Composer: Ján Cikker
Performer: Jordana Palovičová
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0270
Release: 2014
Size: 195 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Lullaby
Piano Sonatina, Op. 12, No. 1
02. I. Allegro fresco
03. II. Andante sostenuto
04. III. Vivo
2 Compositions for Youth, Op. 27
05. No. 1, Mama’s Singing
06. No. 2, The Little Virtuoso
Variations on a Slovak folksong
07. I. Molto moderato, improvvisando
08. II. Un poco più mosso, ma sempre moderato –
09. III. Con moto, corrente –
10. IV. Moderato –
11. V. Animando. Un poco con moto –
12. VI. Con moto moderato
13. VII. Un poco appassionato
14. VIII. Con moto moderato
7 Fugues
15. Fuga I a 2 voci. Allegro vivo
16. Fuga III a 3 voci. Largo sostenuto
17. Fuga IV a 3 voci. Andante sostenuto
18. Fuga VI a 2 voci. Andante
Theme with Variations, Op. 14, No. 1
19. Thema. Rubato quasi parlando
20. Variation 1, Più mosso
21. Variation 2, —
22. Variation 3, Allegretto grazioso
23. Variation 4, Poco allegro –
24. Variation 5, Allegro strepitoso –
25. Variation 6, Largo sostenuto
26. Variation 7, Allegro gaio
27. Variation 8, Vivo
28. Variation 9, Vivo –
29. Variation 10, Molto moderato –
30. Variation 11, Presto
31. Variation 12, Rubato quasi parlando
What the Children Told Me
32. I. A Fairy Tale, Please
33. II. Catch Me!
34. III. Why Is the Snow Falling?
35. IV. What Is a Forest?
36. V. Dance with Me
37. VI. Why Are You Crying?
38. VII. Where Is the Brook Flowing?
39. VIII. What’s in the Lonely Castle?
40. IX. A Bogeyman’s There
41. X. We Saw a Roe Deer
42. XI. The Train Is Moving!
43. XII. Why Is the Sky Blue?
44. XIII. I Let a Butterfly Go
45. XIV. Must Everybody Die?
46. XV. We’ve Been to the Circus
Tatra Streams
47. No. 1, The Brook and the Breeze
48. No. 2, What the Brook Told Me
49. No. 3, The Brook and the Storm
Ján Cikker (1911–89) was one of the leading Slovak composers of the twentieth century, with no fewer than nine operas to his credit. Cikker’s piano music is little known even in his native Slovakia: this disc features several first recordings. The music sits downstream from Szymanowski and Janáček, like them blending folk influences with an echo of French impressionism. As also with Szymanowski, some of the pieces evoke the composer’s fondness for the Tatra Mountains. This recording was produced in collaboration with the Music Centre Slovakia in Bratislava. Jordana Palovičová is assistant professor at the Academy of Music and Drama in Bratislava.