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Ivo Kahanek: Piano Works.

Publication: Czech Music
Publication Date: 01-APR-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Ivo Kahanek: Piano Works.(Sound recording review)

Article Excerpt
Ivo Kahanek Piano Works (Janacek, Martinu, Kabelac) Ivo Kahanek--piano. Production: Matous Vlcinsky. Text: Cz., Eng., Gcr., Fr. Recorded: May-Jan 2008, Studio Bohemia Music. Released: 2008. TT: 68:37. DDD. 1 CD Supraphon Music SU 3945-2.

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For his latest CD Ivo Kahanek has recorded major piano works by the three most important Czech composers of the 20th century. For more than merely chronologically reasons he starts the CD with Janacek's two-movement, programmatically conceived Sonata in E flat minor (1905), Its two movements (entitled Premonition and Death), were directly inspired by a tragic event in Brno, which the composer then cast in a highly individually stylised form. Janacek was not himself a piano virtuoso and most of his piano works are...



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