Dvořák: The Complete Piano Works

It’s a great set that all lovers of quality Romantic piano music should investigate without delay. — Gramophone Magazine, December 2021

Release Date: 24th Sep 2021
Catalogue No: SU42992
Label: Supraphon

International Classical Music Awards

2022

Nominated - Solo Instrument

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Dvořák: Silhouettes, Op. 8

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Dvořák: Minuets (2), Op.28

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Dvořák: Dumka in D minor, Op. 35

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Dvořák: Forget-me-not Polka, Op. sine B1

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Dvořák: Polka per pedes

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Dvořák: Polka in E major, B3

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Dvořák: Theme and Variations in A flat major, Op. 36

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Dvořák: Scottish Dances, Op. 41

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Dvořák: Furiants (2), Op. 42

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Dvořák: Waltzes, Op. 54

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Dvořák: Eclogues (4), Op. 56

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Dvořák: Moderato in A, B116

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Dvořák: Four Album Leaves, B109

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Dvořák: Piano Pieces, Op. 52

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Dvořák: Mazurkas (6), Op. 56

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Dvořák: Impromptu in D minor, B129

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Dvořák: Dumka and Furiant Op. 12

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Dvořák: Humoresque in F sharp major, B138

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Dvořák: Two Piano Pieces, Op. posth, B. 188

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Dvořák: Question, B128a

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Dvořák: Album Leaf in E flat, B158

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Dvořák: Two Little Pearls, B156

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Dvořák: Suite, Op. 98

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Dvořák: Humoresques, Op. 101

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

Dvořák: Poetic Tone Pictures, Op. 85

Ivo Kahánek (piano)

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Antonín Dvořák needs no introduction – neither in his homeland nor anywhere else in the world. But how widely known are his piano works? The Piano Concerto in G minor has recently enjoyed a degree of revived interest, yet Dvořák’s pieces for solo piano are in the main an unexplored landscape even for many pianists and musicologists. More’s the pity! They do not possess Chopin’s sway and finely nuanced emotionality, or Liszt’s ostentatious virtuosity. Just as he did in his entire oeuvre, in his piano works Dvořák eschewed flashiness, focusing instead on tender intimate lyricism, teeming with ideas, and shaping even his miniatures with the sensibility of a genius. Such music is certainly worthy of a new complete recording. The challenge was undertaken by Ivo Kahánek, an artist whose recording of Dvořák’s difficult Piano Concerto made with the Bamberger Symphoniker conducted by Jakub Hrůša has deservedly gained critical acclaim and even won the coveted BBC Music Magazine Concerto Award. The present 4-CD set encompasses cycles (Silhouettes, Poetic Moods and the Suite in A major, composed in the US, which Dvořák himself valued greatly), occasional pieces, as well as several littleknown works, recorded for the very first time. One such is the polka Forget-me-not, Dvořák’s first surviving miniature, written when he was 14 years of age. The recording of piano works provides yet another precious insight into the abundant world of the composer’s soul.

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December 2021

It’s a great set that all lovers of quality Romantic piano music should investigate without delay.

Dvořák: The Complete Piano Works

4 CDs

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