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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.

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Composer: Dora Pejačević
Artist: Ekaterina Litvintseva (piano)

When the Siberian-born ‘Arctic Circle Pianist’ Ekaterina Litvintseva heard “Blumenleben” (‘Life of Flowers’) for the first time, she immediately resolved to find out more about the life and music of Dora Pejačević (1885-1923). This resolution prompted her to investigate an extraordinary corpus of music, remarkable not least for its sheer diversity, which she has attempted to convey in this selection of Pejačević’s piano output. Among 57 extant works, 24 are scored for solo piano; there would surely have been many more in both categories had she not died of kidney failure on 5 March 1923, aged 37, having suffered complications in giving birth to her first child.

Pejačević was born in Budapest in 1885 into the Croatian aristocracy. She grew up on the family estate of Našice (in the region of Slavonia in Croatia) before taking her musical studies more seriously in Zagreb. Her early output shows how well she had mastered the Romantic idiom of character pieces by Mendelssohn, Schumann and Grieg, but her voice begins to emerge in the “Six Fantasiestücke Op.17” of 1903. From two years later, the “Blumenleben” bring the character of each chosen the innocent snowdrop, the erotic rose, the mournful chrysanthemum – with a refined melodic imagination and rare economy of thought: her Mendelssohnian sympathies lead her only to use as many notes as are needed.

Even more succinct (none longer than two minutes) are the nine “Waltz-Caprices Op.28” (1906), ranging in expression from the grace and charm of their heritage to a sideways and even grotesque view of the genre (such as the slower No.3, ‘in the tempo of a Ländler’). A more sardonic vein of expression emerges in the “Capriccio Op.47” (1919), which jumps about the keyboard with dazzling glissandi and diabolical shifts of mood which belong to their time no less than French keyboard innovators such as Debussy and Ravel.

The album’s final piece is also the most substantial: the second of Pejačević’s two piano sonatas, which became her penultimate work in any genre. The sonata’s expressive key signature is established from the outset by the marking of Allegro con fuoco, and the writing is cast on a much grander scale than anything else here, resembling a work in the German or Russian schools more than the French-tinged colours of the miniatures.

This newly recorded recital marks Ekaterina Litvintseva’s debut on Piano Classics, and should attract the attention of pianophiles everywhere.

Tracklist:
6 Fantasy Pieces:
0:00:00 I. Longing
0:02:56 II. Grief
0:04:21 III. Question
0:05:57 IV. Lament
0:08:32 V. Plea
0:09:29 VI. Delusion

The Life of Flowers:
0:10:55 I. Snowdrops
0:12:53 II. Violets
0:15:16 III. Lilies of the Valley
0:16:33 IV. Forget-me-not
0:17:58 V. Rose
0:19:40 VI. Red Carnations
0:22:37 VII. Lilies
0:25:09 VIII. Chrysanthemums

Caprice Waltzes, Op. 28:
0:28:31 I. Moderato
0:29:36 II. Grazioso
0:31:07 III. Im Ländler-Tempo
0:32:35 IV. Wiegend
0:34:06 V. Lento
0:36:57 VI. Tempo giusto
0:38:02 VII. Allegretto
0:39:40 VIII. Grazioso
0:40:44 IX. Moderato

0:42:10 2 Piano Sketches: I. To You!
0:43:57 2 Piano Sketches: II. Before Your Picture
0:46:08 Capriccio, Op. 47
0:49:09 2 Nocturnes: I. Sehr ruhig
0:51:43 2 Nocturnes: II. Leicht bewegt
0:53:55 Piano Sonata No. 2

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