Pianist Herbert Schuch's idea for this album, combining music by Franz Schubert and Leoš Janáček, originated in a "dreamworld between sleep and waking."
Composer Biography
Franz Schubert was a good pianist but not a virtuoso, performing publicly mainly as a song accompanist or in four-hand duets.
Composition History
Schubert's Impromptus were initially deemed "too difficult for little pieces" by a publisher and were only published posthumously in 1839.
Compositional Technique
The term "Impromptu," used by Schubert and Jan Václav Voříšek, refers to the freedom in composing a piece's structure, not spontaneous improvisation.
Composer's Artistic Vision
For both Schubert and Janáček, the outer world of nature serves as a mirror for their inner emotions in their music.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Herbert Schuch notes that both Schubert and Janáček explore their musical spaces "step by step, by groping or wandering," with an improvisatory quality.
Composer Biography
Leoš Janáček considered the pieces in "On an Overgrown Path" to be very personal compositions containing "distant memories" that he would "never forget."
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