Ivo Kahánek / piano

Program:
Bedrich Smetana
Concert Etude Op. 17 "On the Seashore"
Concert Etude in C major
Leoš Janacek
Sonata 1. X. 1905 "From the street"
Viktor Kalabis
Three polkas for piano, Op. 52
Gideon Klein
Sonata
Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Ivo Kahánk's piano recital presents a varied cross-section of mainly Czech piano music of the 19th and 20th centuries with an emphasis on the virtuosity of some of the program's compositions on the one hand and on the depth of the content on the other. The hidden leitmotif is the relationship between teacher and student. Smetana's mature piano work drew very strong impulses from the work of his older friend and great role model, Franz Liszt. Gideon Klein, in turn, was significantly influenced by the work of Leoš Janáček, he even used the melody from his Notebook of the Disappeared as a motif in his Wind Divertimento from 1940. The beginnings of Viktor Kalabis's interest in music are closely linked to his early fascination with Smetana's Bartered Bride, in which his amateur production featured mom. Kalabis' Polky is thus a clear autobiographical and stylistic reference to Smetana's work.
Tickets