Complete Piano Works
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JANACEK
Complete Piano Works
Håkon Austbø (piano)
[ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Monday 20 October 2008
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The year 2004 commemorated the 150th anniversary of the birth of Leos Janacek, one of Czech's most famous and original composers.
Janacek's music is highly personal, his language immediately recognizable: short, almost aphoristic motives form the basis of a highly dramatic discourse.
His piano works include the famous Piano Sonata (written after the death of a man during a worker's demonstration), the highly attractive cycle "On an overgrown path" (short pieces of sometimes violent, sometimes painfully intimate emotions), the cycle "In the mist", and series on Czech and Moravian folk melodies.
Norwegian pianist Hakon Austbö already recorded extensively for Brilliant Classics (Satie, Brahms Klavierstücke, Grieg Lyrische Stücke), and proves himself again a true master in the short form, completely identifying himself with the composer and his inner thoughts.
Tracks:
Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 in E flat minor, JW VIII/19 'From the Street'
Along an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17, Book 1
Along an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17, Book 2
In the Mists
6 miniatures
Intimate Sketches
Tema con variazioni (Zdenka's Variations)
In Remembrance, JW VIII/9
Moravian Dances (3), JW VIII/12 & 18
Hudba ke krouzení kuzely
Své Olze (To my Olga)
Reminiscence, JW 8/32
