MORAVEC I. PLAYS MOZART, BEETHOVEN, CHOPIN, FRANCK, RAVEL, DEBUSSY / I.Moravec (4CDs set)

CD I.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sonate for Piano in B flat major, K. 333=315c 21:04

1. Allegro 7:02

2. Andante cantabile 8:09

3. Allegretto grazioso 5:47

4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Fantasia in C minor, K. 475 12:40

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sonata for Piano No. 16 in B flat major, K. 570 16:55

5. Allegro 5:10

6. Adagio 7:52

7. Allegretto 3:43

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sonata in C minor, K. 457 18:03

8. Allegro molto 5:45

9. Adagio 7:49

10. Allegro assai 4:29

CD II.

Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata in C minor No. 8 Pathetique, Op. 13 18:12

1. Grave. Allegro di molto e con brio 8:41

2. Adagio cantabile 5:27

3. Rondo. Allegro 3:56

Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata No. 14 quasi una Fantasia in C sharp minor Moonlight, Op.27/2 16:07

4. Adagio sostenuto 6:40

5. Allegretto /att./ 2:30

6. Presto agitato 6:57

7. Ludwig van Beethoven - 32 Variations for Piano in C minor 10:08

Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90 13:06

8. Mit Lebhaftigkeit und durchaus mit Empfindung un Ausdruck 4:40

9. Nicht zu geschwind und sehr singbar vorzutragen 8:23

Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata No. 26 in E flat major Les adieux, Op. 81a 16:30

10. Lebewohl. Adagio - Allegro 6:49

11. Abwesenheit. Andante espressivo 4:21

12. Auf Wiedersehen. Vivacissimamente 5:20

CD III.

1. Fryderyk Chopin - Ballad No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 10:06

2. Fryderyk Chopin - Ballad No. 2 in F major, Op. 38 7:37

3. Fryderyk Chopin - Ballad No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47 7:48

4. Fryderyk Chopin - Ballad No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52 11:56

5. Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op. 50/3 4:58

6. Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op. 63/3 1:39

7. Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in A minor, Op. 7/2 2:59

8. Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in C major, Op. 24/2 2:09

9. Fryderyk Chopin - Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17/4 4:42

10. Fryderyk Chopin - Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60 9:25

CD IV.

Cesar Franck - Prelude, Choral et Fugue for Piano 21:24

1. Prelude. Moderato 6:07

2. Choral. Poco piu lento 7:38

3. Fugue. Poco allegro 7:39

Maurice Ravel - Sonatine in F sharp minor for Piano 11:28

4. Modere 4:06

5. Mouvement de menuet 3:35

6. Anime 3:39

Claude Debussy - Preludes for Piano - II.nd Book - selection 4:38

7. Feux dÁrtifice. Moderement anime 4:38

Claude Debussy - Preludes for Piano - I.st book - selection 14:12

8. La cathedrale engloutie. Profondement calme 6:22

9. Les collines d'Anacapri. Tres modere 3:27

10. Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir. Modere 4:23

Claude Debussy - Preludes for Piano - II.nd Book - selection 4:55

11. La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune. Lent 4:55

Claude Debussy - Pour le piano, suite 13:03

12. Prelude 3:51

13. Sarabande 5:32

14. Toccata 3:37

Ivan Moravec piano

Set of 4CDs Ivan Moravec Plays Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and French Music The Czech pianist Ivan Moravec (b. 1930) is in full creative swing still in his seventies; his performances worldwide have continued to amount to dozens each year. It can now be safely said that throughout the latter half of the past century his international renown had no peer in the Czech piano-playing community. He embarked on his career in the 1950s; notwithstanding the atmosphere of the time which imposed many painful constraints on artists in Eastern Europe, he gave convincing proofs of his formidable talent to audiences in Italy, Austria and Britain, and in 1962 made his debut in the U.S.A. Since then he has regularly appeared in the majority of the world´s most prestigious concert venues, and has made dozens of recordings many of which have received international awards. Ivan Moravec is the sole Czech pianist to have been included in the recently compiled large 100-volume Philips CD anthology of Great Pianists of the 20th Century. To make the artist´s portrait as representative as possible, we made sure it would encompass his greatest musical loves, ranging from Mozart through Ravel. Thus we were able to recapture Moravec´s readings of classics spanning nearly one and a half century. To be sure, Moravec´s repertoire is not borderless, nor are his renditions prodigiously spectacular; instead, everything he has ever played has unfailingly impressed his listeners by his art´s immaculate sonic elaboration and unostentatious technical perfection. This cross-section of Ivan Moravec´s lifelong recording studio production is dominated by his American takes dating from the second half of the 1960s, never previously released in Europe. The representative series is available either in separate volumes, or on a reduced-price basis, as a boxed four-CD complete set.

(Supraphon 2001)