Rhapsodies for Piano, Op. 1

in B minor (Allegro brioso)


  • Recorded: 15th April 1975
  • Record Place: Domovina Studio
  • First Release: 1977
  • (P) 1977 SUPRAPHON a.s.
  • Genre: Chamber Music

Artists

  • music by: Jan Hugo Václav Voříšek
  • piano: Radoslav Kvapil

Album

Radoslav Kvapil

Voříšek: Complete Piano Works

Catalogue Number: SU 3747-2
Published: 18th August 2003
Genre: Chamber Music
Format: 3 CD
At the time of his death in Vienna, the Czech composer Jan Václav Hugo Voříšek (1791 - 1825) was only 34 years old. Apart from studies of composition (with Tomášek in Prague, and with Hummel in Vienna), he had also obtained schooling in Philosophy and Law. In Vienna, where he settled in 1813, his talent was duly recognized, as in 1822 he became organist to the imperial court, a post which ranked him definitively alongside the foremost celebrities of Vienna's music life. The compositional legacy he left behind is not particularly extensive but in terms of artistic value confirms his status as a major composer. His style straddles the borderline between the Classical and the Romantic. There, his keyboard output - whose virtually complete collection (except for two or three unimportant occasional pieces) is being presented here in digital format - already quite obviously augurs the advent of the Romantic era. The honourable task of interpreting the sum of Voříšek's works for the piano was taken up here with success by Radoslav Kvapil, a leading specialist on Czech piano production, whose previous Supraphon projects have included among other titles complete sets of piano works of Leoš Janáček and Antonín Dvořák.

The greatest talent of Czech music of the pre-Smetanian era.

CD 1

Jan Hugo Václav Voříšek
Rhapsodies for Piano, Op. 1
1. in C sharp minor (Allegro) 07:06
2. in E major (Allegro) 06:38
3. in A minor (Allegro con brio) 08:00
4. in F major (Vivace) 06:23
5. in F minor (Allegro) 04:20
6. in A flat major (Allegretto ma agitato) 07:35
7. in D minor (Allegro furioso) 06:00
8. in D major (Veloce, arditó) 05:05
9. in G minor (Allegro appassionato) 06:57
10. in C major (Allegro risvegliato) 06:57
11. in B minor (Allegro brioso) 09:21

CD 2

Jan Hugo Václav Voříšek
Rhapsodies for Piano, Op. 1
1. in E flat major (Allegro tempestoso) 07:18
Jan Hugo Václav Voříšek
Le désir for Piano, Op. 3
2. Andante 12:35
Jan Hugo Václav Voříšek
Le plaisir, Op. 4
3. Allegro 08:06
Jan Hugo Václav Voříšek
Impromptus for Piano, Op. 7
4. Allegro (in C major) 05:02
5. Allegro moderato (in G major) 04:26
6. Allegretto (in D major) 04:54
7. Allegretto (in A major) 07:24
8. Allegretto (in E major) 09:32
9. Allegretto (in B major) 06:30

CD 3

Jan Hugo Václav Voříšek
Sonata for Piano in B flat minor, Op. 20
1. Allegro con brio 05:35
2. Scherzo. Allegro 05:51
3. Finale. Allegro con brio 03:39
Jan Hugo Václav Voříšek
Variations for Piano in B flat major, Op. 19
4. Andante 08:51
Jan Hugo Václav Voříšek
Phantasy for Piano, Op. 12
5. Andante. Allegro con brio 12:16
Jan Hugo Václav Voříšek
Albumleaf for Piano in A major
6. Allegretto 01:22
Jan Hugo Václav Voříšek
Eclogue for Piano in C major
7. Allegro 06:36
Jan Hugo Václav Voříšek
Rondos for Piano, Op. 18
8. in G major (Allegro) 02:18
9. in C major (Allegro) 02:07
Jan Hugo Václav Voříšek
Impromptu for Piano in F major
10. Allegretto 06:46
Jan Hugo Václav Voříšek
Impromptu for Piano in B flat major
11. Vivace 02:50