Czech Music articles from July 2006

Czech Music archives from July 2006

Editorial.(Editorial)
July 1, 2006... Dear Reading, Czech Music is of course a magazine devoted to music--given its title it could hardly be anything else. Only there have been disputes over the definition and content of the word "music" for quite a long time, and the 20th...

Karel Husa: "like raindrops we have dispersed all over the immense world ...".(interview with Czech composer)(Interview)
July 1, 2006... The Czech composer, conductor and teacher Karel Husa celebrated his eighty-fifth birthday on the 7th of August this year. Born in Prague and trained at the Prague conservatory, he went into exile abroad after the communist putsch of February...

Czech chamber ensembles.(Czech Quartet)
July 1, 2006... This year we mark the 115th anniversary of the founding of the Czech Quartet, an ensemble that represented a breakthrough in the history of Czech chamber music. Of course, chamber music has a much longer history and its roots can be found both...

Milan Grygar: the picture of the sound and the sound of the picture.(portrait)(Biography)
July 1, 2006... The work of Milan Grygar (born 1926) involves an original conception, unique in Czech art, of the relationship between picture, sound and space. It resists established classifications in terms of style or generation, and shows closer links with...

Ervin Schulhoff: a musician without prejudices.(portrait)(Biography)
July 1, 2006... Ervin Schulhoff (1894-1942) was an important figure in the Czech avant-garde between the wars. His entire life was spent switching between Czech and German cultural environments. In his time it was mainly as an outstanding pianist that he was...

Monika Knoblochova: "there are lots of pieces still waiting for me".(harpsichordist)(Interview)
July 1, 2006... The harpsichord player Monika Knoblochova is one of the most striking representatives of the young generation of Czech musicians. Her field of active professional interests is unusually broad; in addition to the traditional harpsichord...

The music of the Bohemian Middle Ages.(history)
July 1, 2006... Today we are seeing ever more interest in historical or "early" music and its "authentic" performance. This has been moving successively further and further back into history, so that the initial interest in the Baroque period has led to the...

Ma vlast--My Country.(Sound recording review)
July 1, 2006... Bedrich Smetana [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ma vlast--My Country Czech Philharmonic, Vaclav Talich. Production: Jana Gonda, Petr Kadlec, Petr Vit. Text: Eng., Ger., Fr., Cz. Recorded: 6-7/1954, Prague Rudolfinum. Released: 2006. TT:...

Piano Concertos no. 1 in D Minor op. 15, no. 2 in B Flat Major op. 83.(Sound recording review)
July 1, 2006... Johannes Brahms [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Piano concertos no. 1 in D minor op. 15, no. 2 in B flat major op. 83 Ivan Moravec--piano, Czech Philharmonic, Jiri Belohlavek. Production: not stated. Text: Eng., Ger., Fr., Cz. Recorded:...

Complete Symphonies.(Sound recording review)
July 1, 2006... Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Complete Symphonies The Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Valek. Production: Vit Roubicek. Text: Eng., Ger., Fr., Cz. Recorded: 2/2003 (no.1), 10/2004 (no. 5), 1-2/2005 (nos....

Faust Mutationes.(Sound recording review)
July 1, 2006... Petr Eben [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Faust, Mutationes Gunther Rost--organ. Production: not stated. Text: Ger., Eng. Recorded: 27.-29. 11. 2001, St. Martin, Memmingen. Released: 2002. TT: 64:13. DDD. 1 CD Ursina Motette 12911. ...

Hiob.(Sound recording review)
July 1, 2006... Hiob Gunther Rost--organ. Production: not stated. Text: Ger., Eng. Recorded: 21.-22. 3. 2002, Tonhalle, Zurich. Released: 2002. TT: 60:22. DDD. 1 CD Ursina Motette 12921. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Bedrich Smetana.(Sound recording review)
July 1, 2006... Bedrich Smetana [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sny [Dreams], Album Leaves (B major, B flat minor, Toccatinas in B major, G major, G minor, E flat minor, B flat minor), Andante in E flat major, Polkas (E major, G minor, A major, F minor),...

Vaclav Talich--Special Edition 7.(Sound recording review)
July 1, 2006... Vaclav Talich--Special Edition 7 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Antonin Dvorak Symphonic Poems based on ballads by K. J. Erben--The Water Goblin, The Noon Witch, The Golden Spinning Wheel, The Dove The Czech Philharmonic, Vaclav...

II Serpente di Bronzo.(Sound recording review)
July 1, 2006... Jan Dismas Zelenka [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] II Serpente di Bronzo Alex Potter, Petra Noskaiova, Hana Blazikova, Peter Kooij, Jaroslav Brezina, Ensemble Inegal, Adam Viktora. Production: not stated. Text: Cz., Eng., Ger., Fr....

Antonin Dvorak for (young) pianists.(Sound recording review)
July 1, 2006... Tomas Visek [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Antonin Dvorak for (young) pianists Tomas Visek--piano. Production: Tomas Visek, Text; Cz., Eng., Ger. Recorded: January and February 2005. Released: 2005. TT: 77:39. DDD. 1 CD Rosa RD 1318...