Composer: Karl August Hermann
Performer: Nicolas Horvath
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0418
Release: 2018
Size: 836 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Suve õhtu eha ajal (Summer Evening at Twilight)
02. Tundline unistus
03. Des Lebens Kampf
04. Winter und Frühling
05. Valse nationale des Esthoniens
06. Ausser Athem!
07. Air estonien varié et modulé
08. Die Lösung des Rätsels
09. Estnische Volkslied
10. Air d’été
11. Pulli Hansu pulmad
12. Eesti Waltz
13. Alletamine ja sarve ning torupilli lugu
14. Pensées de vie
15. Pensée Musicale
16. Marche de Fête
17. Walzerstimmung
18. Andantino in A Major
19. Albumi leht
20. Allegretto in F Major
21. Kadund Kinnas
22. Concert-Étude in C Major
23. Traurig und freudig
3 Characteristic Pieces
24. No. 1, Per aspera ad astra
25. No. 2, In hilaritate
26. No. 3, Polca futura
2018 sees the centenary of Estonian independence. One of the main figures in the ‘national awakening’ in the half-century that preceded independence was Karl August Hermann (1851–1909). Hermann was indefatigable: he was a linguist, journalist, choir-leader, song-writer, historian, literary philologist, encyclopaedist and more. As a composer he is known only for his choral songs, but French pianist Nicolas Horvath has discovered the scores of his 26 surviving piano pieces. This first recording reveals them to be charming salon miniatures, blending echoes of Chopin and Grieg with the essence of Estonian folksong.