
  54. Variation 45
  55. Variation 46
  56. Variation 47
  57. Variation 48
  58. Variation 49
  59. Variation 50
  60. Variation 51, Le Badinage
  61. Variation 52
  62. Variation 53
  63. Variation 54, Le Desespoir
  64. Variation 55, La Chasse
  65. Variation 56
  66. Variation 54: Reprise
  67. Variation 57
  68. Rondo – Allegretto

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

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    ‘The performances make the best case possible for the music with sympathetic playing throughout.’

    —Jonathan Woolf, MusicWeb International

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