Josef Suk: Klavierwerke (3 CDs)

Josef Suk (1874-1935)

Pavel Stepan

3 CDs

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Suite op. 21; Frühling op. 22a; Sommerimpressionen op. 22b; Über Mutter op. 28; Leben & Träume op. 30; Lullabies op. 33; 4 Episoden; Freundschaft op. 36; Fantasie-Polonaise op. 5; Humoreske in C; Stimmungen op. 10; Klavierstücke op. 12; Dorfserenade

Artists:: Pavel Stepan, Klavier
Label:: Supraphon
Year of recording ca.:: 1974/1975
UPC/EAN:: 0099925382025
Release date:: 20.9.2005

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Josef Suk (1874-1935), the leading exponent of the Czech Modern movement, was so talented that he began to study at Prague Conservatory when he was only eleven. He began to compose at an early age, and although he was a violinist by trade he wrote for the piano throughout his entire life. As much as Suk loved to write, composition was a "sideline" for him, (much as it was for Gustav Mahler, whose was primarily employed as head of the Vienna Opera), whereas his "full time job" was his career as the second violinist of the famous Czech Quartet, with which he traveled the world, playing thousands of concerts between 1892 and 1933. The piano was Suk's intimate artistic confessor and interpreter, privy to his innermost feelings and moods. It would be only a slight exaggeration to call his piano works a piano reduction of his abstract musical and creative workshop. The career of Czech pianist Pavel Stepan (1925-1998), who recorded this collection, continues a great family tradition; his father is the composer, pianist, theorist and Suk specialist Vaclav Stepan. His five LP recording of the complete piano works of Josef Suk was awarded a Supraphon Gold Album in 1978. His friend and chamber music partner Ilja Hurnik has written that "the art of Pavel Stepan is an art of suggestive hints, which thanks to his precise technique

Disk 1 von 3 (CD)

1 Fantasie-Polonaise op. 5 (für Klavier)
2 Humoreske C-Dur (für Klavier)

Stimmungen op. 10 (5 Stücke für Klavier)

3 1. Legend
4 2. Capriccio
5 3. Romance
6 4. Bagatelle
7 5. Springtime Idyll

Stücke für Klavier op. 12 Nr. 1-8

8 1. Andante
9 2. Allegro moderato
10 3. Adagio, ma non troppo
11 4. Allegro, ma non troppo
12 5. Andante con moto
13 6. Allegro vivace
14 7. Allegretto
15 8. Andante

16 Dorfserenade

Disk 2 von 3 (CD)

Suite für Klavier op. 21

1 1. Adagio - Allegro vivace
2 2. Minuetto: Moderato
3 3. Dumka: Adagio, ma non troppo
4 4. Allegro, ma non troppo

Frühling (Jaro) op. 22a (für Klavier)

5 1. Frühling: Allegro con brio
6 2. The Breeze: Andante, quasi allegretto
7 3. In Expectation: Andante con moto ed espressivo
8 4. Andante
9 5. Yearning: Allegro non troppo

Sommerimpressionen (Letni dojmy) op. 22b (für Klavier)

10 1. At Midday: Moderato
11 2. Children Playing: Allegretto
12 3. Evening Mood: Andante espressivo

Von der Mutter (O Matince) op. 28 (5 Stücke für Klavier)

13 1. When mother was still a little girl: Allegretto molto moderato
14 2. Long ago in spring: Adagio - Allegro non troppo
15 3. How mother sang at night to the sick child: Andante
16 4. About mother's heart: Andante sostenuto
17 5. Souvenirs: Andante

Disk 3 von 3 (CD)

Leben und Träume op. 30 (für Klavier)

1 1. Allegro moderato. With humour and irony, here and there with excitement
2 2. Allegro vivo. Restlessly and shyly, without strong expression
3 3. Andante sostenuto. Mysteriously and highly airily
4 4. Poco allegretto. Contemplatively, then increasingly aggressively
5 5. On my son's recovery: Adagio. Calmly, with deep feeling
6 6. Moderato quasi allegretto. With quiet, carefree good humour
7 7. Adagio non tanto. Simply, then with shattering power
8 8. Vivace. Gently, twittering like a swallow
9 9. Poco andante. Whisperingly and mysteriously
10 10. The forgotten graves in the corner of the krecovice cemetery: Adagio. Dreamily

Wiegenlieder op. 33 (6 Stücke für Klavier)

11 1. Sleeping Children: Andante sostenuto
12 2. Song: Andante
13 3. Sentimental self-parody on a popular song: Andante quasi adagio
14 4. On a friend's dream: Andante moderto
15 5. Christmas dream: Moderato con moto
16 6. Death, come softly: Andante con moto

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