Reicha: Rediscovered, Volume 1
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ANTOINE REICHA
Reicha: Rediscovered, Volume 1
Ivan Ilić (piano)
[ Chandos / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 18 September 2018
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The Serbian-American Paris-based pianist Ivan Ilić has signed a new multi-album recording contract with Chandos Records, following internationally acclaimed recordings of works by Godowsky and Feldman. His first project on the label is a series devoted to the solo piano works of the Czech composer Antoine Reicha, a contemporary and lifelong friend of Beethoven.
Although best known for his contributions to the repertoire for wind quintet, Reicha wrote vast quantities of solo piano music, most of which has never been recorded. The manuscripts, preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, were published only recently.
Offering premiere recordings of the Grande Sonate in C major, the Sonata in F major, and three excerpts from Practische Beispiele, this first volume confirms Reicha as an authoritative, singular voice, whose piano works complement and enrich our understanding of Haydn and Beethoven. Volume 1 is a coproduction of Chandos, RTS (Swiss Radio), and the Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de Musique Romantique Française in Venice.
"Capriccio is highly capricious, and Fantasie sur un seul accord is simply that: it's a tribute both to Reicha and to Ilić that this extraordinary exercise in harmonic self-denial is anything but boring…All these pieces deserve to be incorporated into today's recital repertoire" BBC Music Five Stars
"This first volume in a new series devoted to the piano music is an exciting development in rehabilitating this once famous and important figure. Ilić's playing is wonderfully attuned to the style and content of the music and Chandos' sound is superb. Highly recommended." International Piano
"Ilić intersperses startlingly original fantasias with two sonatas, one built entirely around a theme from Mozart's Magic Flute. It's perhaps a little too academic for one sitting, but individually the works hold a genuine fascination." the Observer
Tracks:
Practische Beispiele
Grande Sonata in C Major
Practische Beispiele
Piano Sonata in F major 'Sur la Flûte Enchantée'
Practische Beispiele
Études dans le genre fugué, Op. 97
