Piano Music Complete

Piano Music Complete
Composer Antonín Dvorák
Artist Inna Poroshina piano
Format 5 CD
Cat. number 92606
EAN code 5028421926063
Release April 2006

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About this release

This part of Dvorák’s oeuvre has been completely overshadowed by amongst others his symphonies and other orchestral works. This composer did not excel in writing for the piano. There certainly are some mediocre pieces and none of the better pieces compare to Beethoven, Chopin or Brahms. Yet the best of his piano works are inspired, well-crafted and have personality. Among them there are a few minor masterpieces whose relative neglect by publishers, concert artists, and record companies is difficult to understand. Now Brilliant Classics sets the record straight. Pianist Inna Poroshina has recorded Dvorák’s entire oeuvre for solo piano and it is well worth listening to.

The work for piano solo mainly consists of a large number of smaller pieces. The only exception is Theme with Variations in A flat Major, Opus 36. which lasts some 20 minutes. Quite a number of dances like waltzes and mazurkas are part of this varied oeuvre which has to be taken in small doses.

Track list

Disk 1

  1. : Theme
  2. : Variation 1
  3. : Variation 2
  4. : Variation 3
  5. : Variation 4
  6. : Variation 5
  7. : Variation 6
  8. : Variation 7
  9. : Variation 8
  10. : POLKA in E major B.3 (1860)
  11. : Allegro con fuoco
  12. : Andantino
  13. : Allegretto
  14. : Vivace
  15. : Presto
  16. : Poco sostenuto
  17. : Allegro
  18. : Allegretto
  19. : Allegro
  20. : Allegretto grazioso
  21. : Allegro moderato
  22. : Allegro con fuoco
  23. : MINUET Op. 28/1, Moderato (1876)
  24. : MINUET Op. 28/2, Moderato (1876)
  25. : DUMKA Op. 35 (1876)

Disk 2

  1. : No. 1 in D major
  2. : No. 2 in F major
  3. : No. 1 in A major
  4. : No. 2 in A minor
  5. : No. 3 in C sharp minor
  6. : No. 4 in D flat major
  7. : No. 5 in B flat major
  8. : No. 6 in F major
  9. : No. 7 in D minor
  10. : No. 8 in E flat major
  11. : No. 1 in F major
  12. : No. 2 in D major
  13. : No. 3 in G major
  14. : No. 4 in E major
  15. : SCOTTISH DANCES Op. 41

Disk 3

  1. : B.109/2
  2. : B.109/1
  3. : B.109/3
  4. : B.109/4
  5. : No. 1
  6. : No. 2
  7. : No. 3
  8. : No. 4
  9. : No. 5
  10. : No. 6
  11. : No. 1
  12. : No. 2
  13. : No. 3
  14. : No. 4
  15. : No. 5
  16. : No. 6
  17. : MODERATO in A major B.116
  18. : QUESTION, B.128a
  19. : IMPROMPTU in D minor B.129

Disk 4

  1. : Twilight Way
  2. : Toying
  3. : In the Old Castle
  4. : Spring Song
  5. : Peasant’s Ballad
  6. : Reverie
  7. : Furiant Op. 85
  8. : Goblins Dance
  9. : Serenade
  10. : Bacchanalia
  11. : Tittle Tattle
  12. : At a Hero’s Grave
  13. : On the Holy Mount

Disk 5

  1. : No. 1 in E flat minor, vivace
  2. : No. 2 in B major, poco andante
  3. : No. 3 in A flat major, poco andante e molto cantabile
  4. : No. 4 in D minor, poco andante
  5. : No. 5 in A minor, vivace
  6. : No. 6 in B major, poco allegretto
  7. : No. 7 in G flat major, poco lento e grazioso
  8. : No. 8 in B minor, poco andante
  9. : DUMKA, Op. 12/1 (1884)
  10. : FURIANT, Op. 12/2 (1884)
  11. : Vivace
  12. : Allegretto grazioso
  13. : ALBUM LEAF in E flat major B.158 (1888)
  14. : Moderato
  15. : Molto vivace
  16. : Allegretto
  17. : Andante
  18. : Allegro
  19. : HUMORESQUE in F sharp major B.138 (1884)
  20. : LULLABY, B.188 (1894)
  21. : CAPRICCIO, B.188 (1894)