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Pohádka - Tales from Prague to Budapest
CHAN 20227 (Chandos Records, CD)
FIRST RELEASE (18 February 2022)
Playing time: 76'06"
Tracks: 15
Booklet pages: 44
℗ 2022 Chandos Records Ltd
© 2022 Chandos Records Ltd
Main country of recording: United Kingdom
Reviewer: Geoff Pearce
Review of Pohádka - Tales from Prague to Budapest published on 22 January 2022
Laura van der Heijden, cello
Jâms Coleman, piano
Leoš Janáček (1854-1928):
Pohádka (Fairy-tale, JW VII/5, 1910, revised 1912, 1913 and 1923)
1 Con moto - Un poco più mosso - Tempo I - Andante -
Un poco più mosso - Tempo I - Allegro
2 Con moto – Adagio – Con moto – Adagio poco rubato – Più mosso – Ancora più mosso – Con moto, ma poco a poco meno mosso – Poco a poco adagio, estinguendo
3 Allegro – Un poco meno mosso – Tempo I
Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967):
Cello Sonata, Op 4 (1909-10)
4 Fantasia. Adagio di molto - Poco animato - Tempo - Poco sostenuto - Tempo, poco più animato - Più agitato - Poco sostenuto - Tempo I – Poco sostenuto – Tempo –
5 Allegro con spirito - Poco più mosso - Poco moderato - Più moderato - Tempo [Poco più mosso] - Poco animato - Presto - Poco moderato - Presto - Poco moderato - Presto - Poco moderato - Presto - Poco meno presto - Tempo I - Poco moderato - Più moderato - Tempo I [Poco più mosso] - Più lento - Molto adagio
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) arranged by Laura van der Heijden:
6 Als die alte Mutter, Op 55 No 4, B 104, S 73 (1880) (Songs my mother taught me, Zigeunermelodien)
Zoltán Kodály, adapted by Laura van der Heijden:
7 Mért is mondod, hogy nem szeretsz (Why are you saying that you do not love me?), Op post No 1
8 Vékony a pókháló (Slender is a silk thread), Op 1 No 9 (1907-9)
András Mihály (1917-1993):
9 Mouvement (1963)
Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915-1940), adapted by Laura van der Heijden:
10 Navždy (Forever, from Three Songs), Op 12 No 1 (1936-7)
Zoltán Kodály:
11 Sonatina (1909)
Leoš Janáček, adapted by Laura van der Heijden:
Sonata for Violin and Piano, JW VII / 7 (1914-15, revised 1916-22)
12 Con moto - Meno mosso - Tempo I - Meno mosso
13 Ballada. Con moto - Meno mosso - Tempo I - Meno mosso -
Poco mosso (Tempo I) - [ ] - Tempo I - Meno mosso
14 Allegretto - Meno mosso - Tempo I - Da capo [Allegretto]
15 Adagio - Un poco più mosso - Poco mosso -
Poco più mosso, rubato con crescente emozione -
Maestoso - Adagio - Tempo I
Recorded 24-27 July 2021 at Potton Hall, Dunwich, Suffolk, UK