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Leoš Janáček, On an Overgrown Path (Po zarostlém chodníčku), Book I

1. Naše večery (Our Evenings)

2. Lístek odvanutý (A Blown-Away Leaf)

3. Pojďte s námi! (Come With Us!)

4. Frýdecká panna Maria (The Madonna of Frydek)

5. Štěbetaly jak laštovičky (They Chattered Like Swallows)

6. Nelze domluvit! (Words Fail!)

7. Dobrou noc! (Good Night!)

8. Tak neskonale úzko (Unutterable Anguish)

9. V pláči (In Tears)

10. Sýček neodletěl! (The Barn Owl Has Not Flown Away!)

Leoš Janáček, Intimate Sketches (Intimní skici)

In Remembrance (Na památku)

Leoš Janáček, Piano Sonata in E-flat Major, "1.X.1905"

Foreboding

Death

Leoš Janáček, On an Overgrown Path (Po zarostlém chodníčku), Book II

11. Andante

12. Allegretto - Presto

13. Più mosso

15. Allegro

Leoš Janáček, Intimate Sketches (Intimní skici)

Christ the Lord is Risen (Narodil se Kristus pán)

Malá Strana Palace (Malostranský palác): Andante

Leoš Janáček, Reminiscence (Vzpomínka), JW 8/32

Leoš Janáček, In the Mists (V mlhách)

1. Andante

2. Molto Adagio

3. Andantino

4. Presto

Leoš Janáček, Intimate Sketches (Intimní skici)

Waiting for You! (Čekám Tě!)

The Golden Ring (Zlatý kroužek)

Thomas Adès plays Janáček

Piano recital at the Fondation Louis Vuitton

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Thomas Adès — Pianist

Program notes

Renowned for his innovative and powerful compositional style, experience another side of Thomas Adès—the pianist!—in this recital that sees him at the keyboard. At the Fondation Louis Vuitton in 2018, he invites us on a journey into the piano works of Leoš Janáček. 

In these pieces composed relatively early in his career, we find glimpses of the trademark style that will later come to full bloom in well-known works like Jenůfa or The Cunning Little Vixen. Adès's thoughtful and skilled performance brings out the full spectrum of color present in these deeply Romantic works which also reveal flashes of Impressionist influences. Pieces like V plači (In tears), In the Mists, and the two books of On an Overgrown Path are replete with potential references to the generations that left their mark on a young Janáček (Schubert, Schumann, Ravel, Debussy...) all the while forging the unique style that marks the great Czech composer's oeuvre. 

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