Czech Music articles from July 2005

Czech Music archives from July 2005

Editorial.(Editorial)
July 1, 2005... Dear Readers, Alois Haba certainly deserves the amount of space we have devoted to him in this issue. He was a highly distinctive experimental composer and music theorist and a no less important teacher. One of the few 20th-century Czech...

Every era has to give new substance to the ritual: an interview with Milos Stedron.(Cover Story)
July 1, 2005... Milos Stedron (*1942) is one of the most important Czech musicologists and composers of today. His main interest as a musicologist is Leos Janacek (he has written numerous musicological studies, and for example contributed to the reconstruction...

The Haba "school".
July 1, 2005... We must exercise a certain caution when using the word "school" in the sense of a musical movement. Admittedly it is now conventional in music history to employ terms like the "Low Countries", "Neapolitan" and "Venetian" schools to...

Martin Smolka: a microsentimental composer.
July 1, 2005... "Wherever I mention that I use quarter-tones, sooner or later someone brings up the name of Haba. But I came to microintervals as part of the common equipment of post-war New Music and didn't concern myself much with Haba". We would be hard put...

Alois Haba (21st June 1893-18th November 1973): between tradition and innovation.(profiles)
July 1, 2005... In the general perspective of music history, Alois Haba is usually characterised as one of the leading protagonists of the Central European inter-war avant-garde that moved between Vienna, Berlin and Prague. In the specific context of Czech...

Ostrava days of new music 2005.
July 1, 2005... Although he has lived mainly in the United States since the end of the Sixties, Petr Kotik, the composer, flautist and leader of the New York S.E.M. Ensemble, is a very important figure in contemporary Czech music. When in 2001 he came up with...

Stravinsky: Les Noces, Cantata, Mass.
July 1, 2005... Karel Ancerl--Gold Edition (Vol. 32) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Stravinsky: Les Noces, Cantata, Mass Libuse Domaninska, Barbara Robotham--soprano, Marie Mrazova--mezzo soprano, Ivo Zidek, Gerald English--tenor, Dalibor Jedlicka--bass,...

The Complete Symphonies.
July 1, 2005... Antonin Dvorak [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Complete Symphonies The Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Valek. Production: Czech Radio, Daniela Ruzkova. Text: Eng., Ger., French, Czech. Recorded: 2000-2003. Published: 2004. TT:...

Compositions for Viola da Gamba.
July 1, 2005... Gottfried Finger [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Compositions for Viola da Gamba Petr Wagner--viola da gamba, Ensemble Tourbillon. Production: Vitezslav Janda. Text: Czech, Eng. Recorded: 1/2005, Waldorf School, Pribram. Published: 2005....

Paride et Elena.
July 1, 2005... Christoph Willibald Gluck [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Paride et Elena Magdalena Kozena, Susan Gritton, Carolyn Sampson, Gillian Webster, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh. Production: Christopher Alder. Text: Eng. Ger. French....

Music for Harpsichord.
July 1, 2005... Bohuslav Martinu [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Music for Harpsichord Manuel de Falla Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin and Cello Monika Knoblochova--harpsichord, Lenka Kozderkova-Simkova--flute, Vladislav...

Czech String Quartet Discoveries.
July 1, 2005... Stamic Quartet [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Czech String Quartet Discoveries Stamic Quartet. Text: Czech, Eng. Recorded: 11/2004, 1/2005, Protestant Church "U Jakobova zebriku", Prague. Published: 2005. DDD. 1 CD Stamic...

Antonin Dvorak: Slavonic Dances.
July 1, 2005... Vaclav Talich--Special Edition 1 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Antonin Dvorak: Slavonic Dances The Czech Philharmonic, Vaclav Talich. Production: Jana Gonda, Petr Kadlec, Petr Vit. Text: Eng., Ger., French, Czech. Recorded: 1950....