Roberto Plano - Smetana: Piano Music (2014)
BAND/ARTIST: Roberto Plano
- Title: Smetana: Piano Music
- Year Of Release: 2014
- Label: Brilliant Classics
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
- Total Time: 01:16:40
- Total Size: 265 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Andante in E-Flat Major, JB1:62
02. Pensée fugitive in D Minor, JB1:24
03. Album Leaves, Op. 2: I. Prelude. Allegro
04. Album Leaves, Op. 2: II. Chanson. Moderato
05. Album Leaves, Op. 2: III. Vivace
06. Album Leaves, Op. 2: IV. Allegro commodo, Sempre marcato
07. Album Leaves, Op. 2: V. Moderato con anima
08. Album Leaves, Op. 2: VI. Andante ma non troppo
09. Characteristic Pieces, Op. 3: I. To Robert Schumann
10. Characteristic Pieces, Op. 3: II. Wayfarer's Song
11. Characteristic Pieces, Op. 3: III. "It Boils and It Roars"
12. Sketches, Op. 4: I. Prelude
13. Sketches, Op. 4: II. Idyll
14. Sketches, Op. 4: III. Memory
15. Sketches, Op. 4: IV. Persistent Endeavour
16. Sketches, Op. 5: I. Scherzo – Polka
17. Sketches, Op. 5: II. Melancholy
18. Sketches, Op. 5: III. Friendly Landscape
19. Sketches, Op. 5: IV. Rhapsody
20. Album Leaf in B-Flat Major, JB1:46 (Allegretto ma non troppo)
21. Album Leaf in B Minor, JB1:32 (Allegro)
22. Album Leaf, JB1:53 (Toccatina)
23. Album Leaf in G Major, JB2:21 (Trio)
24. Album Leaf in E-Flat Minor, JB1:54 (Lento)
25. Album Leaf in B-Flat Minor, JB1:52 (Con moto)
26. Album Leaf for Katerina Kolarova, JB1:20 (Moderato)
27. Album Leaf for Elisabeth F. Thun, JB1:25 (Allegro)
28. Album Leaf for Josephine Finke, JB1:21 (Agitato)
29. Album Leaf for Jean Kunz, JB1:22 (Allegro)
30. Album Leaf for Václav Ulwer, JB1:23 (Grave)
31. Album Leaf for Marie Proksch, JB1:81 (Moderato)
32. Album Leaf in F Minor, JB1:117 (Andante)
33. Album Leaf in G Minor, JB1:121 (Romance)
This will be quite a discovery for those who know the music of Bedrich Smetana only through his grand and nationalistic cycle of tone-poems, Ma Vlast, even if they are yet familiar with his more painfully intimate string quartets or his folkloristic operas. For Smetana, like most composers, needed to eat; and to do so he was happy to make his own contribution towards satisfying the seemingly insatiable appetite of the bourgeois 19th-century public for piano music that they could perform at home. Music of no great difficulty but boundless charm, these miniatures are now seldom heard and even less often recorded, and this is a shame, for works such as the Op.3 Characteristic Pieces show how the pianistic extroversion of Brahms and Liszt (who was a great admirer and supporter of the young Smetana, giving him valuable introductions to publishers) could be adapted to a domestic context, and with the particular inflection of Czech and Bohemian character, derived not only from simple and song-like melodies but also irregularly stressed dance-rhythms that the young Italian pianist Roberto Plano relishes to the full on this welcome new survey. As Plano himself remarks in the booklet notes for the release, the late works embody all the sincerity and essential poetry of the composer’s style, all the more treasurable for their emergence against the odds as Smetana battled with deafness and the mental illness that would cut short his life.
01. Andante in E-Flat Major, JB1:62
02. Pensée fugitive in D Minor, JB1:24
03. Album Leaves, Op. 2: I. Prelude. Allegro
04. Album Leaves, Op. 2: II. Chanson. Moderato
05. Album Leaves, Op. 2: III. Vivace
06. Album Leaves, Op. 2: IV. Allegro commodo, Sempre marcato
07. Album Leaves, Op. 2: V. Moderato con anima
08. Album Leaves, Op. 2: VI. Andante ma non troppo
09. Characteristic Pieces, Op. 3: I. To Robert Schumann
10. Characteristic Pieces, Op. 3: II. Wayfarer's Song
11. Characteristic Pieces, Op. 3: III. "It Boils and It Roars"
12. Sketches, Op. 4: I. Prelude
13. Sketches, Op. 4: II. Idyll
14. Sketches, Op. 4: III. Memory
15. Sketches, Op. 4: IV. Persistent Endeavour
16. Sketches, Op. 5: I. Scherzo – Polka
17. Sketches, Op. 5: II. Melancholy
18. Sketches, Op. 5: III. Friendly Landscape
19. Sketches, Op. 5: IV. Rhapsody
20. Album Leaf in B-Flat Major, JB1:46 (Allegretto ma non troppo)
21. Album Leaf in B Minor, JB1:32 (Allegro)
22. Album Leaf, JB1:53 (Toccatina)
23. Album Leaf in G Major, JB2:21 (Trio)
24. Album Leaf in E-Flat Minor, JB1:54 (Lento)
25. Album Leaf in B-Flat Minor, JB1:52 (Con moto)
26. Album Leaf for Katerina Kolarova, JB1:20 (Moderato)
27. Album Leaf for Elisabeth F. Thun, JB1:25 (Allegro)
28. Album Leaf for Josephine Finke, JB1:21 (Agitato)
29. Album Leaf for Jean Kunz, JB1:22 (Allegro)
30. Album Leaf for Václav Ulwer, JB1:23 (Grave)
31. Album Leaf for Marie Proksch, JB1:81 (Moderato)
32. Album Leaf in F Minor, JB1:117 (Andante)
33. Album Leaf in G Minor, JB1:121 (Romance)
This will be quite a discovery for those who know the music of Bedrich Smetana only through his grand and nationalistic cycle of tone-poems, Ma Vlast, even if they are yet familiar with his more painfully intimate string quartets or his folkloristic operas. For Smetana, like most composers, needed to eat; and to do so he was happy to make his own contribution towards satisfying the seemingly insatiable appetite of the bourgeois 19th-century public for piano music that they could perform at home. Music of no great difficulty but boundless charm, these miniatures are now seldom heard and even less often recorded, and this is a shame, for works such as the Op.3 Characteristic Pieces show how the pianistic extroversion of Brahms and Liszt (who was a great admirer and supporter of the young Smetana, giving him valuable introductions to publishers) could be adapted to a domestic context, and with the particular inflection of Czech and Bohemian character, derived not only from simple and song-like melodies but also irregularly stressed dance-rhythms that the young Italian pianist Roberto Plano relishes to the full on this welcome new survey. As Plano himself remarks in the booklet notes for the release, the late works embody all the sincerity and essential poetry of the composer’s style, all the more treasurable for their emergence against the odds as Smetana battled with deafness and the mental illness that would cut short his life.
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