This second volume devoted to the music of Bohemian-born Jan Hugo Voříšek charts his rapid compositional development from the early Stammbuchblatt and Impromptu in B flat to the tone-painting of the Rondos. With their incipient Romanticism, his character pieces share something of Schubert’s harmonic ideas and suggest why Voříšek should be seen as a leading Viennese composer of the first quarter of the nineteenth century.

This recording was made on a modern instrument: Steinway, Model D