Janacek: Solo Piano

Adès is an award-winning interpreter of Janácek; his interpretation makes for a truly spectacular recording.

Nearly all of the music for solo piano written by Leos Janácek (1854-1928) dates from before the First World War and thus belongs to the period before the composer's remarkable late creative surge. Nevertheless, all three of Janácek's major solo piano works - On an Overgrown Path (1900-1911), From the Street 1 October 1905 (1905-6) and In the Mists (1912-13) - contain music that is both profoundly individual and also integral to the now widespread view of the composer as one the most original musical voices of early twentieth- century music.