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Novak: Piano Works

Novak / Rauch
Release Date: 10/21/2003 
Label:  Supraphon   Catalog #: 3744   Spars Code: ADD 
Composer:  Vitezslav Novák
Performer:  Frantisek Rauch
Number of Discs: 3 
Length: 3 Hours 17 Mins. 

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Works on This Recording

1.
Sonatinas (6) for Piano, Op. 54: no 1 "Spring" by Vitezslav Novák
Performer:  Frantisek Rauch (Piano)
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1919-1920; Czech Republic 
 Date of Recording: 10/15/1969 
Venue:  Domovina Studio, Prague, Czech Republic 
Length: 8 Minutes 3 Secs. 
2.
Sonatinas (6) for Piano, Op. 54: no 2 in A minor "From Children's Lives" by Vitezslav Novák
Performer:  Frantisek Rauch (Piano)
Written: 1919-1920 
 Date of Recording: 10/16/1969 
Venue:  Domovina Studio, Prague, Czech Republic 
Length: 10 Minutes 42 Secs. 
3.
Sonatinas (6) for Piano, Op. 54: no 3 in F major "Holiday Time" by Vitezslav Novák
Performer:  Frantisek Rauch (Piano)
Written: 1919-1920 
 Date of Recording: 01/26/1970 
Venue:  Domovina Studio, Prague, Czech Republic 
Length: 9 Minutes 58 Secs. 
4.
Sonatinas (6) for Piano, Op. 54: no 4 in E minor "Fairy Tale" by Vitezslav Novák
Performer:  Frantisek Rauch (Piano)
Written: 1919-1920 
 Date of Recording: 01/28/1970 
Venue:  Domovina Studio, Prague, Czech Republic 
Length: 10 Minutes 15 Secs. 
5.
Sonatinas (6) for Piano, Op. 54: no 5 in D minor "Brigand" by Vitezslav Novák
Performer:  Frantisek Rauch (Piano)
Written: 1919-1920 
 Date of Recording: 10/21/1969 
Venue:  Domovina Studio, Prague, Czech Republic 
Length: 12 Minutes 31 Secs. 
6.
Sonatinas (6) for Piano, Op. 54: no 6 in C major "Christmas" by Vitezslav Novák
Performer:  Frantisek Rauch (Piano)
Written: 1919-1920 
 Date of Recording: 10/17/1969 
Venue:  Domovina Studio, Prague, Czech Republic 
Length: 10 Minutes 7 Secs. 
7.
Sonata for Piano, Op. 24 "Eroica" by Vitezslav Novák
Performer:  Frantisek Rauch (Piano)
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1900; Bohemia 
 Venue:  Národní dum Zizkov Studio 
Length: 22 Minutes 21 Secs. 
8.
Pan, Op. 43 by Vitezslav Novák
Performer:  Frantisek Rauch (Piano)
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1910; Bohemia 
 Venue:  Czech Radio Studio No. 1 
Length: 53 Minutes 17 Secs. 
9.
Bagatelles for Piano, Op. 5 by Vitezslav Novák
Performer:  Frantisek Rauch (Piano)
Period: 20th Century 
Written: by 1899 
 Venue:  Národní dum Zizkov Studio 
Length: 6 Minutes 27 Secs. 
10.
My May, Op. 20 by Vitezslav Novák
Performer:  Frantisek Rauch (Piano)
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1899; Bohemia 
 Venue:  Národní dum Zizkov Studio 
Length: 10 Minutes 7 Secs. 
11.
Youth, Op. 55: no 1, Children's Tune by Vitezslav Novák
Performer:  Frantisek Rauch (Piano)
Period: Modern 
 Venue:  Domovina Studio, Prague, Czech Republic 
Length: 0 Minutes 51 Secs. 
12.
Youth, Op. 55: no 2, In Good Humour by Vitezslav Novák
Performer:  Frantisek Rauch (Piano)
Period: Modern 
 Venue:  Domovina Studio, Prague, Czech Republic 
Length: 0 Minutes 38 Secs. 
13.
Youth, Op. 55: no 4, Great Woe by Vitezslav Novák
