[ Regis Records / 4 CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 5 October 2004
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"..Kvapil plays the set with great understanding.. ability to characterize swiftly & surely..deft & sensitive.. recording no less sensitive.."
- Gramophone
"..Kvapil responds most vividly.. excellent record.. a sure touch.. interesting and well-executed performances.."
- Gramophone
"..Smetana's real originality is better revealed in the shorter pieces.. comparisons with Chopin & the Mazurka.. same ability to
take a national dance and turn it.. vehicle for a wide descriptive range.. far-reaching harmonic & rhythmic explorations.."
- Gramophone
"..excellent anthology of Suk's music.. Kvapil has their manner ideally. He can touch off a mood of gentleness or - wit or, more rarely, something almost wry.. most affecting recital.."
- Gramophone
CD ONE, Dvorak Piano Music:
1. Theme (tempo di minuetto) plus variations 1-8
2. Poetic Tone Pictures Op.85 On the Road at Night
3. Toying
4. At The Old Castle
5. Spring Song
6. Peasant's Ballad
7. Reverie
8. Furiant
9. Goblin's Dance
10. Serenade
11. Bacchanal
12. Tittle-Tattle
13. At a Hero's Grave
14. At Svata Hora
CD TWO, Janacek Piano Music:
1. On An Overgrown Path - Book I Our Evenings
2. A Leaf Blown By The Wind
3. Come With Us
4. The Virgin of Fyrdek
5. They Chatted Like Little Swallows
6. Words Fail Me!
7. Good Night!
8. Unutterable Anguish
9. In Tears
10. The Little Owl Still Calls
11. On An Overgrown Path - Book II Andante
12. Allegretto
13. Piu Mosso
14. Vivo
15. Allegro - Adagio
16. I:x:1905 (Piano Sonata) Con moto
17. Adagio
18. In The Mists Andante
19. Molto Adagio
20. Andantino
21. Presto
CD THREE, Smetana Piano Music:
1. Macbeth & The Witches
2. Dreams Bygone Happines
3. Consolation
4. In Bohemia - Country Tale
5. In The Salon
6. Before the Castle
7. Festival of Bohemian Country Folk
8. Three Poetic Polkas Polka in F# major
9. Polka in F minor
10. Polka in E major
11. Three Poetic Polkas Polka in Eb major
12. Polka in G minor
13. Polka in Ab major
14. Memories of Bohemia in Polka Form Op.12 Polka in A minor
15. Polka in E minor
16. Polka in E minor
17. Polka in Eb minor
CD FOUR, Suk Piano Music:
1. Piano Pieces Op.7 Love Song
2. Humoresque
3. Memories
4. Little Idylls
5. Dumka
6. Capricietto
7. Spring Op22a Spring
8. The Breeze
9. In Expectation
10. ***
11. Longing
12. Summer Impressions Op.22b At Noon
13. Children At Play
14. Evening Mood
15. About Mother Op.28 When Mother Was Still A Little Girl
16. Once in Springtime
17. How Mother Sang At Night To The Sick Child
18. About Mother's Heart
19. Remembering