Radoslav Kvapil

As well to be a published authority about Czech piano music from almost all eras, Radoslav Kvapil can be a private and skilled pianist, preferred and constantly at his very best in the music of his homeland. Kvapil can be a indigenous of Brno and started piano lessons as a kid with Ludvík Kundera from the Brno Academy. Kundera was students of Janácek, aswell as Janácek’s successor in the Academy, therefore Kvapil learned very much about this composer’s existence and function from first-hand resources. His intimate knowledge of and thorough study into Dvorák’s music — occasionally collaborating with Jarmil Burghauser — led him to help make the first recording the entire piano functions of Dvorák for Supraphon in the past due ’60s also to discovered the International Dvorák Culture in 1994. Nevertheless, Kvapil will not limit himself towards the music of simply those two composers. In the middle-’90s he documented eight discs of Czech single piano music from Vorísek to Suk, but in addition has produced recordings of Chopin, Schubert, Czech chamber music, and piano concertos. In the 2005, Regis started reissuing a few of Kvapil’s produces, like the anthology of Czech music and among Dvorák’s music performed on Dvorák’s Bösendorder piano. Many modern Czech composers, such as for example Ctirad Kohoutek and Miloslav Istvan, also have written and devoted items to Kvapil. Kvapil produced his concert debut in 1950 and earned the 1958 Janácek Competition, and since that time has appeared all over the world, through the Rudolfinum in Prague towards the Seoul Arts Middle, from huge concert halls to conservatory recital halls. His shows are mentioned for the innate experience he offers for the rhythms and colours from the Czech music, which he brings about with perfect simplicity when he performs and making the music connect quickly and very easily with audiences. By the new hundred years, into his 6th decade of executing, Kvapil still moves widely to execute in concerts, at celebrations, and to show master classes.