Composer: Antoine Reicha
Performer: Henrik Löwenmark
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0243
Release: 2018
Size: 591 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Rondeau No. 2 in F Major
Études ou exercices, Op. 30, Livre 1
02. No. 1, Les douze gammes majeures
03. No. 2, Les douze gammes mineures
04. No. 3, Gamme chromatiques
05. No. 4, Les cadences
06. No. 5, Les agrémens
07. No. 6, Les accords brisés
08. No. 7, Les tierces
09. No. 8, Les clefs
10. No. 9, Les octaves
11. No. 10, L’enharmonique
Études ou exercices, Op. 30, Livre 2
12. No. 1, Adagio molto et sostenuto
13. No. 2, Allegro poco vivace
14. No. 3, Andante un poco adagio
15. No. 4, Allegro un poco vivace
16. No. 5, Andante
17. No. 6, Allegretto
18. No. 7, Un poco largo
19. No. 8, Allegro
20. No. 9, La fûgue. Allegretto
21. No. 10, Adagio molto
36 Fugues, Op. 36
22. Fantaisie sur un thème de Girolamo Frescobaldi
The piano music of the Czech-born composer Antoine Reicha (1770–1836) – friend of Haydn and Beethoven, teacher of Berlioz, Liszt, Franck and many others – is one of the best-kept secrets in music. Reicha was an important influence on composers of the next generation but, apart from an innovative set of fugues, his piano works have remained almost unknown since his own day. Encompassing Baroque practices as well as looking forward to the twentieth century, they are full of harmonic and other surprises that show this liveliest of musical minds at work. Reicha’s twenty Études ou Exercices, recorded here for the first time, manage to combine his maverick inventiveness with a considerable degree of charm.