Release Date: 01 November 2018
Label: Toccata Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060113444615
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Composer/Series: Richard Stöhr
Description
The piano music of the Czech-born composer Antoine Reicha (1770–1836) – friend of Haydn and Beethoven, teacher of Berlioz, Liszt, Franck and many others – is one of the best-kept secrets in music. Reicha was an important influence on composers of the next generation but, apart from an innovative set of fugues, his piano works have remained almost unknown since his own day. Encompassing Baroque practices as well as looking forward to the twentieth century, they are full of harmonic and other surprises that show this liveliest of musical minds at work. Reicha’s twenty Études ou Exercices, recorded here for the first time, manage to combine his maverick inventiveness with a considerable degree of charm.
Nora Luse; Janis Kepitis
Malte Muller; Werner Heinrich Schmitt
Kreutzer Quartet
Jan Lehtola
Darlington String Quartet; Gladys Chua
Danielle Breisach; Andrew Briggs; Yana Avedyan
BuschKollegium; Lisa Wittig; Ulrich Wagner
Abigail Karr
