Composer: Anton Reicha
Performer: Henrik Löwenmark
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0273
Release: 2020
Size: 568 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Piano Sonata in D Major
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Marche funèbre. Un poco adagio e maestoso
03. III. La folie. Allegro assai
04. Andante in G Major
05. Fantaisie in E, Op. 61
06. L’espiègle
07. Allegro in E Flat Major
08. Fantasie in C Major
09. Fantasie in B Flat Major
Piano Sonata in E flat Major ‘Grande’
10. I. Largo
11. II. Allegro moderato e maestoso
12. III. Finale. Allegro assai
The piano music of the Czech-born composer Antoine Reicha (1770–1836) – friend of Haydn and Beethoven, teacher of Berlioz, Liszt and Franck – has only recently begun to be discovered. He was an important influence on composers of the next generation but until the last few years his piano works remained almost completely unknown. 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. In this fourth volume of his survey of Reicha’s piano music Henrik Löwenmark sandwiches a number of quixotic miniatures between two grand but idiosyncratic sonatas.