Czech Music articles from January 2006

Czech Music archives from January 2006

Editorial.(Editorial)
January 1, 2006... A major theme in this issue of Czech Music is the manufacture of musical instruments in the Czech Republic. When we look back on the history of instrument-making here, it is hard not to feel a certain nostalgia and a certain bitterness. In the...

In opera direction a generalising approach means the absolute end.(interview)(Cover story)
January 1, 2006... if David Radok happens not to be directing in Sweden, Denmark, France or somewhere else, or not to be staying in his father Alfred Radok's house in Kolodeje in South Bohemia, you will find him in his pleasant attic flat in an old house in the...

Vaclav Frantisek Cerveny master of his craft.(instrument makers)
January 1, 2006... "Cerveny is always inventing something. He has already been inventing for more than thirty years, he is always at it. It is to do with a kind of obstinacy, which is also expressed in the fact that he cannot and will not endure having something...

Organ building in the Czech Lands.(instrument makers)
January 1, 2006... Pipe organs have always been and remain one of the most impressive and also complicated musical instruments. As with violins, the making of organs has always been wreathed in a certain amount of mystery. Organ builders have guarded their...

Manufacture of pianos in the Czech Republic: yesterday and today.(instrument makers)(Company overview)
January 1, 2006... The production of pianos, upright and grand, has a relatively long tradition in the Czech Lands. Together let us look back to the 18th century and the origins and development of a field that is today a significant part of the Czech music...

Four generations of Spidlens the legendary Czech violin makers.(instrument makers)
January 1, 2006... When it comes to violin makers, the Czechs, like the Italians, Germans, French and English, are among the handful of nations that can boast not simply a number of individual solitaire masters, but entire celebrated dynasties. In the Czech case,...

The composer Rudolf Komorous.(composer)
January 1, 2006... In the 1960s the composer Rudolf Komorous shone as one of the most radical and interesting members of the avant-garde in Czechoslovakia. After 1968 like many others he seemed to vanish off the face of the earth--at least from Czechoslovak...

The MUSICA NOVA competition.(competition)
January 1, 2006... Electro-acoustic (EA) music * developed in Czechoslovakia from the end of the 1950s, initially in close association with the poetics of Neosurrealism in fine art and literature (the composers R. Komorous, V. Sramek, L. Simon, L. Novak, P....

The Paganini of the bass clarinet is dead ...(josef horak)(Obituary)
January 1, 2006... On the 23rd of November the Czech bass clarinettist Josef Horak died in Biberach-Riss in Germany. I cannot and do not wish to write his obituary, but I have a need to respond with at least a few words to the death of a Czech musical personality...

The sources of Antonin Dvorak's music.(history)
January 1, 2006... Antonin Dvorak (8th of September 1841 - 1st of May 1904), one of the most world-famous, admired and also beloved of Czech composers, was born 165 years ago in the village of Nelahozeves in Central Bohemia. Dvorak's biography and his importance...

Mlada Krev Young Blood.(announcement)
January 1, 2006... YOUNG BLOOD The Music of Young Czech Composers Michal Nejtek: Nuberg 05, Miroslav Srnka: String Quartet no.3, Ondrej Adamek: Strange Night in Daylight, Milos Orson Stedron: Prosper and Gamble, Marketa Dvorakova: Waters, Petr Bakla:...

Due Boemi di Praga.
January 1, 2006... Due Boemi di Praga Due Boemi di Praga Yesterday and Today (Stedron, Parsch, Blatny) Due Boemi di Praga: Josef Horak--bass clarinet, Emma Kovarnova--piano; Vaclav Kunt--flute, Rudolf Stastny and Jiri Benes--viola, Bedrich...

Antonin Dvorak.
January 1, 2006... Antonin Dvorak Concerto in B minor for Cello and Orchestra op. 104 Dumkas op. 90 Jean-Guihen Queyras--cello, Isabelle Faust--violin, Alexander Melnikov--piano, The Prague Chamber Philharmonic, Jiri Belohlavek. Production: Martin...

Bedrich Smetana.
January 1, 2006... Bedrich Smetana Ma vlast - My Country London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis. Production: James Mallinson. Text: Eng., Fr., Ger. Recorded: 10. - 15. 5. 2005, Barbican, London. Released: 2005. TT: 75:15. DDD. 1 CD LSO Live LS00061...

Bedrich Smetana.
January 1, 2006... Bedrich Smetana Piano Works (Macbeth a carodejnice [Macbeth and the Witches], Zvedavy [Curious], Videni na plese [Vision at the Ball], Bettina polka [Betty's Polka], Concert Etude in C major, Concero Etude in G sharp minor op. 17 "On...

Bohuslav Matej Cernohorsky.
January 1, 2006... Bohuslav Matej Cernohorsky Laudetur Jesus Christus (selection from the work) Pavel Cerny - organ, Hipocondria Ensemble, Jan Hadek - Art. Dir. Societas Incognitorum, Eduard Tomastik - Art. Dir. Production: Vitezslav Janda. ...

Antonin Dvorak.
January 1, 2006... Antonin Dvorak Svata Ludmila - St Ludmila op. 71 B 144 Eva Urbanova, Bernarda Fink, Stanislav Matis, Ales Briscein, Peter Mikulas, The Prague Philharmonic Choir, Bambini di Praga, The Czech Philharmonic, Jiri Belohlavek. Production:...

Antonin Dvorak.
January 1, 2006... Antonin Dvorak Symphony no. 9in E minor op. 95 "From the New World" Bohuslav Martinu Symphony no. 2 Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi. Production Robert Woods. Text: English. Recorded: 2005. Released: 2005. TT: 68:...

Jan Dismas Zelenka.
January 1, 2006... Jan Dismas Zelenka Composizioni per Orchestra Collegium 1704: Vaclav Luks - harpsichord, Xaver Julien Laferriere - solo violin, Helena Zemanova, Marketa Zemancova - 1st violins, David Plantier, Olivia Centurioni - 2nd violins,...

Martina Jankova Voyage.
January 1, 2006... Martina Jankova Voyage (Mussorgsky, R. Strauss, Schoeck, Dvorak) Martina Jankova - soprano. Production: Martina Jankova, Malgorzata Albinska-Frank, Daniel Goodwin. Text: Ger., French, Czech. Recorded: Radio Studio DRS Zurich, 9/2004....

Josef Suk, Rudolf Firkusny.
January 1, 2006... Josef Suk, Rudolf Firkusny (Dvorak, Janacek, Brahms, Beethoven) Josef Suk - violin, Rudolf Firkusny - piano. Production: Petr Vit. Text: Eng., Ger., Fr., Czech. Recorded, IMF Prague Spring, Dvorak Hall of the Rudolfinum, 18.5. 1992....