Ivo Kahanek – Kalabis: The Complete Piano Works (2019) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Ivo Kahanek – Kalabis: The Complete Piano Works (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:03:32 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Classical
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The very first complete recording of Viktor Kalabis’s piano works, as well as the previous album of his three sonatas, have come to fruition upon the initiative and owing to the relentless enthusiasm of the world-renowned harpsichordist Zuzana Růžičková, the composer’s wife and a keen promoter of his oeuvre. Of major importance was the selection of the pianist – one possessing superlative technical skills and having a profound understanding of the structure of Kalabis’s music. As Ivo Kahánek put it: “Kalabis was one of the composers who don’t restrict their ideas by the traditional laws of the piano technique, hence his music is now and then extremely difficult to perform.” Even though Kalabis drew inspiration from the music of other 20th-century masters, he soon arrived at his own, singular and unique musical idiom, which is already palpable in his early opuses. The album maps more than half a century of Kalabis’s work, from the post-war Sonata No. 1 to the masterful miniatures dating from the very end of the millennium. Following the critically acclaimed recordings of his symphonic and concert pieces (Choc de Classica, Gramophone Editor’s Choice), and of the three sonatas, the present album opens yet another window into Viktor Kalabis’s fascinating musical world.

The first complete album of Viktor Kalabis’s piano works. A world unto itself.

Tracklist:
01. Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 2: I. Allegro agitato
02. Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 2: II. Grave – Moderato – Tempo di marcia funebre
03. Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 2: III. Allegro feroce e vivacissimo
04. Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 4: I. Introduzione. Largo, un poco rubato
05. Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 4: II. Sonata. Allegro
06. Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 57: I. Preludium. Adagio
07. Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 57: II. Drama. Allegro drammatico
08. Accents, Op. 26: I. Moderato
09. Accents, Op. 26: II. Allegro
10. Accents, Op. 26: III. Andantino
11. Accents, Op. 26: IV. Andante
12. Accents, Op. 26: V. Agitato – Molto allegro
13. Accents, Op. 26: VI. Adagio
14. Accents, Op. 26: VII. Moderato
15. Accents, Op. 26: VIII. Allegro
16. Entrata, aria e toccata per pianoforte, Op. 41: I. Entrata. Allegro moderato
17. Entrata, aria e toccata per pianoforte, Op. 41: II. Aria. Molto moderato
18. Entrata, aria e toccata per pianoforte, Op. 41: III. Toccata. Allegro impetuoso
19. Three Polkas for Piano, Op. 52: I. Allegro
20. Three Polkas for Piano, Op. 52: II. Allegro ma non troppo
21. Three Polkas for Piano, Op. 52: III. Vivo
22. Four Enigmas for Graham, Op. 71: I. Allegro
23. Four Enigmas for Graham, Op. 71: II. Allegretto
24. Four Enigmas for Graham, Op. 71: III. Grave
25. Four Enigmas for Graham, Op. 71: IV. Molto vivo
26. Two Toccatas for Piano, Op. 88: No. 1, Allegro moderato
27. Two Toccatas for Piano, Op. 88: No. 2, Allegro vivo
28. Allegro impetuoso per pianoforte, Op. 89

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