Driscoll / Renan / Hecht - Regina / Krachmalni - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Serbian-American Paris-based pianist Ivan Ilic has signed a new multi-album recording contract with Chandos Records, following internationally acclaimed recordings of works by Godowsky and Feldman. His first project on the tag is a series devoted to the solo piano works of the Czech composer Antoine Reicha, a contemporary and lifelong friend of Beethoven. Although best known for his contributions to the repertoire for wind quintet, Reicha wrote vast quantities of solo piano music, most of which has never been recorded. The manuscripts, preserved in the Bibliotheque nationale de France, were published only recently. Offering premiere recordings of the Grande Sonate in C major, the Sonata in F major, and three excerpts from Practische Beispiele, this first volume confirms Reicha as an authoritative, singular voice, whose piano works complement and enrich our understnanding of Haydn and Beethoven. Volume 1 is a coproduction of Chandos, RTS (Swiss Radio), and the Palazzetto Bru Zane- Centre de Musique Romantique Francaise in Venice.

Hugo Reinhold, born in Vienna in 1854, studied piano in the class of Julius Epstein and composition under the direction of Anton Bruckner. While he was still just a student, he obtained the prestigious Beethoven Award for his Suite Op. 7 for piano and string orchestra. For many years, until his death in 1935, he lectured as a professor at the Vienna State Academy of Music and Fine Arts (Staatsakademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst), educating numerous pianists. His compositions, largely forgotten today, constitute over a dozen cycles of piano pieces, single pieces for string orchestra, chamber music with the participation for the violin or the cello and a few collections of solo and choral songs. Aleksandra Milcarz graduated from the Academy of Music in Wroclaw having studied piano under Professor Grzegorz Kurzynski. Since 2008 she has worked as an accompanist at the Faculty of Music Education, Choral Art and Church Music at the Karol Lipinski Academy of Music in Wroclaw. Tomasz Bosewicz graduated from Karol Szymanowski Primary and Secondary School of Music in Wroclaw studying violin under Professor Krzysztof Bruczkowski. He is the founder and concert master of Assai Quartet, and since 2006 has worked as a musician for Witold Lutoslawski Philharmonic in Wroclaw.

Aichinger / Regensburger Vokalsolisten - Regina Coelo [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/24/2016