All The Way Back / Vytautas Smetona

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On his debut Navona Records release, ALL THE WAY BACK, pianist and composer Vytautas Smetona presents a collection of keyboard repertoire that highlights his enthralling...
On his debut Navona Records release, ALL THE WAY BACK, pianist and composer Vytautas Smetona presents a collection of keyboard repertoire that highlights his enthralling and committed interpretations of some of the great composers' masterworks as well as an example of his faculty as a cultivated and dynamic composer.

The pieces on this album offer Smetona technical feats and expressive themes, all of which the pianist handles with ease, determination, and eloquence. From Bach's lyrical and joyous Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp Major, BWV 848 to the somber and dramatic range of Liszt's Funerailles (October 1849), Smetona evokes passion and refinement in his performances. The technical mastery of works such as Brahms's Intermezzo in B-flat Minor, Op. 117, No. 2, Schumann's Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17, and Chopin's Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 is handled by Smetona with sophistication, lucidity, and powerful passage work. Smetona shows us a balance between accurately playing the notes on the score and interpreting the feeling between them.


Product Description:

  • Release Date: April 14, 2015


  • UPC: 896931001922


  • Catalog Number: NV5992


  • Label: Navona


  • Number of Discs: 1


  • Composer: Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, Unspecified, Vytautas Smetona


  • Performer: Vytautas Smetona



Works:

  1. Capriccio for piano in D major

    Composer: Vytautas Smetona

    Performer: Vytautas Smetona (Piano)


  2. Intermezzi (3) for Piano, Op. 117: no 2 in B flat minor

    Composer: Johannes Brahms

    Performer: Vytautas Smetona (Piano)


  3. Phantasie for Piano in C major, Op. 17

    Composer: Robert Schumann

    Performer: Vytautas Smetona (Piano)


  4. Harmonies poétiques et réligieuses, S 173: no 7, Funérailles

    Composer: Franz Liszt

    Performer: Vytautas Smetona (Piano)


  5. Mazurkas (5) for Piano, B 61/Op. 7: no 3 in F minor

    Composer: Frédéric Chopin

    Performer: Vytautas Smetona (Piano)


  6. Mazurkas (4) for Piano, B 105/Op. 30: no 4 in C sharp minor

    Composer: Frédéric Chopin

    Performer: Vytautas Smetona (Piano)


  7. Nocturnes (2) for Piano, Op. 27: no 2 in D flat major, B 96

    Composer: Frédéric Chopin

    Performer: Vytautas Smetona (Piano)


  8. Ballade for Piano no 1 in G minor, B 66/Op. 23

    Composer: Frédéric Chopin

    Performer: Vytautas Smetona (Piano)


  9. [CD-ROM Track]

    Composer: Unspecified


  10. Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude and Fugue no 3 in C sharp major, BWV 848

    Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

    Performer: Vytautas Smetona (Piano)