Dvorák: Poetic Tone Pictures, Op.85 - Vinyl Edition - Sony: 19658740671 - Vinyl Record

Andsnes’s championship of this music means that many more ears will be opened to it. He plays with poetic warmth, summoning up a storytelling spirit right from the start of the opening piece,... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Oct 2022
Catalogue No: 19658740671
Label: Sony

Opus Klassik Awards

2023

Nominated - Solo Instrumental

Dvořák: Poetic Tone Pictures, Op. 85

Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

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Interview, Leif Ove Andsnes on Dvořák's Poetic Tone Pictures

9th November 2022

The pianist talks about his new recording of Dvořák's rarely-heard contribution to the genre of pictorial piano miniatures.

Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes presents this album 'Dvorák: Poetic Tone Pictures, op. 85'. A rare jewel among the piano repertoire, Dvorák's 'Poetic Tone Pictures', a cycle of piano solo works, is mostly unknown to the public. Dvorák's piano compositions were largely overshadowed by his popular symphonies and chamber music works. With 'Poetic Tone Pictures', the composer offers a rich palette of various different moods, from romantic and dream-like, to wild and furious. Its poetic temperament and technically rewarding piano stylization make it a gem that not only Dvorák fans will find great pleasure in.

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Christmas Issue 2022

Andsnes’s championship of this music means that many more ears will be opened to it. He plays with poetic warmth, summoning up a storytelling spirit right from the start of the opening piece, ‘Twilight Way’, with its gently rippling arpeggios. If at first he seems to be evoking a similar soundworld to that of Grieg, a speciality of the Norwegian pianist, it ’s a reminder that the two composers were contemporaries.

November 2022

Andsnes is the first big name to champion the Poetic Tone Pictures. We need more highprofile pianists on major labels to show the same initiative and introduce their fans to piano music beyond the safe, predictable and over-recorded.

27th November 2022

Andsnes negotiates the many fiendishly complex moments with insouciant ease, bringing sonority, clarity and a beautiful balance of tone to the light (the lovely, mellifluous Toying), the delicate (In the Old Castle’s raindrop-like notes for the right hand) and the devotional (the solemn and serene On the Holy Mountain).

17th November 2022

There’s a fairytale atmosphere to many of the pieces, but that’s not to say they are simple: Andsnes works hard to make them sound effortless, not least in the crazily fast detail of the 10th piece, Bacchanalia, brilliantly dispatched.

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