Radoslav Kvapil - Dances & Dreams for Piano - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Radoslav Kvapil Vitezslav Novak / Piano Music - ALTO - InchThis is a rare bird indeed - a very recent recording from that grandee of Czech music Radoslav Kvapil. May there be many more for his powers have not waned.... Miraculously sure-footed and full of insight. Kvapil is a virtuoso of dexterity, mood and narrative.Inch Inghilterra; Classica da camera Piano

Buxtehude / Rydebackskyrkan - Rykten [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/03/1998

Stacey Mastrian writes of her new InchWas there an Italian art song tradition? What happened after Puccini? These questions started me on a journey of exploration eighteen years ago. The answer is that there is a wealth of worthwhile but relatively unknown music written by Italian composers from the past century. These twentiethcentury composers were the generation born in the 1880s (Generazione dell'ottanta) and their pupils. Despite the fact that they were extremely influential figures in Italian music, a variety of socio-political and economic issues, including the overwhelming popularity of opera, nationalistic hurdles, two world wars, conservatism, and financial problems of publishers, have contributed to the relative obscurity of much of their output. Their compositions for voice and piano have been particularly neglected. These are works that deserve to be heard. The songs for voice and piano that were written by twentieth-century Italian composers were called liriche, which means InchlyricsInch (singular lirica or lirica da camera). The name itself emphasizes the central importance of the text in these pieces. As with art songs from other countries, such as German Lieder or French melodies, liriche are a sophisticated form in which the voice and piano work together to present the poem. The piano parts are elaborate, and the music is rhythmically and harmonically complex, often incorporating an increased use of dissonances, nonfunctional harmonies, shifting and mixed meters, and polyrhythms-the aim of all of these elements being to fully express the text.Inch