Dvok: Kompletn klavrn dlo – 4 CD

This four-CD set presents Antonn Dvoks complete works for solo piano, performed by Ivo Kahnek in a new recording. The repertoire includes the Polkas in E major, Pomnnka and Per pedes, Silhouety, Two Menuets, Dumka, Theme with Variations, Scottish Dances, Furiants, Piano Pieces, Waltzes, Eclogues, Album Leaves, Mazurkas, Moderato in A major, Otzka, Impromptu in D minor, Dumka and Furiant, Humoresque in F-sharp major, Two Pearls, Poetic Moods, Suite in A major, Two Piano Pieces and the Humoresques. Dvoks piano music remains an underexplored area even for many pianists and musicologists. It lacks Chopins expansive, finely nuanced emotionality and Liszts overt virtuosity, instead revealing a world of subtle personal lyricism, rich invention and finely shaped smaller pieces. The recording includes larger cycles such as Silhouety, Poetic Moods and the Suite in A major, which Dvok valued greatly, as well as occasional works and several rarities recorded here for the first time, including Pomnnka, the earliest surviving piece by the fourteen-year-old composer. Kahnek offers a rare view of Dvoks rich inner world from the piano.