Unsung Composers

The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: 4candles on Monday 13 September 2021, 16:39

Title: Dora Pejačević solo piano pieces on Piano Classics
Post by: 4candles on Monday 13 September 2021, 16:39
With apologies for the surname spelling above (I'm using my outdated phone to post this), here is a forthcoming disk from Piano Classics:
https://www.piano-classics.com/articles/p/peja%C4%8Devi%C4%87-piano-music/ (https://www.piano-classics.com/articles/p/peja%C4%8Devi%C4%87-piano-music/)

Nothing new since the Complete Piano Works recording from CPO of a few years ago, but an alternative at least should anyone prefer to simply sample the composer's piano music.

4c
Title: Re: Dora Pejačević solo piano pieces on Piano Classics
Post by: Sharkkb8 on Sunday 03 October 2021, 00:00
Piano Classics label will release an album of Dora Pejačević solo piano pieces.  Presto and Amazon UK & USA all show 15 Oct release date.  Pianist is Ekaterina Litvintseva.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9250498--pejacevic-piano-music (https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9250498--pejacevic-piano-music)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pejačević-Piano-Music-Ekaterina-Litvintseva/dp/B09CRSNZGB/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Pejacevic%3A+Piano+Music&qid=1633215254&s=music&sr=1-1 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Peja%C4%8Devi%C4%87-Piano-Music-Ekaterina-Litvintseva/dp/B09CRSNZGB/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Pejacevic%3A+Piano+Music&qid=1633215254&s=music&sr=1-1)

https://smile.amazon.com/Piano-Music-Ekaterina-Litvintseva/dp/B09CRSNZGB/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=pejacevic+piano&qid=1633215300&s=music&sr=1-6 (https://smile.amazon.com/Piano-Music-Ekaterina-Litvintseva/dp/B09CRSNZGB/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=pejacevic+piano&qid=1633215300&s=music&sr=1-6)

Presto's blurb:  "Born in Budapest in 1885 as Maria Theodora, Dora Pejačević grew up as a member of the Croatian aristocracy, the daughter of a Hungarian-Croatian Count and a Hungarian Baroness. Dora's musical gifts were recognized and encouraged at an early age by her mother, who was herself a trained pianist and singer. When the family moved from the family estate of Našice (now in Croatia) to Zagreb in 1903, she began to study music more seriously, still in a private capacity, with professors at the Croatian Music Institute. By that point she had already composed several works under the influence of Romantic composers such as Mendelssohn, Schumann and Grieg. Later she studied in Dresden and Munich and received lessons in instrumentation, composition (from Percy Sherwood) and violin (from Henri Petri in Munich). She was largely self-taught, however.

Though firmly rooted in the Romantic tradition, with hints from French Impressionism, Pejačević found her own compositional voice, a major figure in Croatian cultural life and a shining beacon for all female musician-composers. She died in Munich in 1923."