Smetana: Piano Works, Vol. 7 / Jitka Cechova

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Supraphon
Release Date
February 10, 2015
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      SMETANA, BEDRICH
    • PERFORMER
      Jitka Cechova
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 10, 2015
    • UPC
      099925384722
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SU3847-2
    • LABEL
      Supraphon
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Polka in E-Flat Major

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    2. Notturno in E-Flat Major

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    3. No. 1 in D Minor

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    4. No. 2 in A Minor

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    5. No. 3 in C Major

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    6. No. 4 in F Major

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    7. Variations on a Theme of Bohemian Folk Song

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    8. Andante in F Major

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    9. Piece in C Major

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    10. Vivace in F Major

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    11. March in C Minor

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    12. Ländlicher Marsch in B-Flat Major

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    13. March in F Major

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    14. Kriegermarsch in D Major

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    15. Trauer Marsch in F Minor

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    16. Figuration in E Minor

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    17. I. Sostenuto: Allegro

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    18. II. Adagio

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    19. III. Scherzo: Vivace

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    20. IV. Finale: Molto vivace

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    21. 4-Part Fugue in D Major

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    22. Piece in C Major

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    23. 4-Part Fugue in C Major

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    24. 3-Part Fugue in C Minor

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    25. Piece in C Minor

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    26. 4-Part Fugue in A Minor

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    27. No. 1 in C Major "in Präludienform"

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    28. No. 2 in A minor "in Liedform"

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    29. No. 1 in C Major

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    30. No. 2 in B-Flat Major

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová

    31. No. 3 in A Major

      Composer: Bedřich Smetana

      Performer: Jitka Čechová


With God's help and favour, I will one day be a Liszt in technique, a Mozart in composing, so wrote Smetana in his diary in January 1843. This sentence reflects the sheer determination and confidence in his own talent that compelled the 19-year-old composer - in defiance of his parents - to leave for Prague so as to continue his studies and eventually become one of the best-known Czech music creators. The beginning of his journey was fraught with tough, uncertain material conditions, and the young Smetana had to be tenacious indeed. Jitka Cechová's new recording features early pieces written in 1845 and 1846, years of intensive study and the outset of Smetana's independent artistic career. Many of them are being released on CD for the very first time; some of them were used by the composer in his later works or revised. The pianist Jitka Cechová has completed the seventh instalment of the currently most comprehensive recording of Bedrich Smetana's piano works. Owing to her zest and faultless interpretation, we now have the opportunity to savour this remarkable and still underestimated layer of Smetana's oeuvre within the context of the greatest 19th-century composers of piano music.