Czech Music articles from April 2007

Czech Music archives from April 2007

Dear readers.(Czech Music)(Editorial)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Dear Readers, It is being said that the diverstity and plurality in the world of contemporary music is its positive feature. The spring issue of the Czech Music Quarterly appears to agree with this proposition though is true we are still...

It has to entertain me and the others.(Damian Ensemble's Tomas Hanzlik)(Interview)
April 1, 2007... Tomas Hanzlik is someone who has been known and talked about for roughly a decade now. As a scholar, a composer, a conductor, a singer and a teachers--in other words as an artist of many parts, and not just music. His talents as a visual artist...

The music-loving tourist's guide to the Czech Republic.(theme)(Country overview)(Directory)
April 1, 2007... According to a Czech proverb, it is better to see something once than to hear about it twice. In that spirit, and with the holiday season in the offing, we are providing you with this small "tourist" guide to the "musical monuments" of the...

Ostrava Days 2007: Institute and festival of new music.(event)(Interview)
April 1, 2007... An extraordinary biennial event, organised in the city of Ostrava but with an international dimension that goes far beyond the borders of the Czech Republic, will be taking place from the 13th of August to the 2nd of September 2007. The Ostrava...

Antonin Dvorak: from the point of view of contemporary musicology and the New Complete Edition of his works.(edition)
April 1, 2007... It was at the beginning of 2002 that we first provided brief information on the pages of this magazine about the planned project for a New Complete Edition of the Works of Antonin Dvorak. After more than five years we now have an opportunity to...

Ondrej Adamek: I enjoy working with a simple idea.(portrait)(Interview)
April 1, 2007... In the music of Ondrej Adamek (*1979) the influences of distant ethnic cultures are organically integrated with the exploitation of the most modern composition techniques and refinements of sound peculiar above all to contemporary French music....

The Prague Manifesto after (almost) sixty years.(history)
April 1, 2007... The first postwar years (1945-48/49) were marked by a remarkable amount of international activity in Czech music culture. Naturally this was partly an attempt to reestablish contacts broken by the war (and in the field of music these had been...

Baroque Trumpet Concertos.(Sound recording review)
April 1, 2007... Baroque Trumpet Concertos (Hertel, Haydn, Richter, Tartini) Marek Zvolanek--trumpet, New Prague Collegium. Production: not stated. Text: Eng. Recorded: 11/2002, Prague. Released: 2005. TT: 45: 45. DDD. 1 CD Cube-Bohemia CBCD...

Caesar vive! Prague 1609. Music for Emperor Rudolf II.(Sound recording review)
April 1, 2007... Caesar vive! Prague 1609. Music for Emperor Rudolf II. (Luython, Monte, de Santa Maria, Harant z Polzic a Bezdruzic, Sales, Luzzaschi, Maier, Cavazzoni, Rore, Orologio, Fatorini, Regnart) Fraternitas Litteratorum, Stanislav...

Alois Haba.(sound recording)(Sound recording review)
April 1, 2007... Alois Haba The String Quartets, Complete Set The Stamic Quartet: Vitezslav Cernoch, Josef Kekula--violin, Jan Peruska--viola, Vladimir Leixner--cello, Radovan Lukavsky--recitation. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Production: Rudolf...

Sir Charles Mackerras conducts.(sound recording)(Sound recording review)
April 1, 2007... Sir Charles Mackerras conducts (Delius, Dvorak, Elgar, Suk, Vorisek) Pamela Frank--violin, English Chamber Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera, Chorus of the Welsh National Opera, Royal Philharmonic...

Antonin Rejcha.(sound recording)(Sound recording review)
April 1, 2007... Antonin Rejcha 36 Fugues for Piano Jaroslav Tuma--fortepiano. Production: Jaroslav Tuma, Vitezslav Janda. Text: Cz., Eng. Recorded: Svata Hora u Pribrami. Released: 2006. TT: 56:33, 76:36. DDD. 2 CD Arta F10146 (distribution...

Close Voices from Afar.(sound recording)(Sound recording review)
April 1, 2007... Close Vocies from Afar Schola Gregoriana Pragensis--chant, Gyosan-ry_ Tendai Sh_my_--chant and traditional Buddhist liturgical percussion (mokugyo drum, gongs and nyo-hachi cymbals, shakudyho rattle stick and sounding stones). Production:...

Pavel Vranicky.(sound recording)(Sound recording review)
April 1, 2007... Pavel Vranicky Symphony in D major op. 52, Symphony in C minor s. op., Symphony in D major op. 36, Symphony in C major op. 11. The Dvorak Chamber Orchestra, Bohumil Gregor. Production: not stated. Text: Cz., Eng., Ger., Fr....

Pavel Haas Quartet.(sound recording)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Pavel Haas Quartet (Janacek, Haas*) Veronika Jaruskova--1st violin, Katerina Gemrotova--2nd violin, Pavel Nikl--viola, Peter Jarusek--cello, Colin Currie-percussion*. Production: Petr Vit. Text: Eng., Ger., French, Czech. ...

Jaroslav Jezek.(sound recording)(Sound recording review)
April 1, 2007... Jaroslav Jezek Three Policemen, Isabel Valse, Grande valse brillante, Etude, Petite suite, Rapsodie, Bagatelles, Dance of the Puppet, Spring Wind, Bugatti Step Tomas Visek--piano. Production: Simon Matousek. Text: Cz., Eng....