Reicha: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 5

Featuring

Henrik Löwenmark
Anton Reicha

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Compositional Technique

Reicha's Fugue instrumentale à 3 dans le style moderne, published in his Traité du haute composition, exemplifies a modern fugue that is more instrumental and less bound by traditional rules.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Antoine Reicha's piano music, as featured in this fifth volume, demonstrates his desire to go beyond the commonplace and explore less traditional musical paths.

Composer Biography

Antoine Reicha, a composer, was a close friend of Beethoven for a decade, and Berlioz, a prominent French Romantic composer, was his student at the Conservatoire de Paris.

Compositional Technique

Reicha's Op. 31 Fantasias, published around 1800, included tables of modulations demonstrating his interest in expanding harmonic vocabulary and reaching distant keys quickly.

Compositional Technique

The C minor Fantasia from Op. 31, later incorporated into Reicha's Trente-six fugues, features a theme built on two ambiguous diminished-seventh chords, contributing to its mystic and brooding character.

Performer Biography

Henrik Löwenmark, the performer on this album, has been active as a freelance musician in various contexts and began collecting Reicha's unpublished piano music in 1999.