Ivan Moravec: Twelfth Night Recital
Ivan Moravec (piano)
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2015, Editor's Choice
To listen to Moravec is to be reminded of another era, one in which there was no political correctness surrounding Bach and the modern piano. He gives a warm, richly rhetorical reading of the...
Ivan Moravec: Twelfth Night Recital
Ivan Moravec (piano)
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2015, Editor's Choice
To listen to Moravec is to be reminded of another era, one in which there was no political correctness surrounding Bach and the modern piano. He gives a warm, richly rhetorical reading of the...
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Recorded live at the Dvořák Hall of the Rudolfinum, Prague, on 6 January, 1987
This live recording of Ivan Moravec at the Rudolfinum in Prague was to have been first released on the occasion of his 85th birthday. The previously unreleased recording was discovered after 28 years in the Supraphon archives, and it managed to pass the test of the great artist’s uncompromising self-censorship.
Moravec’s playing of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, and Debussy at this concert meets the same standards as his finest recordings – technical refinement of details, carefully elaborated architecture, and rare inner vitality. Ivan Moravec’s masterful performance is further enhanced by the special atmosphere of a live concert. The earthly journey of this great pianist of the twentieth century and of this extraordinary person came to a close in July of 2015. This recording is left behind to us as his last message and statement about beauty.
A previously unreleased recording of a recital by Ivan Moravec – commemorating a great pianist of the twentieth century.
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Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineNovember 2015Editor's Choice
November 2015
To listen to Moravec is to be reminded of another era, one in which there was no political correctness surrounding Bach and the modern piano. He gives a warm, richly rhetorical reading of the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, one that is seemingly without ego and entirely compelling. The Mozart sonata is another highlight.
