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2021-08-04 14:43:18
Produced in cooperation with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the international jazz composition competition is presented by JAM MUSIC LAB University (JMLU). This year's competition paid tribute to composer Leonard Bernstein. Cech's award-winning work will be premiered on October 8th, 2021 in the Grand Hall of the Konzerthaus Vienna under the direction of chief conductor Marin […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2019-07-22 06:32:36
Prom 2: Dvořák’s lively folk-infused Violin Concerto was appropriately paired with another 19th-century Czech classic, Smetana’s symphonic suite, Má vlast
[…] landscape, history and identity - pioneered by the likes of Franz Liszt with the ideals of nationalistic music currently running high in the late 19th century. Each poem depicts some aspect of the countryside, history or legends of Bohemia.Originally, the six pieces were conceived as individual works and they received separate premières between 1875 and 1880. The première of the complete set, however, took place on 5th November 1882 in Žofín Palace, Prague, under Adolf Čech.Although extracts from Má vlast had featured at the Proms since 1902 it was not until 2011 that all six component symphonic poems were given in sequence in a single concert with the BBC Symphony Orchestra directed by its then chief conductor and Czech national, Jiří Bělohlávek.Therefore, I guess, opportunities to hear Má vlast in its entirety do not come up that often so it proved good programming and equally good programming, I felt, pairing […]
2018-10-16 19:58:00
Janáček Glagolitic Mass, Sinfonietta and more Bělohlávek Czech Philharmonic
[…] the brass sounds cheerful. The open-air freshness works well in the Allegretto : imagine the people in the streets celebrating, waving flags and being happy.An atmospheric account of Taras Bulba brings out the composer's Russian soul, but the loom is enlivened by characteristic Janácek feistiness - spiky staccato passages, and expansive open-ness which seems to connect the Prophecy of Taras Bulba to the strange visions of Mr. Brouček. More connections to Svatopluk Čech with The Fiddler's Child, a modern (at the time) retelling of a folk legend.
2015-10-10 15:21:00
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra 120th anniversary gala
The 120th anniversary concert of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra is now available from CzechTV on arte.tv. All the musicians are wearing golden African daisies to mark the occasion -gold for happiness and warmth, the daisies bright but tough. Sunflowers would beb too big and roses too delicate. The programme honours masters associated with the Prague Philharmonic - Janáček's Des Speilamnns Kind, Ballade für Orchesterind, Suk's Ein Märchen Op 16 and Dvořák Slawische Tänze Op. 72 Janáček's Des Speilamnns Kind, Ballade für Orchesterind, from 1912, revised 1914 already exhibits signs of the maturity that ;lay just ahead, Janáček based the piece on a poem by Svatopluk Cech. whose novels were soon to inspire The Excursions of Mr. Brouček to the Moon and to the 15th Century (1920) Although this piece is not written for voices, recounts the story of a village […]
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