Composer: Antoine Reicha
Performer: Henrik Löwenmark
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0017
Release: 2017
Size: 533 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
6 Fugues, Op. 81
01. No. 1 in C Minor
02. No. 2 in E Major
03. No. 3 in C Major
04. No. 4 in E-flat Major
05. No. 5 in E Minor
06. No. 6 in F Minor
Étude de piano ou 57 variations sur un même thème, suivies d’un rondeau, Op. 102
07. Theme: Allegretto poco andante
08. Variation 1
09. Variation 2
10. Variation 3
11. Variation 4
12. Variation 5
13. Variation 6
14. Variation 7
15. Variation 8
16. Variation 9
17. Variation 10
18. Variation 11
19. Variation 12
20. Variation 13
21. Variation 12 (reprise)
22. Variation 14
23. Variation 15
24. Variation 16
25. Variation 17
26. Variation 18
27. Variation 19
28. Variation 20
29. Variation 21: Marcia
30. Variation 22
31. Variation 23
32. Variation 24
33. Variation 25, “La Bizarre”
34. Variation 26
35. Variation 27
36. Variation 28
37. Variation 29, “Folies d’Espagne”
38. Variation 30
39. Variation 31
40. Variation 32
41. Variation 33
42. Variation 34
43. Variation 35
44. Variation 36
45. Variation 37
46. Variation 38, “Pastorale”
47. Variation 39, “La Tempête”
48. Variation 40, “Le Calme”
49. Variation 41
50. Variation 42
51. Variation 43
52. Variation 44
53. Variation 45
54. Variation 46
55. Variation 47
56. Variation 48
57. Variation 49
58. Variation 50
59. Variation 51, “Le Badinage”
60. Variation 52
61. Variation 53
62. Variation 54, “Le Désespoir”
63. Variation 55, “La Chasse”
64. Variation 56
65. Variation 54 (reprise)
66. Variation 57
67. Rondo: Allegratto
The piano works of the Czech-born composer Antoine Reicha (1770–1836) – friend of Haydn and Beethoven, teacher of Berlioz, Liszt and Franck – are one of the best-kept secrets in music. The massive variation-set on a simple French gavotte recorded here for the first time reveals a composer who tempers his learning with a vivid sense of humour. Henrik Löwenmark is the world authority on the piano music of Reicha. In 2006 he finished his master’s thesis, The Piano Music of Anton Reicha, at the University of Gothenburg. Fanfare greeted the first volume in this survey ecstatically: ‘This is, joyfully, the first volume of a project to record all of Reicha’s piano music […]. Unhesitatingly recommended’.