Marko Tajčević: The Complete Piano Music

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Catalogue No: TOCC0041
EAN/UPC: 5060113440419
Release Date: 2009-03-12
Composer: Marko Tajčević
Artists: Radmila Stojanović-Kiriluk

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. 1. Con moto
  2. 2. Rustico
  3. 3. Vivo
  4. 4. Sostenuto e cantabile
  5. 5. Allegro ritmico
  6. 6. Allegretto
  7. 7. Allegro quasi pesante
  8. Five Preludes (1935)

  9. 1. Allegro tranquillo
  10. 2. Molto animato
  11. 3. Agitato
  12. 4. Molto sostenuto
  13. 5. Presto
  14. Songs from Mur Island (1938)

  15. 1. Allegro
  16. 2. Semplice
  17. 3. Allegretto scherzando
  18. 4. Andante sostenuto e rubato
  19. 5. Con moto
  20. 6. Andantino
  21. 7. Vivo
  22. 8. Comodo
  23. 9. Allegro, quasi pesante, ma accelerando sin’ al fine
  24. 10. Andantino cantabile
  25. 11. Sostenuto, rubato
  26. 12. Allegretto, quasi scherzando
  27. 13. Allegro
  28. Sonatina (1923)

  29. I. Allegro moderato
  30. II. Andante sostenuto
  31. 1. Moderato
  32. 2. Moderato, poco rubato
  33. 3. Allegro
  34. 4. Allegro
  35. 5. Allegretto
  36. Variations on a Theme in C minor (1948)
  37. For Children (1938)

  38. 1. Moderato
  39. 2. Andantino Tranquillo
  40. 3. Allegro
  41. 4. Cantabile
  42. 5. Con Moto
  43. 6. Marciale
  44. Sonatina (c. 1947)

  45. I. Allegro
  46. II. Andante sostenuto, quasi ballata
  47. III. Allegro
  48. Two Little Suites, No. 1 (1937)

  49. I. Con moto
  50. II. Andantino
  51. III. Allegro
  52. Two Little Suites, No. 2 (1937)

  53. I. Allegretto
  54. II. Andante pastorale
  55. III. Vivo
  56. For the Young (1935)

  57. 1. Allegro
  58. 2. Allegro
  59. 3. Molto tranquillo
  60. 4. Allegretto
  61. 5. Allegro
  62. Six Miniatures (1920)

  63. No. 1
  64. No. 2
  65. No. 3
  66. No. 4
  67. No. 5
  68. No. 6
  69. Tabatière à musique (1930)

2 reviews for Marko Tajčević: The Complete Piano Music

  1. :

    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.

  2. :

    ‘Toccata Classics are a constant reproach to critics of the labels condemned for their allegiance to crossover and mainstream. They call our bluff and do it with panache and intellectual polish. Their choice of repertoire is freewheeling, their performers are adepts and their documentation is second to none.

    So it is with this disc featuring the complete piano music of Marx and Springer pupil, the Croatian composer Marko Tajčević. Toccata’s Martin Anderson has always been a fantastically well informed scout for new composer opportunities. As expected, his judgement proves unerring here too. Radmila Stojanović-Kiriluk tackles these short and generally smiling short pieces with an imaginative skirl and deftly spun nationalism.’

    —Rob Barnett, MusicWeb International

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