Czech Music articles from October 2007

Czech Music archives from October 2007

Dear readers.
October 1, 2007... Dear Readers, with this last issue for 2007, Czech Music Quarterly crowns its first year of existence in a new format and with a new graphic design. We think the magazine's new look has been a success and we hope we are not alone in...

Jan Talich: I don't feel any compulsion to take stock.(Interview)
October 1, 2007... Every meeting with the violinist Jan Talich brings romantic ideals about the music profession firmly back to earth. This experienced musician knows what it means to lead an orchestra and a quartet, to make solo performances and to teach and...

Festivals of classical music in the Czech Republic.(events)(Calendar)
October 1, 2007... Currently as many as two hundred festivals of classical music take place in the Czech Republic every year, thirty-six in Prague alone. Our brief chronological overview can only hint at all the outstanding music that you can encounter in the...

Karel Ancerl the legendary conductor.(portrait)(Biography)
October 1, 2007... It is entirely right that Karel Ancerl should today be regarded as one of the greatest of Czech conductors and that his era in the role of head of the Czech Philharmonic should sometimes be characterised as a "golden age". The Supraphon...

Contemporary Czech music at the 50th Warsaw Autumn 2007.
October 1, 2007... The end of September saw the 50th year of the Warsaw Autumn, one of the most prestigious festivals of contemporary music. Unfortunately, Czech music has been and still is very sporadically represented at the festival, and this has been...

The clarinettist Karel Dohnal: three strikes and out.(Interview)
October 1, 2007... How can a performer today influence not just the musical consciousness of society but the community of composers too? We talked about the problem with Karel Dohnal, a young Czech clarinettist who has made a major name at home and abroad for his...

The Mannheim school: phenomenon and myth.(history)
October 1, 2007... This year's double Jan Vaclav Stamic anniversary (his dates are 19th June 1717-30th March 1757) is a good reason for a brief, overall consideration of the phenomenon, known as the Mannheim School, with which Stamic is so inseparably linked. The...

Antonin Dvorak.('Concerto for Cello and Orchestran in B minor' )(Sound recording review)
October 1, 2007... Antonin Dvorak Concerto for Cello and Orchetra in B minor, op. 104, The Quiet of the Forest, op. 68 no. 5, Rondo in G minor op. 94 Josef Suk Elegy for Violin, Cello and Orchestra op. 23 Peter Bruns--cello, Staatskapelle...

George Frideric Handel Arias.(Sound recording review)
October 1, 2007... George Frideric Handel Arias (Alcina, Hercules, Agrippina, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Joshua, Ariodante, Theodora, Amadigi di Gaula, Orlando, Rinaldo) Magdalena Kozena--mezzo soprano, Venice Baroque Orchestra, artistic director Andrea...

Johannes Brahms.(Sound recording review)
October 1, 2007... Johannes Brahms Cello Sonatas no. 1 in E minor op. 38, no. 2 in F major op. 99 Jan Palenicek--cello, Jitka Cechova--piano. Production: Pavel Vlcek. Text: Cz., Eng. Recorded: 12/2006, Prague. Released: 2007. TT: 53:36. DDD. 1 CD...

Frederic Chopin.(Sound recording review)
October 1, 2007... Frederic Chopin Sonata in G minor for Piano and Cello op. 65; Introduction and Polonaise Brillante in C major for Cello and Piano op. 3; Grand duo concertante E major on a theme from Meyerbeer's opera Robert le Diable for cello and piano;...

Bedrich Smetana: The Two Widows.(Opera review)
October 1, 2007... Bedrich Smetana The Two Widows Marie Podvalova--soprano, Marie Tauberova--soprano, Beno Blachut--tenor, Eduard Haken--bass, Oldrich Kovar--tenor, Miloslava Fidlerova--soprano, Czechoslovak Radio Choir, Jiri Pinkas--choirmaster,...

Salve Mater, salve Jesu.(Sound recording review)
October 1, 2007... Salve Mater, salve Jesu. Chant and polyphony from Bohemia around 1500 (Anonymus, Ghiselin-Verbonet, Obrecht, Brumel, Josquin) Schola Gregoriana Pragensis, Capilla Flamenca, Barbara Maria Willi--organ. Production: Shulamith...

Leos Janacek.(Sound recording review)
October 1, 2007... Leos Janacek On an Overgrown Path, 1st and 2nd Series Gideon Klein Sonata for Piano Ivo Kahanek--piano. Production: Pavel Vlcek. Text: Cz., Eng. Recorded: February 2007, Studio Martinek, Prague. Released: 2007. TT: 56:33....