Henrik Lowenmark - Antoine Reicha: Complete Piano Music, Volume Two

The piano works of the Czech-born composer Antoine Reicha (1770�1836) � friend of Haydn and Beethoven, teacher of Berlioz, Liszt and Franck � are one of the best-kept secrets in music. The massive variation-set on a simple French gavotte recorded here for the first time reveals a composer who tempers his learning with a vivid sense of humour. Henrik L�wenmark is the world authority on the piano music of Reicha. In 2006 he finished his master�s thesis, The Piano Music of Anton Reicha, at the University of Gothenburg. Fanfare greeted the first volume in this survey ecstatically: 'This is, joyfully, the first volume of a project to record all of Reicha�s piano music [�]. Unhesitatingly recommended�.