Kabelac & Smetana: Piano Works / Bartoš

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Label
Supraphon
Release Date
March 17, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Miloslav Kabelac, Bedrich Smetana
    • PERFORMER
      Jan Bartos
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 17, 2023
    • UPC
      099925432423
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SU4324-2
    • LABEL
      Supraphon
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Preludio ostinato

      Composer: Miloslav Kabeláč

      Performer: Jan Bartoš

    2. No. 2. Preludio meditativo

      Composer: Miloslav Kabeláč

      Performer: Jan Bartoš

    3. No. 3. Preludio sognante

      Composer: Miloslav Kabeláč

      Performer: Jan Bartoš

    4. No. 4. Preludio corale

      Composer: Miloslav Kabeláč

      Performer: Jan Bartoš

    5. No. 5. Preludio notturno

      Composer: Miloslav Kabeláč

      Performer: Jan Bartoš

    6. No. 6. Preludio volante

      Composer: Miloslav Kabeláč

      Performer: Jan Bartoš

    7. No. 7. Preludio arioso

      Composer: Miloslav Kabeláč

      Performer: Jan Bartoš

    8. No. 8. Preludio impetuoso

      Composer: Miloslav Kabeláč

      Performer: Jan Bartoš

    9. I. Le bonheur éteint (Zaniklé štestí)

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jan Bartoš

    10. II. La consolation (Útecha)

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jan Bartoš

    11. III. En Bohême: scène champêtre (V Cechách: vesnický výjev)

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jan Bartoš

    12. IV. Au salon (V salone)

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jan Bartoš

    13. V. Près du château (Pred hradem)

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jan Bartoš

    14. VI. La fête des paysans bohémiens (Slavnost ceských venkovanu)

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jan Bartoš

    15. I. Indian Motif (Battle Song): Presto

      Composer: Miloslav Kabeláč

      Performer: Jan Bartoš

    16. II. Motif from Asia Minor (Pastorale): Andante

      Composer: Miloslav Kabeláč

      Performer: Jan Bartoš

    17. III. Pacific Motif (Burial Song): Lento ma con sordo passione

      Composer: Miloslav Kabeláč

      Performer: Jan Bartoš

    18. IV. Javanese Motif (Ceremony): Festivo

      Composer: Miloslav Kabeláč

      Performer: Jan Bartoš

    19. V. East Asian Motif (Flute Improvisation): Andante

      Composer: Miloslav Kabeláč

      Performer: Jan Bartoš

    20. VI. Eskimo Motif (Lullaby): Lento

      Composer: Miloslav Kabeláč

      Performer: Jan Bartoš

    21. VII. Arabian Motif (Dance): Molto Allegro

      Composer: Miloslav Kabeláč

      Performer: Jan Bartoš

    22. VIII. Brazilian Motif (Incantation): Andante

      Composer: Miloslav Kabeláč

      Performer: Jan Bartoš

    23. IX. Motif from India (Lute Improvisation): Meditativo

      Composer: Miloslav Kabeláč

      Performer: Jan Bartoš

    24. X. Central African Motif (Black Drummers): Allegro feroce

      Composer: Miloslav Kabeláč

      Performer: Jan Bartoš


What do Bedřich Smetana and Miloslav Kabeláč have in common that they feature on Jan Bartoš’s new album? Both of them were distinguished composers, conductors and pianists. Both of them created modern and timeless music for piano, which, however, remains overshadowed by their symphonic works. Smetana was writing his cycle Rêves (1875) at the time when he was completing Šárka and From Bohemian Fields and Groves, perhaps the most remarkable of the six tone poems comprising Má vlast.

Kabeláč was composing the two piano cycles, Op. 30 and Op. 38, while also focusing on Mystery of Time, his symphonic magnum opus, which in recent years has been discovered by some of the world’s most renowned orchestras, in Berlin, Cleveland, London and elsewhere. Kabeláč’s life serves as a prime example of the fates that befell the Czech humanists, artists and intellectuals from the 1930s to the 1970s amid the turbulent historical events. While his music garnered success worldwide, he was silenced by the Communist regime in his homeland. Kabelác’s style evolved from complex to simple, thus in many respects ushering in the accession of post-modernism and minimalism. As attested to by his cycle Motifs from Exotic Lands, he was boldly inspired by non-European traditional music. Following on from critically acclaimed Leoš Janáček (Gramophone Editor’s Choice) and Vítězslav Novák albums, Jan Bartoš is now presenting Kabeláč and Smetana in live recordings made at the Dvořák Hall of Prague’s Rudolfinum. Jan Bartoš presents to the world little-known Czech piano gems.