Czech Music articles from October 2005

Czech Music archives from October 2005

Editorial.(Editorial)
October 1, 2005... Dear Readers This is the last issue of Czech Music for 2005. It is also the sixth issue I have edited. That is not many issues, even for a quarterly, but all the same (or just for that reason!) I would like to ask you, our readers, to...

The pianist Martin Kasik beyond the reach of ordinary mortals.(Interview)
October 1, 2005... You have won a large number of prizes from competitions or from various foundations. Which of them do you value most? Do some of the competitions stick in your memory more than others? Of course every competition is a very much an adrenalin...

Masters of the piano in the Dvorak Hall of the Rudolfinum.(venue)
October 1, 2005... I travel a great deal and so I have a basis for comparison. I can say with a clear conscience that Prague is truly lucky in having acoustically good concert halls. The Dvorak Hall can hold its own even beside such celebrated venues as the...

Pavel Haas Quartet.(portrait)
October 1, 2005... Add their ages together and you get just a hundred and five, and since there are four of them that makes their average age a little over a quarter of a century. At the international Prague Spring Competition they introduced themselves under the...

The man who planted trees Alois Pinos at eighty.(profiles)
October 1, 2005... In the context of Czech music the composer Alois Pinos occupies a quite exceptional position. His creative type is remote from what is known as "Czech music making", and his output is more easily set in the context of rational or systems art,...

Wenceslao Pichl (1741-1805) was he a member of the Bologna Accademia Filarmonica?(profiles)
October 1, 2005... When the talented singer, violinist, composer, capellmeister and music historian Vaclav (Wenceslao) Pichl (1741-1805) was born in Bechyne in South Bohemia in 1741, he was entering the political and musical Europe of the Empress Marie Theresa...

Michal Nejtek.(Interview)
October 1, 2005... Michal Nejtek (1977) has been emerging as one of the most remarkable composers of the young Czech generation. While still a student he won a number of prizes for composing and he drew a great deal of attention for his graduation piece at the...

Zdenek Kosler let's do it properly first and only then be slavs.(portrait)
October 1, 2005... Ten years ago, when the conductor Zdenek Kosler died on the 2nd of July 1995, at the age of only sixty-seven, it was hard to avoid the feeling that fate had been unjust. We had prematurely lost a conductor who had always been a guarantee of...

The first sound transmission of a Czech opera.(history)
October 1, 2005... Two years ago Czech Radio celebrated its eightieth birthday (it started transmitting in May 1923), no later than anywhere else. The new invention had spread like an avalanche and the Czechoslovak Republic had been among the first countries to...

Jan Antonin Benda.
October 1, 2005... Jan Antonin Benda Concertos for Harpsichord Obligato, Two Violins, Viola and Cello Collegium 1704: Vaclav Luks--harpsichord, musical director, Lenka Koubkova, Jan Hadek--violins, Michal Kucharik--viola, Libor Masek--cello. Production:...

Gabriela Benackova.
October 1, 2005... Gabriela Benackova Arias Gabriela Benackova--soprano, Czech Philharmonic, Orchestra of the National Theatre and its Choir, Orchestra of the Janacek Opera in Brno, Bohumil Gregor, Vaclav Neumann, Zdenek Kosler, Sir Charles Mackerras,...

Antonin Dvorak.
October 1, 2005... Antonin Dvorak The Symphonic Poems on Erben's Cycle of Poems Kytice [Bouquete] Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle. Production: Stephen Johns. Text: Eng., Ger., French: 2004. Published: 2005. TT: 48:48 + 35:00. DDD. 2 CD EMI...

Bohuslav Martinu.
October 1, 2005... Bohuslav Martinu String Quartets nos. 3, 4, 5 Emperor String Quartet. Production: Robert Suff. Text: Eng., Ger., French. Recorded: 8/2002, Holy Trinity Church, Wentworth, South Yorkshire. Published: 2004. TT:61:10. DDD. 1 CD...

Dmitri Shostakovich.
October 1, 2005... Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Trio no. 1 op. 8, Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor op. 67, Seven Songs (Alexander Blok) op. 127 ArteMiss Trio: Adela Stajnochrova--violin, Alzbeta Vlckova--cello, Jana Holmanova--piano, Alzbeta Polackova--soprano....

Vaclav Talich--Special Edition 3.
October 1, 2005... Vaclav Talich--Special Edition 3 Leos Janacek: Taras Bulba Josef Suk: Zrani [Ripening] The Women's Choir of the Czech Choir, Choirmaster Jan Kuhn, the Czech Philharmonic, Vaclav Talich, assistant Zdenek Bilek. Production: Jana...