Czech Music articles from April 2008

Czech Music archives from April 2008

Emotion that isn't lucid doesn't have the right effect.(Kahanek, Ivo)(Interview)
April 1, 2008... It is just under a year since the young Czech pianist Ivo Kahanek made his very successful debut in the Royal Albert Hall, performing Bohuslav Martinu's Piano Concerto no. 4 "Incantation" with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The recording is now...

On Czech musical education.(education)(Essay)
April 1, 2008... In any country the quality of the music education system has a direct and long-term influence on the level of national musical life. And even today in a globalised world the notion of "national schools" of play on one instrument or another...

Historically informed performance in the Czech Republic.(theme)(Essay)
April 1, 2008... This article offers a brief account of the development and progress of what is known as "authentic performance of early music" over roughly the last two decades in the Czech Republic. The term means performance of Medieval, Baroque and Early...

Vivaldi returns to the Prague stage.(event)
April 1, 2008... After almost three centuries Prague welcomed back an honoured guest--the Baroque cavalier known as Argippo. An opera written specifically for the Prague public by the famous Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi in 1730 was performed at the...

With Katerina Chrobokova on purity of style and going beyond genre.(portrait)(Interview)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The organist and harpsichord player Katerina Chrobokova has performed at many prestigious music festivals abroad, and works with important ensembles and conductors. She has taken part in many international master...

Life and work or work and life or just work?!?(Critical essay)
April 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The title I have chosen expresses the first line of thought that occur$ to the reader of Tyrrell's massive monograph, in my view, we would be hard put to it to find in current world musicology a more detailed,...

Antonin Dvorak Concertos.(Sound recording review)
April 1, 2008... Antonin Dvorak Concertos Cello Concerto in B minor op. 104, Piano Concerto in G minor op. 33, Violin Concerto in A minor op. 53, Romance in F minor for Violin and Orchestra op. 11, Rondo for Cello and Orchestra op. 94, Mazurka for Violin and...

Jiri Antonin Benda.(Sound recording review)
April 1, 2008... Jiri Antonin Benda Concerto in G major, Concerto in D major, Concerto in F major, Concerto in C major Edita Keglerova--harpsichord, Jan Hadek, Jana Chytilova--violin, Michal Dusek--viola, Ondrej Michal-cello, Michal Novak--double bass....

Bedrich Smetana: The Bartered Bride.(Video recording review)
April 1, 2008... Bedrich Smetana The Bartered Bride Lucia Popp--soprano, Siegfried Jerusalem--tenor, Karl Ridderbusch--bass, Alfred Sramek baritone, Gertrude Jahn--mezzo soprano, Walter Fink--bass, Czeslawa Slania--alto, Heinz Zednik--tenor, Erich Kunz...

Antonin Dvorak: String Quintet in G major with Double Bass op. 77, Piano Quintet no. 2 in A major op. 81.(Sound recording review)
April 1, 2008... Antonin Dvorak String Quintet in G major with Double Bass op. 77, Piano Quintet no. 2 in A major op. 81 Laurene Durantel--double bass, Kathryn Stott--piano, The Skampa Quartet: Pavel Fischer, Jana Lukasova--violin, Radim Sedmidubsky--viola,...

Vaclav Talich: Talich Special Edition 16 (Benda, Dvorak, Suk, Tchaikovsky).(Sound recording review)
April 1, 2008... Vaclav Talich Talich Special Edition 16 (Benda, Dvorak, Suk, Tchaikovsky) The Czech Philharmonic, The Orchestra of Prague Soloists, The Slovak Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Vaclav Talich. Production: Jana Gonda, Petr Kadlec, Petr...

Vaclav Talich: Talich Special Edition 15.(Sound recording review)
April 1, 2008... Vaclav Talich Talich Special Edition 15 (Mozart: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major K 218, Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A major K 622, Serenade for Wind Instruments in E Flat Es K 361/370a Gran Partita) Jiri...

Frantisek Ondricek: Legendary Violinist and Composer.(Sound recording review)
April 1, 2008... Frantisek Ondricek Legendary Violinist and Composer Raff: Cavatina. J.S. Bach: Air. Ondricek: The Bartered Bride, Fantasia on a Theme op. 9, Scherzo capriccioso op. 18, Rhapsodie Boheme op. 21, Ondricek / Smetana: Skocna op. 15. Slavik:...

Antonin Dvorak: Serenade in E major for String Orchestra, op. 22, Serenade for Wind Instruments, op. 44 Josef Suk Meditation on the St. Wenceslas Chorale, op. 35a.(Sound recording review)
April 1, 2008... Antonin Dvorak Serenade in E major for String Orchestra, op. 22, Serenacle for Wind Instruments, op. 44 Josef Suk Meditation on the St. Wenceslas Chorale, op. 35a Prague Chamber Philharmonic, Jakub Hrusa. Production: Petr Vit. Text:...

Josef Suk: Symphony in E major Antonin Dvorak In Nature's Realm, Carnival.(Sound recording review)
April 1, 2008... Josef Suk Symphony in E major Antonin Dvorak In Nature's Realm, Carnival Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK, Tomag Netopil. Production: Petr Vit. Text: Cz., Eng., Ger., Fr. Recorded: live, Oetober 2007, Smetana Hall, Prague. Released: 2008....

Juan Crisostomo de Arriaga: Three Quartets (D minor, A major, E flat major).(Sound recording review)
April 1, 2008... Juan Crisostomo de Arriaga Three Quartets (D minor, A major, E flat major) The Stamic Quartet: Jindrich Pazdera, Josef Kekula--violins, Jan Peruska--viola, Vladimir Leixner--cello. Production: Josef Kekula, Tereza Kramplova. Text:...