Smetana - Dances and Dreams for Piano
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Label: Alto
Cat No: ALC1128
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 8th November 2010
Contents
Artists
Radoslav Kvapil (piano)Works
Czech Dances, Book 2Dreams
Poetic Polkas (3), op.8
Salon Polkas (3), op.7
Artists
Radoslav Kvapil (piano)About
“Smetana's real originality is better revealed in the shorter pieces, including the polkas.... comparisons with Chopin and the mazurka, there is something of the same ability to take a national dance and turn it into a vehicle for ...far-reaching harmonic and rhythmic explorations. Kvapil .... is well able to encompass the tuneful directness” - Gramophone
“Kvapil is entirely inside this repertoire.....a highly sensitive exponent ...the playing is much more than adequate” - Penguin Guide
“They (Dances) should be better known, and domestic pianists would find a good many of them well within finger-reach; anyone can take pleasure in Kvapil's expert, sensitive performances, which touch delicately on the emotions lying beneath the music's surface....” - Gramophone
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