Composer: Antoine Reicha
Performer: Henrik Löwenmark
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0483
Release: 2023
Size: 546 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Variations in E-Flat Major, Op. 83
01. Theme. Poco allegretto
02. Var. 1
03. Var. 2
04. Var. 3
05. Var. 4
06. Var. 5
07. Var. 6
08. Var. 7
09. Var. 8
10. Var. 9
11. Var. 10
12. Var. 11
13. Var. 12
14. Var. 13
15. Var. 14
16. Var. 15, Andante maestoso
17. Var. 16, Allegretto
18. Coda. Allegro assai
2 Fantaisies, Op. 31
19. No. 1, Andante un poco allegretto
20. No. 2, Allegro
La Chercheuse d’esprit
21. No. 1, Andante
22. No. 2, Andante un poco allegretto
23. No. 3, Lento
24. No. 4, Allegro
25. No. 5, Adagio
26. No. 6, Allegro assai
27. No. 7, Andante un poco lento
28. No. 8, Allegretto
29. No. 9, Largo di molto
30. No. 10, Allegro
31. No. 11, Lento
32. No. 12, Allegretto un poco andante
33. No. 13, Allegro
34. Fugue à 3 dans le style moderne for Piano
35. Un poco andante for Piano
Variations on Charmante Gabrielle, Op. 85
36. Theme. Andante
37. Var. 1, Con più moto
38. Var. 2, Legato
39. Var. 3
40. Var. 4
41. Var. 5
42. Var. 6
43. Var. 7
44. Var. 8
45. Var. 9
46. Var. 10 – Coda. Allegro assai
47. Marche funèbre
Variations on a Theme by Gluck, Op. 87
48. Theme. Allegretto
49. Var. 1, Con più moto
50. Var. 2, Tempo primo
51. Var. 3
52. Var. 4
53. Var. 5
54. Var. 6
55. Var. 7
56. Var. 8
57. Var. 9
58. Var. 10
59. Var. 11
60. Var. 12
61. Var. 13, Adagio
62. Var. 14, Allegretto
63. Coda. 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 recent 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 fifth volume of his survey of Reicha’s piano music Henrik Lowenmark demonstrates the breadth of Reicha’s quixotic imagination, with three variation sets and a number of smaller character pieces.