They may be mere studies for the “Use of Young Composers”, but there is endless invention and delight to be found in Czech-born French composer Antoine Reicha’s 34 Études dans le Genre Fugué. Serbian-American pianist Ivan Ilić’s first volume devoted to Reicha’s solo piano works featured fantasies and a capriccio from 1803’s Practische Beispiele and the Grande Sonate and Sonata on a Theme of Mozart (both c.1805). This second volume comprises searching, sensitively-crafted performances of the first 13 preludes and fugues from Reicha’s Op. 97, published in 1817, as well as an early fugue from his 1807 Op. 36 set. Again, Ilic´ performs from modern editions published by Symétrie and edited by musicologist Michael Bulley.
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