Details
Duration:
15'
Instrumentation:
3333 4331 timp 4perc hp str
Premiere:
9 May 2008, Vredenburg, Utrecht, Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Claus Peter Flor
Recording
Sonata 1.X.1905 "From the street": I - Presentiment: Con moto
from Janacek-1.X.1905: for orchestra, arr. Verbey / "Invitation to a Beheading" by Verbey / by Claus Peter Flor/Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Track 1. Genre: Classical.
Sonata 1.X.1905 "From the street": II - Death: Adagio
from Janacek-1.X.1905: for orchestra, arr. Verbey / "Invitation to a Beheading" by Verbey / by Claus Peter Flor/Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Track 2. Genre: Classical.
Reviews
30 Jan 2012
Janacek’s 1.X.1905 Piano Sonata
Curtis Faville, from The Compass Rose Blog
Janacek was a Czech, better known perhaps for his operatic works, which established his fame later in his life. The 1905 Sonata is a stirring work, by turns stridently militant and suavely lyrical. It's impossible not to hear in it an undercurrent of longing, resignation and remorse. It's been interpreted as a reaction to the death of a young…