Forgotten Czech Piano Concertos: Kovarovic, Borkovec, Kapralova
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Label: Supraphon
Cat No: SU43372
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 8th March 2024
Contents
Artists
Marek Kozak (piano)Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Robert JindraWorks
Piano Concerto no.2Piano Concerto in D minor, op.7
Piano Concerto in F minor, op.6
Artists
Marek Kozak (piano)Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Robert JindraAbout
Vítězslava Kaprálová wrote the Piano Concerto in D minor, characterised by brilliant instrumentation and an engrossing solo part, at the age of 20 as her graduation work. The premiere, which she herself conducted, met with great critical acclaim. In 1937, the young composer moved to Paris to study with Bohuslav Martinů. Just a year later, Kaprálová was lauded at the International Society for Contemporary Music festival in London, which she opened conducting the BBC Orchestra performing her Military Sinfonietta. In 1940, when she was just 25, the gifted artist’s life and career were sadly terminated by a serious illness. At that very age, Karel Kovařovic created his one and only piano concerto. A pupil of Zdeněk Fibich, he would later on primarily gain recognition as a conductor and serve as director of Prague’s National Theatre Opera (1900–1920). Kovařovic’s Piano Concerto in F minor affords the soloists great scope to display their virtuosity. Pavel Bořkovec, a pupil of J.B. Foerster and Josef Suk, wrote his Piano Concerto no.2 after World War II. At the time a mature artist, as a teacher he cultivated a new generation of major Czech composers (Petr Eben, Jan Novák, Vladimír Sommer, etc.). The main protagonist of the present album, the pianist Marek Kozák, who has garnered accolades at a number of competitions (Zurich, Bolzano, Bremen, Prague, and elsewhere), has a penchant for exploring little-known and forgotten landscapes, as attested to by this revelatory recording.
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