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Tomasek: Piano Sonatas (Petra Matejova)
Vaclav Jan Krittel Tomasek (1774-1850)Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op. 13Sonata in C Major, Op. 14Sonata in A Major, Op. 26/48Petra Matejova, FortepianoSupraphon SU 4223-2 (2017)[Flac &Scans]
2018-04-06 23:00:00
Tomasek - Goethe V Pisnich (Mazalova & Knoblochova)
Vaclav Jan Tomasek (1774-1850)Songs for Voice and Piano after GoetheKamila Mazalova, MezzosopranoMonica Knoblochova, Fortepiano HarpsichordRadioseris CR0727-2 (2014)[Flac & Scans]
2017-12-11 04:53:14
Beethoven, 2017
[…] was the Sonata no. 7, op. 10, no. 3, written in 1798, when Beethoven was 27 years old. The next sonata, the famous no. 8, op. 13, known as Pathétique, was written the same year (the title Pathétique was given by the publisher, not the composer himself, but Beethoven liked it and that’s what the sonata was called ever since). Up to then, Beethoven was better known as a pianist rather than a composer (Václav Tomášek, a Czech composer and music teacher, who also heard Mozart, the supreme virtuoso of his time, play, considered Beethoven the greatest performer of all time). Beethoven’s predecessors, Haydn and Mozart, each wrote many wonderful piano sonatas, but Beethoven’s no. 8 was clearly different. Even though written in a traditional classical sonata form and clearly inspired by Mozart’s great piano sonata K. 457, Beethoven’s use of the themes and dynamics, the juxtaposition of different […]
2015-07-09 17:00:09
Renata Pokupić: Songs by Tomášek CD review – the eloquent mezzo shines a light on an eclipsed composer
Pokupić/Vignoles (Hyperion)Czech composer Václav Tomášek was born more than two decades before Schubert and outlived him by a similar time, but is always destined to be eclipsed by him. If you want to know why, listen to Tomášek’s setting of Erlkönig, one of many Goethe poems chosen by both composers: he proceeds at an uneasy but poised trot where Schubert hurtles, terrified. Yet even if Schubert is the superior composer, with a keener dramatic sense, many of Tomášek’s songs are little gems in their own right, and you can hear why Goethe himself approved of settings including Heldenröslein, with its moment of uplift in the middle of each verse, and Wandrers Nachtlied, with its spare elegance. Renata Pokupić’s supple, gleaming mezzo-soprano could use a notch more colour at times, but is eloquent nonetheless, and pianist Roger Vignoles makes each song sound its best. Continue reading...
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