Czech Music articles from January 2005

Czech Music archives from January 2005

Editorial.
January 1, 2005... Dear Readers, This issue of Czech Music is mainly devoted to percussion instruments. In it you will find an article on the music for percussion by the important Czech composer Miloslav Kabelac, whose work definitely deserves to be more...

Musico-farmer.(Cover Story)
January 1, 2005... Why do you so insist on using the word "percussionist" when it's a foreign word in Czech? I think "percussionist" is already actually quite a common term in Czech parlance. Maybe it's not so old as "bubenik" ["drummer"] but it's often...

Miloslav Kabelac and percussion: Miloslav Kabelac was featured in the Profiles supplement to Czech Music 2/2004. Much of his legacy consists of pieces for percussion or with prominent and major parts for percussion, and in this category Kabelac's work is exceptional in the context of classical music internationally, and not just the Czech tradition.
January 1, 2005... Miloslav Kabelac (1908-1979) showed a serious interest in percussion from the very beginning of his career as a composer. From the beginning, too, this interest was associated with another of Kabelac's interests, also relatively undeveloped in...

Zbynek Vostrak: (10th June 1920-4th August 1985).(profiles)
January 1, 2005... Twenty years ago (in 1985), the composer Zbynek Vostrak died at the age of 65. His death was not reported in the press, and none of his works appeared on concert or theatre programmes at the time. Vostrak had been among those artists who had...

Jan Krtitel Vanhal true patriot and zealous Christian: (12th May 1739-20th August 1813).(profiles)
January 1, 2005... Jan Krtitel Vanhal is known on Czech concert podia for his symphonies and above all four concertos--for double bass, flute, violin and organ. In fact he wrote a huge number of concertante and symphonic pieces, a series of string quartets,...

Martin Janicek's strange new layers.
January 1, 2005... A precise definition of sound art is obviously impossible, since it is used by different kinds of public to mean different expressions of acoustic creation. But maybe we can find a few fixed points. Sound is one element in many areas of visual...

Music in the domains of Cesky Krumlov, or the secret of the chateau depositary.
January 1, 2005... Cesky Krumlov is a noble South Bohemian town, one of the most visited in the Czech Republic. A Czech national cultural monument, in 1992 it was included in the UNESCO List of World Natural and Cultural Heritage, and the walls of its chateau...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 4 in G major.
January 1, 2005... Ludwig van Beethoven Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 4 in G major, op. 58 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Cesar Franck Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra Maurice Ravel Concerto in G major for Piano and Orchestra...

Piano Concerto in G minor.
January 1, 2005... Antonin Dvorak Piano Concerto in G minor, op. 33*, Zlaty kolovrat [The Golden Spinning Wheel] op. 109 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Pierre-Laurent Aimard--piano*, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Production:...

Rusalka.
January 1, 2005... Antonin Dvorak Rusalka Renee Fleming, Larissa Diadkova, Sergej Larin, Franz Hawlata, Eva Urbanova, Orchestra and Choirs of the Opera National de Paris, James Conlon, director Robert Carsen, stage design Michael Levine. Production: not...