Smetana: Piano Works Volume 7

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Čechová gooses the variations on the Czech folksong, 'Sowing the millet' with perky accents, highlighted inner voices and some truly explosive octaves…no quirky detail of the sprawling, early... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2015 More…

Release Date: 26th Jan 2015
Catalogue No: SU38472
Label: Supraphon
Series: Jitka Cechová Smetana Piano Works
Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

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Smetana: Polka in E-Flat Major, JB 1:28

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Smetana: Notturno in E-Flat Major

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Smetana: Rondo in D Minor

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Smetana: Rondo in A Minor

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Smetana: Rondo in C Major

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Smetana: Rondeau in F Major

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Smetana: Variations on a Theme of Bohemian Folk Song

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Smetana: Andante in F Minor, JB 1:117

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Smetana: Piano Piece in C Major, JB 21:4 / 2

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Smetana: Vivace in F Major

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Smetana: March in C Minor

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Smetana: Ländlicher Marsch in B-Flat Major

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Smetana: March in F Major

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Smetana: Characteristic Pieces, Op. 1: No. 5, Kriegermarsch in D Major

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Smetana: Trauer Marsch in F Minor

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Smetana: Figuration on the Chorale Gott sei uns gnädig und barmherzig in E Minor

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Smetana: Sonata in G Minor

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I. Sostenuto - Allegro

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II. Adagio

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III. Scherzo. Vivace

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IV. Finale. Molto vivace

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Smetana: Four-Part Fugue in D Major

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Smetana: Piece No. 2 in C Major

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Smetana: Four-Part Fugue in C Major

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Smetana: Three-Part Fugue in E Minor

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Smetana: Piece in C Minor

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Smetana: Four-Part Fugue in A Minor

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Smetana: Etude in Präludienform in C Major, JB 3:18 / 1

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Smetana: Etude in Liedform in A Minor, JB 3:18 / 2

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Smetana: Sonatenform in C major

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Smetana: Sonatenform in B-Flat Major

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Smetana: Sonatenform in A major

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Recorded at the Martínek Studio, Prague, June and September, 2014.

“With God’s help and favour, I will one day be a Liszt in technique, a Mozart in composing,” so wrote Smetana in his diary in January 1843. This sentence reflects the sheer determination and confidence in his own talent that compelled the 19 year old composer – in defiance of his parents – to leave for Prague so as to continue his studies and eventually become one of the best-known Czech music creators. The beginning of his journey was fraught with tough, uncertain material conditions, and the young Smetana had to be tenacious indeed. Jitka Čechová’s new recording features early pieces written in 1845 and 1846, years of intensive study and the outset of Smetana’s independent artistic career. Many of them are being released on CD for the very first time; some of them were used by the composer in his later works or revised. The pianist Jitka Čechová has completed the seventh instalment of the currently most comprehensive recording of Bedřich Smetana’s piano works. Owing to her zest and faultless interpretation, we now have the opportunity to savour this remarkable and still underestimated layer of Smetana’s oeuvre within the context of the greatest 19th– century composers of piano music.

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May 2015

Čechová gooses the variations on the Czech folksong, 'Sowing the millet' with perky accents, highlighted inner voices and some truly explosive octaves…no quirky detail of the sprawling, early and ambitious 30-minute G minor Sonata goes unnoticed on [her] watch…a fascinating and excellently produced instalment of an important cycle.

Smetana: Piano Works Volume 7

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