The disc includes Janácek’s most substantial work for piano – On an overgrown path, two sets of miniatures. Here as elsewhere, Janácek captures the imagination with these astonishingly vivid and touching vignettes recalling his childhood in Moravia. “Charles Owen is out of the best school of British pianism – bright, sensitive, unaffected and with playing informed by brainwork”. The Glasgow Herald
Charles Owen – Piano
“Studying and playing these absorbing pieces has been an engrossing and enriching experience. It may not be music which reveals all its secrets to the listener at once, but one which yealds more and more rewards on closer acquaintance”.
Charles Owen
On This Recording
- 1.X.1905 (Z ulice dne 1. ríjna 1905) (From the Street, 1 October 1905): I. Predtucha (Foreboding)
- 1.X.1905 (Z ulice dne 1. ríjna 1905) (From the Street, 1 October 1905): II. Smrt (Death)
- Po zarostlem chodnicku (On the Overgrown Path): No. 1. Nase vecery (Our Evenings)
- Po zarostlem chodnicku (On the Overgrown Path): No. 2. Listek odvanuty (A Blown Away Leaf)
- Po zarostlem chodnicku (On the Overgrown Path): No. 3. Pojd'te s nami! (Come with us!)
- Po zarostlem chodnicku (On the Overgrown Path): No. 4. Frydecka Panna Maria (The Madonna of Frydek)
- Po zarostlem chodnicku (On the Overgrown Path): No. 5. Stebetaly jak lastovicky (They Chattered like Swallows)
- Po zarostlem chodnicku (On the Overgrown Path): No. 6. Nelze domluvit! (Words fail!)
- Po zarostlem chodnicku (On the Overgrown Path): No. 7. Dobrou noc! (Good Night!)
- Po zarostlem chodnicku (On the Overgrown Path): No. 8. Tak neskonale uzko (Unutterable Anguish)
- Po zarostlem chodnicku (On the Overgrown Path): No. 9. V placi (In Tears)
- Po zarostlem chodnicku (On the Overgrown Path): No. 10. Sycek neodletel! (The Barn Owl has not Flown Away!)
- Po zarostlem chodnicku (On the Overgrown Path): No. 11. Andante
- Po zarostlem chodnicku (On the Overgrown Path): No. 12. Allegretto
- Po zarostlem chodnicku (On the Overgrown Path): No. 13. Più mosso
- Po zarostlem chodnicku (On the Overgrown Path): No. 14. Allegro
- Po zarostlem chodnicku (On the Overgrown Path): No. 15. Vivo
- V mlhách (In the Mists): I. Andante
- V mlhách (In the Mists): II. Molto adagio
- V mlhách (In the Mists): III. Andantino
- V mlhách (In the Mists): IV. Presto
- Vzpominka (A Recollection): Vzpominka (A Recollection), JW VIII/32
