Supraphon
Twelfth Night Recital: Music by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy / Moravec
$42.99
Details
- Composer
- BACH BEETHOVEN CHOPIN
- Artist
- Ivan Moravec
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Supraphon
- Released
- Nov 13, 2015
- Catalog #
- SU4190-2
- UPC
- 099925419028
About
To listen to Moravec is to be reminded of another era, one in which there was no political correctness surrounding Bach and the modern piano. He gives a warm, richly rhetorical reading of the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, one that is seemingly without ego and entirely compelling. The Mozart sonata is another highlight: Moravec was of course a supreme interpreter of his music and this reading of K333 is a gem. If I have qualms about the rhythmic freedom of the first movement of the Moonlight, they are offset by a lolloping Allegretto in which Moravec finds such airiness of texture that it never sounds too slow, and a fearlessly impulsive finale. Moravec’s Chopin is always special and even in a piece as familiar as the Op 27 No 2 Nocturne it is rendered fresh by the myriad shadings and colourings combined with an ear for Chopin’s inner lines.
The Op. 15, No 2 Nocturne, so often over-sweetened, here has a meditative quality, and even in the turbulent inner section the piece’s fundamental solemnity is never overshadowed. The Fourth Ballade is another highlight, the pianist repeatedly drawing out lines previously hidden. It’s a spacious view of the piece, Moravec allowing the detail to tell without losing sense of the piece’s architecture. The encores are similiarly captivating, whether in the inner voicings drawn out of the Op 63 No 3 Mazurka or in his enraptured ‘Clair de lune’, rapturously received. A fitting tribute to a great artist.
– Gramophone
Tracklist 13 tracks
- Disc 1
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1 Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903 13:51
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903
- Duration
- 13:51
- Composer
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer
- Ivan Moravec
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2 I. Allegro 07:19
- Track
- 2
- Title
- I. Allegro
- Duration
- 07:19
- Composer
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Performer
- Ivan Moravec
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3 II. Andante cantabile 08:35
- Track
- 3
- Title
- II. Andante cantabile
- Duration
- 08:35
- Composer
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Performer
- Ivan Moravec
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4 III. Allegretto grazioso 06:19
- Track
- 4
- Title
- III. Allegretto grazioso
- Duration
- 06:19
- Composer
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Performer
- Ivan Moravec
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5 I. Adagio sostenuto 07:28
- Track
- 5
- Title
- I. Adagio sostenuto
- Duration
- 07:28
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer
- Ivan Moravec
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6 II. Allegretto 02:28
- Track
- 6
- Title
- II. Allegretto
- Duration
- 02:28
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer
- Ivan Moravec
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7 III. Presto agitato 07:44
- Track
- 7
- Title
- III. Presto agitato
- Duration
- 07:44
- Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Performer
- Ivan Moravec
- Disc 2
-
1 Mazurka No. 32 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 50, No. 3 05:26
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Mazurka No. 32 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 50, No. 3
- Duration
- 05:26
- Composer
- Frédéric Chopin
- Performer
- Ivan Moravec
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2 Nocturne No. 5 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 15, No. 2 04:02
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Nocturne No. 5 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 15, No. 2
- Duration
- 04:02
- Composer
- Frédéric Chopin
- Performer
- Ivan Moravec
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3 Nocturne No. 8 in D-Flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2 06:39
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Nocturne No. 8 in D-Flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2
- Duration
- 06:39
- Composer
- Frédéric Chopin
- Performer
- Ivan Moravec
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4 Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52 11:57
- Track
- 4
- Title
- Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52
- Duration
- 11:57
- Composer
- Frédéric Chopin
- Performer
- Ivan Moravec
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5 Mazurka No. 41 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 63, No. 3 02:05
- Track
- 5
- Title
- Mazurka No. 41 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 63, No. 3
- Duration
- 02:05
- Composer
- Frédéric Chopin
- Performer
- Ivan Moravec
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6 Suite bergamasque: III. Clair de lune 06:03
- Track
- 6
- Title
- Suite bergamasque: III. Clair de lune
- Duration
- 06:03
- Composer
- Claude Debussy
- Performer
- Ivan Moravec