Mirka Pokorna - Mirka Pokorná - Klavír (2020)

From Drahomír Illík's commentary on the original LP album 1111 3648 "Mirka Pokorná - piano (Alexandr Skrjabin, Sergej Prokofjev") released by Supraphon in 1984 and now published for the first time digitally:
MIRKA POKORNÁ has been a great appearance of our interpretive piano school for several decades and is one of the leading soloists not only at home but also in Europe ... she studied piano at the Prague Academy of Music with prof. Ilona Štěpánová and prof. Bruno Seidelhofer at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. In 1951, she became a two-time winner - the Prague Spring International Music Festival and the International Festival of Youth and Students in Berlin. This marked the beginning of her artistic career and she became a participant in all major foreign and domestic music shows and concerts. She has performed independently with major world orchestras and conductors throughout Europe. In Moscow, Rome, London, Leningrad, Budapest, Leipzig, Dresden, Bucharest, Vienna, Salzburg, Madrid, Paris, etc. In Japan, she was one of the first Czechoslovak artists to visit the land of the rising sun after normalizing mutual relations disrupted by World War II ... .Although Mirka Pokorná's repertoire is extensive and includes all the classics of piano literature of all stylistic periods and genres, her favorite authors are romantics and avant-garde composers of the 20th century, in whose works she finds deep humanistic ideas and interprets a lyrically dreamy melody and the rhythmically urgent challenge of humanity to harmony, beauty and omniscience ... Her artistic activity is evenly divided between concert stages and recording studios of gramophone, radio and television. Mirka Pokorná has already recorded 15 gramophone LPs and today's one you are getting into your hands is the sixteenth ... She was the first pianist to premiere in 1951 the Czechoslovak premiere of Prokofiev's Concerto No. 1 and the suite from the ballet Romeo and Juliet. Gradually, compositions by Dmitri Shostakovich, Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin and Aram Khachaturian. On this gramophone record, he returns again to his long-standing loves - Scriabin and Prokofiev. They are works that are artistically mature and absolutely perfect in content and form, both in terms of composition and interpretation. In their performance, Mirka Pokorná once again proved that the shrub belongs to the top of our pianists.