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史麥塔納:馬克白與女巫.音樂小品及即興曲/李斯特:第12號超技練習曲(追雪)等鋼琴作品集
米羅斯拉夫·塞克拉 鋼琴
Recorded in Prague at the Martinu Hall, Academy of Performing Arts, 27 and 28 December 2019.
"I would like to prove that Bedrich Smetana was a composer comparable with Franz Liszt and that his
music deserves to be performed at major concert venues worldwide." Armed with this belief, the pianist
Miroslav Sekera plunged into making the present album. He is an extraordinary soloist, as well as an
experienced and sought-after chamber musician (regularly performing with the violinist Josef Spacek,
the hornist Radek Baborak, and others). Putting together Smetana and Liszt is in a sense logical – both
of them were superb pianists, with the piano having played a significant role in their lives and artistic
developments, particularly in the first decades of their careers. Liszt was a great model for Smetana, as
documented by a note in the Czech composer's diary: "With God's grace and help, one day I will be like
Liszt in technique and like Mozart in composition." The correspondence and several personal
encounters between Liszt and Smetana ultimately led to a friendship. Yet whereas Liszt's piano works
have enjoyed great attention, Smetana's piano music is yet to become widely known and
acknowledged. The very first cycle of characteristic pieces, Bagatelles et Impromptus (1844), written
by Smetana at the age of 20, featured traits that would be palpable throughout his piano oeuvre. His
five-year stay in Gothenburg and conversations with Liszt enhanced Smetana's penchant for
programme music. This inclination of his reflected in several virtuoso piano works dating from that
time, including the piano poem Macbeth and the etude On the Seashore. Sekera's performance reveals
to the full Smetana's genius and singularity, which we know from his symphonic poems, but are only
now discovering in his piano music.
Discovering Smetana's piano music through Liszt ...
FRANZ LISZT (1811–1886)
1. Transcendental Etude No. 12 "Chasse-neige", S 139.12 6:12
2. Richard Wagner . Franz Liszt
Isoldens Liebestod from the opera Tristan und Isolde, S 447 7:57
3. Giuseppe Verdi . Franz Liszt
Paraphrase de concert sur Rigoletto, S 434 7:35
4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . Franz Liszt
Lacrimosa from Requiem in D minor, S 550.2 4:08
BEDRICH SMETANA (1824-1884)
5. Freundliche Landschaft from Sketches, Op. 5 2:05
6. On the Seashore. Concert Etude in G sharp minor, Op. 17 6:08
Bagatelles et Impromptus 13:23
7. I. L´innocence . Innocence 1:43
8. II. L´abattement . Dejection 1:01
9. III. Idylle . Idyll 1:07
10. IV. Le désir . Longing 2:15
11. V. La joie . Joy 0:47
12. VI. Le conte . Fairy Tale 2:35
13. VII. L´amour . Love 2:13
14. VIII. La discorde . Quarrel 1:38
15. Macbeth and the Witches 10:02