Jan Bartos – Janacek: Piano Works (2019) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Jan Bartoš – Janáček: Piano Works (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:14 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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Before he was completely overwhelmed by love for composing, Leoš Janáček strove to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist. He was closely familiar with the instrument, which allowed him to share his innermost emotions and feelings. Janáček wrote his first opus, Thema con variazioni, at the age of 26, when he was studying at the Leipzig Conservatory. The miniature piece Reminiscence is one of his last scores. The composer conceived his three essential piano works, 1.X. 1905, On an Overgrown Path and In the Mists, between 1900 and 1912, which was a difficult phase in his life. They are the most personal, most intimate pieces he wrote. Janáček was inspired by the sound of the cimbalom, an instrument he often heard when collecting folk songs in Moravia.

Jan Bartoš said: “Performing Janáček’s music entails a major problem. You must play it accurately, since rhythm and time are of vital importance, while you are also often supposed to improvise. More than any other music it can be harmed by anything that comes across as prepared and learned in advance, as something definitive. Its performance should give the impression of being impulsive, as though created here and now. That can, of course, be said about other composers’ music, yet in Janáček’s case it is absolutely essential.”

The genes of the pianist Jan Bartoš evidently bear the traces of the ample musical tradition of his ancestors, including his grandfather, a cimbalom player. The legacy of folk music and the Silesian origin is what Janáček and Bartoš have in common. In his account of Janáček’s music, the pianist reveals a profound musicological insight, as well as a fascinating intuition – the inspiring integration of the heart and the brain, owing to which Bartoš’s previous Supraphon albums of Mozart’s and Beethoven’s works have met with such great acclaim.

Tracklist:
01. Piano Sonata No. 1 in E-Flat Minor: I. The Presentiment. Con moto
02. Piano Sonata No. 1 in E-Flat Minor: II. Death. Adagio
03. On an Overgrown Path: No. 1, Our Evenings. Moderato – Tenderly
04. On an Overgrown Path: No. 2, A Blow Away Leaf. Andante
05. On an Overgrown Path: No. 3, Come with Us! Andante
06. On an Overgrown Path: No. 4, The Frýdek Madonna. Grave
07. On an Overgrown Path: No. 5, They Chattered Like Swalows. Con moto
08. On an Overgrown Path: No. 6, Words Fail! Andante
09. On an Overgrown Path: No. 7, Good Night! Andante
10. On an Overgrown Path: No. 8, Unutterable Anguish. Andante
11. On an Overgrown Path: No. 9, In Tears. Larghetto
12. On an Overgrown Path: No. 10, The Barn Owl Has Not Flown Away! Andante
13. On an Overgrown Path: No. 11, Andante
14. On an Overgrown Path: No. 12, Allegretto – Presto
15. In the Mists: No. 1, Andante
16. In the Mists: No. 2, Molto adagio
17. In the Mists: No. 3, Andantino
18. In the Mists: No. 4, Presto. Meno mosso
19. Thema con variazioni
20. Reminiscence. Con moto

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