Reicha - Complete Piano Music Vol.4 | Toccata Classics TOCC0273

Reicha - Complete Piano Music Vol.4

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Label: Toccata Classics

Cat No: TOCC0273

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 6th March 2020

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The piano music of the Czech-born composer Antoine Reicha (1770–1836) – friend of Haydn and Beethoven, teacher of Berlioz, Liszt and Franck – has only recently begun to be discovered. He was an important influence on composers of the next generation but until the last few years his piano works remained almost completely unknown. 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. In this fourth volume of his survey of Reicha’s piano music Henrik Löwenmark sandwiches a number of quixotic miniatures between two grand but idiosyncratic sonatas.

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