Czech Music articles from April 2005

Czech Music archives from April 2005

Editorial.
April 1, 2005... Dear Readers, Our aim, and I hope we are more or less succeeding, is to bring you information about the kind of themes, people and events we consider interesting, excellent and generally worthy of note. But to write about Czech music also...

Peter Graham: the work is never done.(interview)(Cover Story)
April 1, 2005... It's over-dramatised, to my taste, but otherwise quite accurate. I'm simply the messy type whose element is chaos and who manages to lose everything he picks up. That easily explains the number of unfinished things... And also I've never felt...

Vladimir Lebl: 6th February 1928 Prague-8th June 1987 Prague.(portrait)
April 1, 2005... Vladimir Lebl was one of the most important of the Czech musicologists of the generation that started careers after the Second World War. He was an expert on 20th-century music and in the sixties one of the key figures in the birth of New Music...

Jan Dismas Zelenka: (16th October 1679-22nd-23rd December 1745).(profiles)
April 1, 2005... Jan Dismas Zelenka and His Style of Composition The aesthetic qualities and value of the music of Jan Dismas Zelenka (16th October 1679 Lounovice pod Blanikem--night of the 22nd to 23rd of December 1745 Dresden) were all but unknown to...

Zdenek Fibich and his place in Czech and European music in the last decades of the 19th century: (21st of December 1859-12th of October 1900).(profiles)
April 1, 2005... As a child, the Czech composer Zdenek Fibich (21st of December 1850 Vseborice u Dolnich Kralovic-12th of October 1900 Prague) developed a love of the nature that surrounded the family home of his father, a forester, while his mother made sure...

Czech musica nova: historical background and sociology of the phenomenon (Lecture, 1983).(essay)
April 1, 2005... In the modern history of Czech music we find certain initiation periods characterised by the concentrated development of new movements. These periods were first and foremost the eighteen-nineties (or turn of the century), the twenties and the...

A little distance can be beneficial: talking with John Tyrrell, and not just about his forthcoming monograph about Leos Janacek.(Interview)
April 1, 2005... The musicologist John Tyrrell is an internationally acknowledged expert on the life and work of Leos Janacek. Currently he is attached to the music faculty of the University of Cardiff where he has been working intensively on a monograph about...

Imprints. Essays on Czech Music and Aesthetics.(history)
April 1, 2005... Jan Vicar: Imprints. Essays on Czech Music and Aesthetics [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There is not exactly an excess of literature on Czech music in English, and so it is good news that the Togga Publishing House in collaboration with...

Karel Ancerl--Gold edition (Vol. 33).
April 1, 2005... Karel Ancerl--Gold edition (Vol. 33) Mahler: Symphony no. 9 Czech Philharmonic, Karel Ancerl, Production: Jana Gonda, Vit Roubicek, Petr Vit. Text: Eng., German, French, Czech. Recorded: 4/1966, Dvorak Hall of the Rudolfinum,...

Concerto in B Minor for Cello and Orchestra.
April 1, 2005... Antonin Dvorak Concerto in B Minor for Cello and Orchestra op. 104 Concerto in G Major for Piano and Orchestra op. 33' Jiri Barta--cello, Martin Kasik--piano, Czech Philharmonic, Jiri Belohlavek, Jiri Kout*. Production: Jiri Hubac....

Songs (Pisne).
April 1, 2005... Vitezslava Kapralova Songs (Pisne) Dana Buresova--soprano, Timothy Cheek--piano, Magda Caslavska--flute, members of the Herold Quartet: Petr Zdvihal, JanValta--violins, David Havelik--cello. Production: Petr Vit. Text: Eng., Ger.,...

Fantaisies symphoniques, Fresques, Juliette.
April 1, 2005... Bohuslav Martinu Fantaisies symphoniques, Fresques, Juliette Symphony Orchestra St. Gallen, Jiri Kout. Production: Christian Leins. Text: Ger., Eng. Recorded 6/2003 a 3/2004. Released: 2004. TT: 63:17. DDD. 1 CD BMG Classics 82876...

Maiestas Dei (Grudencz, Dufay, Anonymous).
April 1, 2005... Schola Gregoriana Pragensis Maiestas Dei (Grudencz, Dufay, Anonymous) Schola Gregoriana Pragensis, David Eben. Production: not stated. Text: Eng., Ger., Fr., Cz. Recorded: 2/2002, 11/1004, Chapel of the Holy Trinity at the former...

String Quartet no. 1 in E minor "From My Life", String Quartet no 2 in D minor.
April 1, 2005... Bedrich Smetana String Quartet no. 1 in E minor "From My Life", String Quartet no 2 in D minor Zdenek Fibich String Quartet no. 1 in A major The Talich Quartet. Production: Jacques le Calve, Michaul Adda. Text: Fr., Eng., Ger....