Ivan Moravec - Live In Brussels

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Label
Supraphon
Release Date
August 28, 2009
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BEETHOVEN BRAHMS CHOPIN
    • PERFORMER
      Ivan Moravec
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 28, 2009
    • UPC
      099925400422
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SU4004-2
    • LABEL
      Supraphon
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    2. II. Andante

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    3. III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    4. IV. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    5. 6 Piano Pieces, Op. 118: No. 1. Intermezzo in A Minor

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    6. 8 Piano Pieces, Op. 76: No. 2. Capriccio in B Minor

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    7. 6 Piano Pieces, Op. 118: No. 2. Intermezzo in A Major

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    8. 2 Rhapsodies, Op. 79: No. 2 in G Minor

      Composer: Johannes Brahms

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    9. Nocturne No. 9 in B Major, Op. 32, No. 1

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    10. Nocturne No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 1

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    11. Mazurka No. 13 in A Minor, Op. 17, No. 4

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    12. Mazurka No. 32 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 50, No. 3

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Ivan Moravec

    13. Scherzo No. 1 in B Minor, Op. 20

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Ivan Moravec


Over two evenings in 1983 (February 4th and November 7th) in the concert hall of Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles, the world-famous pianist Ivan Moravec spellbound the audience with his majestic performance. This master of the piano’s precision marries cultivated tone and widely differentiated articulation, augmented by deep musical élan. Each tone has absolute logic within the order of the composition he interprets, be it Beethoven’s expansive Sonata in D major, “Pastoral”, or the seemingly smaller pieces by Brahms and Chopin. And it is precisely in the latter that Ivan Moravec excels as a master of tiny area, which he wondrously chases in stylistic terms and renders ebulliently. The live recording breathes in the airy atmosphere of the concert hall, one that can hardly be evoked in studio albums. The recording clearly shows that the world of Beethoven’s, Chopin’s and Brahms’s piano works is close to the essence of Moravec’s being.