"His performances are direct, at best cultivating a beautifully
understanded virtuosity...his reading of Gideon Klein´s fine Piano
Sonata is quite simply excellent."
BBC Music Magazine
"He plays with extraordinary passion and spontaneity."
Harmonie Magazine
Kahánek´s Proms debut on
Deutsche Grammophon BBC Proms webseries!
Kahánek´s
critically acclaimed Proms debut is now being offered by Deutsche
Grammophon as a digital download. The recording contains works by Britten (Four Sea Interludes), Martinů (Incantation) and Prokofiev (5th Symphony) performed by the BBC Symphony under Jiří Bělohlávek. Recorded 26th August 2007 at the Royal Albert Hall.
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Ivo Kahánek, winner of the Prague Spring International Competition and one of the most outstanding young Czech pianists, has chosen for his solo debut with Supraphon - and not by chance - works by Janáček, Martinů and Kabeláč. The sonatas of the first two composers form one of the pillars of 20th-century Czech sonata creation, while Miloslav Kabeláč´s unjustly overlooked preludes originated at about the same time as Bohuslav Martinů´s Sonata. The selected repertoire affords the pianist great scope for his own interpretational input, play with timbre, articulation and wide dynamic range. Ivo Kahánek makes use of this space to the full, in his own individual manner yet with a sense of the work´s integrity. As a bonus, the listener has the very first opportunity to hear early Janáček works: three Fugues until recently considered lost. Folowing his well-received debut last year at the BBC Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Jiří Bělohlávek, Ivo Kahánek introduces himself on this CD as an extraordinary talent on the tresshold of greatness.
Resounding of Ivo Kahánek´s Janáček and Martinů are a wide scale of unexpected timbres and tones.
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