Reicha Rediscovered Volume 2

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Reicha’s moments of apparent high seriousness, but when he lets his imagination flow – as in the 12 tiny variations crammed into three and a half minutes of the third Etude – his music is sweetly... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 7th Sep 2018
Catalogue No: CHAN20033
Label: Chandos
Series: Reicha Rediscovered
Length: 62 minutes

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Reicha, A: Études dans le genre fugué, Op. 97

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Ivan Ilić (piano)
Recorded: 28-30 March 2018
Recording Venue: Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

No. 1a, Introduction. Poco andante

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No. 1b, Allegro

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No. 2a, Andante

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No. 2b, Andante poco allegretto

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No. 3a, Andante poco allegretto

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No. 3b, Allegro

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No. 4a, Air. Lento

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No. 4b, Allegretto è sempre legato

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No. 5a, Air. Lento

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No. 5b, Allegretto

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No. 6a, Poco allegretto

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No. 6b, Allegretto

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No. 7a, Allegretto

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No. 7b, Allegro

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No. 8a, Allegro moderato

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No. 8b, Allegro

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No. 9a, Air. Lento

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No. 9b, Allegro - Lento - Allegro

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No. 10a, Andante maestoso - Largo

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No. 10b, Allegro moderato

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No. 11a, Poco allegretto

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No. 11b, Lento

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No. 12a, Air. Lento

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No. 12b, Allegro

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No. 13a, Tempo di minuetto - Legato - Tempo di minuetto

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No. 13b, Allegro assai

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Excerpt, Reicha, A: Fugues (36) for Piano, Op. 36

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Ivan Ilić (piano)

No. 12, Allegretto

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The eagerly awaited volume 2 in the fascinating exploration of Antoine Reicha’s keyboard music by the trailblazing pianist Ivan Ilic is now out! Ilic here digs into a crucial aspect of Antoine Reicha’s music: counterpoint and the manner in which Bach’s music served as a point of departure for Reicha’s eclectic, fertile mind and wide variety of musical styles. If most of these etudes are made up of a Prelude paired with a Fugue, their variety offers the album great diversity, and unveils the compositional genius of Antoine Reicha: here are unexpected moods and textures, sophisticated canons, cheeky invertible counterpoint, chaconnes and minuet-like character pieces, even a piece the only unifying characteristic of which seems to be its tumbling scales in dotted rhythm. Ilic’s unique interpretations are supported by enlightening booklet notes, written by the pianist himself, shedding light on revelatory moments in the composer’s life.

Reviews

November 2018

Reicha’s moments of apparent high seriousness, but when he lets his imagination flow – as in the 12 tiny variations crammed into three and a half minutes of the third Etude – his music is sweetly persuasive. Illić plays with charm and transparent precision throughout.

November 2018

Ilić argues persuasively for the variety of fugal approaches in these pieces but there is little here of the sense of wonder at Bach’s ability, in the ‘48’, to present a compendious range of fugal types and styles, despite Reicha’s occasional idiosyncratic turn of harmony.

November 2018

I said of Volume 1 that ‘Ilić’s playing is wonderfully attuned to the style and content of the music and Chandos’ sound is superb,’ and I see no reason to modify my comments about its successor. Ilić is also alive to the place of Reicha stylistically, part-way (like Hummel) between Beethoven and early Chopin; within the pseudo-Bachian context of the prelude and fugue, it makes for a beguiling synthesis. Once again, highly recommended.

February 2019

Fascinating music ... a fabulous disc.

September 2018

Don’t be put off by the dry-sounding title of the main work on this second instalment of Ilic’s survey of the piano music of Antoine Reicha (1770-1836): 34 ‘Études dans le genre fugué’ struck me as a fairly forbidding prospect, but I was hooked from the second track onwards thanks to Reicha’s own powers of pastiche and invention (more than once I was put in mind of the Diabelli Variations, written around the same time), and the incredible variety of timbre which Ilic summons to characterise each miniature.

Pianist Magazine December 2018

They require the skills of a pianist as intelligent as Ilić in order to come into their own.

The Arts Desk November 2018

Ilic’s notes are a model of accessible erudition, and the recorded sound is delicious.

Classical Ear September 2018

This rich, rewarding recital is delivered with consummate grace, Ilić is fully alert to Reicha’s pleasing idiosyncrasies, stillness and sly humour. No hesitation in recommending this latest instalment in what is fast turning out to be the discovery of the year.

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