Nicolas Horvath - K.A. Hermann: Complete Piano Music (2018) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Summer Evening at Twilight
02. Emotional Dream
03. The Combat of Life
04. Winter and Spring
05. National Waltz of the Estonians
06. Out of Breath!
07. Varied and Modulated Estonian Tune
08. The Solution to the Puzzle
09. Estonian Folksong
10. Song of Summer
11. Funny Hans' Wedding
12. Estonian Waltz
13. Humming, Horn and Bagpipe Song
14. Thoughts of Life
15. Musical Thought
16. Festival March
17. Waltz Mood
18. Andantino in A Major
19. Album Leaf
20. Allegretto in F Major
21. Lost Glove
22. Concert-Étude in C Major
23. Sad and Happy
24. 3 Characteristic Pieces: No. 1, Per aspera ad astra
25. 3 Characteristic Pieces: No. 2, In hilaritate
26. 3 Characteristic Pieces: No. 3, Polca futura

2018 sees the centenary of Estonian independence. One of the main figures in the 'national awakening' in the half-century that preceded independence was Karl August Hermann (1851–1909). Hermann was indefatigable: he was a linguist, journalist, choir-leader, song-writer, historian, literary philologist, encyclopaedist and more. As a composer he is known only for his choral songs, but French pianist Nicolas Horvath has discovered the scores of his 26 surviving piano pieces. This first recording reveals them to be charming salon miniatures, blending echoes of Chopin and Grieg with the essence of Estonian folksong.

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