Dvorak Piano Works

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Catalog Number: ALC1044
Label: Alto
Format: CD

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Categories: Instrumental Music
Budget Periods: Romantic

Composers: Antonín Dvořák
Performers: Radoslav Kvapil

Anton Dvorak (1841-1904)

Piano Works play on Dvorak's own Bosendorfer Piano (1879)

Humoresques, Op. 101
American Suite Op. 98
Dumka and Furiant, Op. 12
Silhouettes, Op. 8

Radoslav Kvapil, piano

Radoslav Kvapil has long been recognised world-wide as an established master of Czech Piano music and has been President of the International Dvorak Society.

	Track Listing	Time
	Humoresques, Op. 101
1	Vivace	2:36
2	Poco andante	2:35
3	Poco andante e molto cantabile	4:17
4	Poco andante	2:44
5	Vivace	2:44
6	Poco allegretto	3:11
7	Poco lento e grazioso	2:46
8	Poco andante	2:52
	American Suite Op. 98
9	Moderato	4:14
10	Molto vivace	3:19
11	Allegretto	4:18
12	Andante	3:24
13	Allegro	2:45
	Dumka and Furiant, Op. 12
14	Dumka	4:23
15	Furiant	3:53
	Silhouettes, Op. 8
16	Allegro feroce	2:04
17	Andantino	1:14
18	Allegretto	2:14
19	Vivace	1:19
20	Presto	1:29
21	Poco sostenuto	2:29
22	Allegro	0:57
23	Allegretto	1:54
24	Allegro	1:39
25	Allegro grazioso	2:21
26	Allegro moderato	2:06
27	Allegro vivace	1:39

"Humoresques: In Nos. 1 and 6, Dvorak includes sketches for his unfinished opera, Hiawatha. No. 5 is very rhythmical... The famous No. 7 is one of the most popular of his melodies, and the middle section of No. 2 is already suggesting the direction of Janacek's piano writing. American Suite is the clearest example of the influences acquired in the U.S.A. The third movement evokes a cakewalk, the fourth, a lullaby, the fifth movement, an Indian dance. A 'dumka' is a peom of Ukrainian and Slavonic origin, which has a melancholic mood, and the Furiant is an energetic Czech dance. It is not surprising that he used some of his earliest themes as reminiscences of his youth, as in Silhouettes. The name of the cycle conjures up shadow pictures of the past."