Performer:  Frantisek Rauch (Piano)
Period: Modern 
 Venue:  Domovina Studio, Prague, Czech Republic 
Length: 1 Minutes 20 Secs. 
14.
Youth, Op. 55: no 4, Longing by Vitezslav Novák
Performer:  Frantisek Rauch (Piano)
Period: Modern 
 Venue:  Domovina Studio, Prague, Czech Republic 
Length: 2 Minutes 36 Secs. 
15.
Youth, Op. 55: no 7, March by Vitezslav Novák
Performer:  Frantisek Rauch (Piano)
Period: Modern 
 Venue:  Domovina Studio, Prague, Czech Republic 
Length: 1 Minutes 40 Secs. 
16.
Youth, Op. 55: no 8, Lullaby by Vitezslav Novák
Performer:  Frantisek Rauch (Piano)
Period: Modern 
 Venue:  Domovina Studio, Prague, Czech Republic 
Length: 1 Minutes 57 Secs. 
17.
Youth, Op. 55: no 11, Moonlit Night by Vitezslav Novák
Performer:  Frantisek Rauch (Piano)
Period: Modern 
 Venue:  Domovina Studio, Prague, Czech Republic 
Length: 2 Minutes 30 Secs. 
18.
Youth, Op. 55: no 12, Little Shepherd Boy by Vitezslav Novák
Performer:  Frantisek Rauch (Piano)
Period: Modern 
 Venue:  Domovina Studio, Prague, Czech Republic 
Length: 1 Minutes 51 Secs. 
19.
Youth, Op. 55: no 14, A Game by Vitezslav Novák
Performer:  Frantisek Rauch (Piano)
Period: Modern 
 Venue:  Domovina Studio, Prague, Czech Republic 
Length: 1 Minutes 33 Secs. 
20.
Youth, Op. 55: no 19, Czech Dances (2) - no 1, Neighbor's Dance by Vitezslav Novák
Performer:  Frantisek Rauch (Piano)
Period: Modern 
 Venue:  Domovina Studio, Prague, Czech Republic 
Length: 2 Minutes 25 Secs. 
21.
Youth, Op. 55: no 20, Czech Dances (2) - no 2, Furiant by Vitezslav Novák
Performer:  Frantisek Rauch (Piano)
Period: Modern 
 Venue:  Domovina Studio, Prague, Czech Republic 
Length: 2 Minutes 3 Secs. 
22.
Youth, Op. 55: no 21, Devil's Polka by Vitezslav Novák
Performer:  Frantisek Rauch (Piano)
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1920; Czech Republic 
 Venue:  Domovina Studio, Prague, Czech Republic 
Length: 3 Minutes 8 Secs. 
23.
Songs (4) of Winter Nights, for piano, Op. 30 by Vitezslav Novák
Performer:  Frantisek Rauch (Piano)
Period: Modern 
 Date of Recording: 06/11/1957 
Venue:  Domovina Studio, Prague, Czech Republic 
Length: 16 Minutes 40 Secs. 

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review:  ( 1 Customer Review )
 a charming survey... May 11, 2016 By Byrwec Ellison (Fort Worth , TX) See All My Reviews "Another of those gems of native Czech music from the Supraphon vault, mostly recorded in the ‘70s. Pianist Rauch, who died in 1996, was a Chopin specialist and Novák pupil who taught piano at the Prague Conservatory for 40 years – and his charming survey is easily the first and last word on Novák’s piano music. The composer – best known in his own country for nostalgic orchestral tone poems “In the Tatras,” “Of Eternal Longing” and his epic “Pan” symphony – was a lifelong Romantic. The heart and substance of this album is his dramatic Sonata Eroica (1900) and the original piano version of “Pan” (1910) – in Rauch’s hands, a dreamy, almost Impressionist tour de force. The rest of this beautiful set – chiefly suites of miniatures – is less consequential but is no less easy on the ears." Report Abuse
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