Czech Music articles from July 2008

Czech Music archives from July 2008

Dear readers.
July 1, 2008... Dear Readers, I must confess that when thinking about themes for each new issue of Czech Music Quarterly, I try to avoid anniversaries. I'm not quite sure why, but I always have the feeling that running articles just on the basis that it's...

Milan Skampa: encircled by music.(Interview)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] To meet Milan Skampa, eighty years old and still radiating vitality, means to take a long trip (for the professor is talkative and has a tremendous stock of stories) back to times when morality was the sister of...

France conquers Janacek.(events)(Leos Janacek)(Conference news)
July 1, 2008... The music of Leos, Janacek has never had an easy time in French musical life. Granted, the Moravian Teachers' Choir Association first brought Janacek's choral music to France in a successful tour in 1908 at a time when Janacek had not yet been...

The voice of an artist: the life and music of Vitezslava Kapralova.(portrait)(Biography)
July 1, 2008... While in most composers' lives the first twenty-five years are generally a period of creative development, there have been artists who produced music at a very young age that is remarkably mature and refined in both form and technique. In the...

Martinu revisited: the rediscovery of a many-sided Czech composer of the 20th century.(event)
July 1, 2008... Fifty years on from the death of a composer is often a crucial test period for the durability of his work. The last living direct relatives, close friends and musical associates of the composer are departing from the scene and the work has to...

The open approach of Jiri Kaderabek.(Interview)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Composer Jiri Kaderabek is an essentially creative man of many talents, wide interests and the unusual ability to keep aiming beyond himself. Never content to stick with what he has achieved, he is more willing than...

A music-political confession Bohuslav Martinu's Memorial to Lidice.(history)(Critical essay)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bohuslav Martinu's Memorial to Lidice was written in 1943, after the Czech village of Lidice had been razed to the ground by the Nazis one year before. This atrocity has led many artists to create diverse works on...

Vitezslava Kapralova.(Sound recording review)
July 1, 2008... Vitezslava Kapralova April Preludes op. 13, Legend op. 3a, Burlesque op. 3b, Five compositions for piano op. 1, Eiegy for violin and piano, Sonata Appassionata op. 6, Variations sur le Carillon de l'Eglise Saint-Etienne-du-Mont op. 16,...

Bohuslav Martinu.(Sound recording review)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bohuslav Martinu Sonata for Cello and Piano no. 3 H.340, Variations on a Slovak Folksong H.378 Petr Eben: Suita Balladica for Cello and Piano, Lubos Sluka: Sonata for Cello and Piano Tomas Jamnik--cello, Ivo...

Leos Janacek: From the House of the Dead.(Audiovisual review)
July 1, 2008... Leos Janacek From the House of the Dead Olaf Bar, Eric Stoklossa, Stefan Margita, Peter Straka, Vladimir Chmelo, Jiri Sulzenko, Heinz Zednik, John Mark Ainsley, Jan Galla, Gerd Grochowski and others--singers; Mahler Chamber Orchestra,...

Antonin Dvorak: Stabat Mater Original Version.(Sound recording review)
July 1, 2008... Antonin Dvorak Stabat Mater Original Version Alexandra Coku--soprano, Renata Pokupic--alto, Pavol Breslik--tenor, Markus Butter--bass, Brigitte Engerer--piano, Accentus, Laurence Equilbey--conductor. Production: Didier Martin. Text:...

Karel Ancerl: Bedrich Smetana: My Country, Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto, film Who is Karel Ancerl.(Movie review)(Video recording review)
July 1, 2008... Karel Ancerl Bedrich Smetana: My Country, Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto, film Who is Karel Ancerl (Smetana, Beethoven) Henryk Szeryng--violin, The Czech Philharmonic, Karel Ancerl. Production: Matous Vlcinsky. Text: Cz., Eng.,...

Jan Dismas Zelenka.(Sound recording review)
July 1, 2008... Jan Dismas Zelenka Missa purificationis Beatae Virginis Mariae D dur (1733) ZWV 16, Litaniae lauretanae "Consolatrix afflictorum" (1744) ZWV 151 Gabriela Eibenova, Hana Blazikova--sopranos, Petra Noskaiova--contralto, Jaroslav...

Josef Bohuslav Foerster.(Sound recording review)
July 1, 2008... Josef Bohuslav Foerster Violin Concerto no. 1 in C Minor op. 88, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Minor op. 104 Ivan Zenaty--violin, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek--conductor. Production: Jana Gonda and Matous Vlcinsky....

Eva Urbanova: Best of Eva Urbanova.(Sound recording review)
July 1, 2008... Eva Urbanova Best of Eva Urbanova (Verdi, Puccini, Cilea, Mascagni, Janacek, Smetana) Eva Urbanova--soprano, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Jaroslav Brych --choirmaster, Choir of the National Theatre in Prague, Milan Maly--choirmaster,...

Baroque Bohemia & Beyond.(Sound recording review)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Baroque Bohemia & Beyond (Myslivecek, Gallina, Vent, Barta, Fiala) The Czech Chamber Philharmonic (artistic director Zdenek Adam), Vojtech Spurny--conductor, harpsichord. Text: Eng. Recorded: May 2007,...