Dvorak: Complete piano works [CD de audio] Inna Poroshina and Antonin Dvorak

Antonin Dvořák was a musician who played both the viola and the cello. He himself said that he was a mediocre pianist. This is hard to believe when listening to his virtuosic and extremely delicate piano concerto in G minor. His great symphonies (especially the Ninth, the New World Symphony composed in the United States), his string serenades, his Slavic dances and his chamber music are very present on today's concert stages. Not so his piano compositions, which are equally accessible and intimate, in which he shows all his Slavic temperament and his talent for melancholic tension. This recording shows us a repertoire that is probably new to most of us. Therefore, even more welcome is this 5-CD box set with soloist Inna Poroshina, who has dealt with Dvořák's very particular world for the piano like very few pianists. The little polka in E major from 1860 shows us charming music. As well as the Suite in A major, the late Humoresques of 1894, Tema with Variations, Silhouettes, some simple mazurkas or the Poetic Landscapes of a State of Mood. Antonin Dvořák created his ideas on the piano, which as a salon musician, grew into highly evocative miniature forms. His piano music may not be the most significant part of his work, but it certainly shows the signature of a genius of his time.