Pragadigitals Sonatas FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828) + J. N. HUMMEL : CELLO SONATAS Arpeggione D 821, Op104 & 54 - Kanka
Pragadigitals Sonatas Johannes Brahms: Viola Sonatas, Op. 120 - Robert Schumann: Märchenbilder, Op. 113
Pragadigitals Sonatas J.-S. BACH : SONATAS BWV 1020,1022,1027-1029 - THE VIOLA THROUGH THE AGES (Vol. 1) - J. Suk (viola)
Pragadigitals Sonatas BEDRICH SMETANA (DVORAK, JANÁČEK, MARTINŮ) - CZECH SONATAS FOR VIOLON AND PIANO - Václav REMEŠ
Pragadigitals Sonatas Igor STRAVINSKI (+BORODIN, PROKOFIEV) : RUSSIAN CELLO SONATAS VOL. 2 - Kanka (cello), Klepac (piano)
Pragadigitals Sonatas Jan Vaclav Hugo VORISEK (1791-1825) : CHAMBER MUSIC - Ivan Klansky (piano), KOCIAN Quartet
Pragadigitals Sonatas MIECZYSAW WEINBERG (1919-1996) : CELLO SONATAS no 1 & 2 - CELLO SOLO no 1 - STRING TRIO - Kanka
Pragadigitals Sonatas RUSSIAN WORKS FOR CELLO & PIANO - M. KANKA, M. JERIE (cello), J. Klepac, I. Klansky (p) - 4CD Box
Pragadigitals Quartets THE MOST FAMOUS CZECH STRING QUARTETS - PRAŽÁK Quartet
Pragadigitals Quartets Alexander Borodin: String Quartet No. 2, Cello Sonata, Piano Quintet - Pražák Quartet, Michal Kaňka
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828) + J. N. HUMMEL : CELLO SONATAS Arpeggione D 821, Op104 & 54 - Kanka
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Johannes Brahms: Viola Sonatas, Op. 120 - Robert Schumann: Märchenbilder, Op. 113
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The two Sonatas Op. 120 are Johannes Brahms’ last chamber music works, written in the summer of 1894, three years before his death. After having heard the clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld in concert, he dedicated to him this opus, and they performed the premiere together in November 1894, in front of an audience including Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim. Brahms himself transcribed the sonatas a few months later for the viola, an instrument whose range, fairly close to that of the clarinet, found in his ears an intimate sound adequate for these two romantic masterpieces.
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J.-S. BACH : SONATAS BWV 1020,1022,1027-1029 - THE VIOLA THROUGH THE AGES (Vol. 1) - J. Suk (viola)
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BEDRICH SMETANA (DVORAK, JANÁČEK, MARTINŮ) - CZECH SONATAS FOR VIOLON AND PIANO - Václav REMEŠ
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Igor STRAVINSKI (+BORODIN, PROKOFIEV) : RUSSIAN CELLO SONATAS VOL. 2 - Kanka (cello), Klepac (piano)
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Jan Vaclav Hugo VORISEK (1791-1825) : CHAMBER MUSIC - Ivan Klansky (piano), KOCIAN Quartet
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A child prodigy of the keyboard, heir to Tomašek in composition and Hummel on the piano, Voříšek was one of the driving forces of Viennese musical life between 1815 and 1825. A friend of Schubert’s and admired by Beethoven, who requested the honour of being one of his pallbearers, he left a very limited output, including four chamber works, the Rondo for string quartet being recorded here for the first time.
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MIECZYSAW WEINBERG (1919-1996) : CELLO SONATAS no 1 & 2 - CELLO SOLO no 1 - STRING TRIO - Kanka
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Little known in the West and victim of anti-Semitic ostracism in the former USSR, the name of WEINBERG, the third great ‘Russian’ composer of the 20th century, after Prokofiev and Shostakovich, seems to be slowly emerging from the shadow of the latter, his protector and friend. Far from being an epigone, he is rather, by his temperament as a symphonist and the importance of his chamber music, the spiritual heir. This part of his vast catalogue, not written to put food on the table, includes 17 quartets, the most experimental body of his work along with his sonatas, those for cello, written with Rostropovich in mind, being henceforth consecrated.
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RUSSIAN WORKS FOR CELLO & PIANO - M. KANKA, M. JERIE (cello), J. Klepac, I. Klansky (p) - 4CD Box
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Alexander Borodin: String Quartet No. 2, Cello Sonata, Piano Quintet - Pražák Quartet, Michal Kaňka
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An amateur cellist, the composer of Prince Igor was the only one of the Group of Five to have written some ten chamber works for his personal pleasure in keeping with the laws of Germanic rhetoric - to Balakirev's great displeasure. One of them is a pure masterpiece: his Quartet in D, featuring an irresistible Nocturne, which has been played round the world in various arrangements.
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