Smetana: Piano Works, Vol. 1

Bedrich Smetana (Composer), Claudius Tanski (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Claudius Tanski
• Composer: Bedrich Smetana
• Audio CD (September 24, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: MD&G Records
• ASIN: B0000021G0
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #725,044 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Scherzo-polka for piano in F sharp major, JB 1:67/1 (Op. 5/1)

2. Salon Polkas (3) for piano, JB 1:60 (Op. 7): No. 1 in F sharp major

3. Salon Polkas (3) for piano, JB 1:60 (Op. 7): No. 2 in F minor

4. Salon Polkas (3) for piano, JB 1:60 (Op. 7): No. 3 in E major

5. Am Seegestade - Eine Erinnerung (On the Seahore - A Memory), concert etude for piano in G sharp minor, JB 1:80 (Op. 17)

6. Czech Dances (10) for piano, Book 2, JB 1:114: Polka in A minor

7. Czech Dances (10) for piano, Book 2, JB 1:114: Cibulicka

8. Czech Dances (10) for piano, Book 2, JB 1:114: Sousedská

9. Czech Dances (10) for piano, Book 2, JB 1:114: Obkrocák

10. Rêves (Dreams), characteristic pieces (6) for piano, JB 1:103: Le Bonheur étient (Verlorenes Glück)

11. Rêves (Dreams), characteristic pieces (6) for piano, JB 1:103: La Consolation (Trost)

12. Rêves (Dreams), characteristic pieces (6) for piano, JB 1:103: En Bohème (In Böhmen)

13. Rêves (Dreams), characteristic pieces (6) for piano, JB 1:103: Au Salon (Im Salon)

14. Rêves (Dreams), characteristic pieces (6) for piano, JB 1:103: Près du Château (Vor dem Schloß)

15. Rêves (Dreams), characteristic pieces (6) for piano, JB 1:103: Fête des paysans tchéques (Fest der böhmischen Landsleute)

16. Andante for piano in E flat major, JB 1:62

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars Not earthshaking but worth listening to, May 14, 2008

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This review is from: Smetana: Piano Works, Vol. 1 (Audio CD)

This is a CD bought when studying in a class about music appreciation/czech nationalism.
With that in mind, it is a good example of the piano music created at that time and in that part of the world.
May I add, that unlike Harold C. Schoenberg's opinion, ('The Lives of the Great Composers') I don't believe this piano music is a 'watery distillation' of Franz Liszt (p. 379), although it is of course influenced by him. Who else was going to influence it?