DVORAK: Poetic Tone Pictures, Op. 85 / Dumka and Furiant, Op. 12
Although Dvořák’s piano works are perhaps the least known of all his music, he wrote imaginatively and attractively for the instrument and created some of his best known works such as the two sets of Slavonic Dances and the Legends originally for piano duet. The solo piano works were mainly intended as short dance or atmospheric movements, alternating between passion and intimacy, exuberance and lyricism, for performance in the concert hall rather than the salon. This third disc of Dvořák’s Complete Published Solo Piano Music focuses on the Poetic Tone Pictures, Op. 85, a cycle of thirteen pieces comprising such diverse yet characteristically Czech elements as the folkloristic Peasant Ballad and Furiant, the melancholy, dream-like At the Old Castle, the cheerfully comic Toying, Goblins’ Dance and Serenade, as well as the deeply religious At Svata Hora, a place of pilgrimage near the city of Příbram.





























