Marko Tajčević: The Complete Piano Music
Tajčević (1900-84) was the leading Serbian composer of his day. His feisty piano music, recorded here in its entirety for the first time, takes its inspiration from Balkan folk dances, blending irregular rhythms, modal harmonies and catchy tunes to produce a bouquet of sparkling miniatures, close in spirit to Bartók’s folk-inspired piano pieces and bursting with energy and wit.
Radmila Stojanović-Kiriluk, piano
Listen To This Recording:
- Seven Balkan Dances (1926)
- 1. Con moto
- 2. Rustico
- 3. Vivo
- 4. Sostenuto e cantabile
- 5. Allegro ritmico
- 6. Allegretto
- 7. Allegro quasi pesante
- 1. Allegro tranquillo
- 2. Molto animato
- 3. Agitato
- 4. Molto sostenuto
- 5. Presto
- 1. Allegro
- 2. Semplice
- 3. Allegretto scherzando
- 4. Andante sostenuto e rubato
- 5. Con moto
- 6. Andantino
- 7. Vivo
- 8. Comodo
- 9. Allegro, quasi pesante, ma accelerando sin’ al fine
- 10. Andantino cantabile
- 11. Sostenuto, rubato
- 12. Allegretto, quasi scherzando
- 13. Allegro
- I. Allegro moderato
- II. Andante sostenuto
- 1. Moderato
- 2. Moderato, poco rubato
- 3. Allegro
- 4. Allegro
- 5. Allegretto
- Variations on a Theme in C minor (1948)
- 1. Moderato
- 2. Andantino Tranquillo
- 3. Allegro
- 4. Cantabile
- 5. Con Moto
- 6. Marciale
- I. Allegro
- II. Andante sostenuto, quasi ballata
- III. Allegro
- I. Con moto
- II. Andantino
- III. Allegro
- I. Allegretto
- II. Andante pastorale
- III. Vivo
- 1. Allegro
- 2. Allegro
- 3. Molto tranquillo
- 4. Allegretto
- 5. Allegro
- No. 1
- No. 2
- No. 3
- No. 4
- No. 5
- No. 6
- Tabatière à musique (1930)
Five Preludes (1935)
Songs from Mur Island (1938)
Sonatina (1923)
For Children (1938)
Sonatina (c. 1947)
Two Little Suites, No. 1 (1937)
Two Little Suites, No. 2 (1937)
For the Young (1935)
Six Miniatures (1920)
Mike Williams :
One of my favourite Toccata releases. Enormously appealing folk-inspired piano music.
Radmila Stojanović-Kiriluk is a real find. I heard some of her marvellous Bartok on Youtube too.