Recently added articles from Czech Music:
Dear readers.(Editorial)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009; ... This issue is rather untypical--it comes with a CD that is entirely devoted to Czech popular music. Yet the "pop" on the CD is not at all the commercial globalised mainstream kind, but consists of original works of a high standard, as well as showing a wide range of styles. Still, it IS ...
Michal Rataj: building a visual world without pictures.(Interview)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Michal Rataj moves with the same ease in the field of composing "classical" music (although entirely contemporary in idiom), and the world of electronic technologies and the kind of concepts of music that go far beyond the writing of black dots on paper. Because Michal is also a radio ...
Twenty years of the contemporary in Czech popular music.(theme)
Jan 01, 2009; ... It is now nearly twenty years since the chinking of keys on Wenceslas Square sounded the death of a whole era in Czech history. In line with developments in the surrounding East European countries, the chain of events set off by the demonstrations in November 1989 led to the fall of ...
How will the financial crisis affect the arts in the Czech Republic?(analysis)
Jan 01, 2009; ... All the indications are that the cultural sphere and the "creative industries" altogether will be facing lean times in the coming years, especially as concerns funding. It is therefore high time for us to be asking how the crisis will impact on music and the arts in general in the Czech ...
Ladislav Mose Blum an audio document of chant in a Prague synagogue.(document)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Jewish culture found itself in a strange position in post-war Czechoslovakia. While in the 1950s the communist authorities made it very clear that they were scarcely less antisemitic than the Nazis, in subsequent decades they did not express this attitude so unambiguously. Not that their ...
Twines and tangles: this text is a response to the review of J. Tyrrell's monograph on Janacek from the pen of Milos Stedron, which was printed in CMQ 2/2008. Michael Beckerman is a professor at New York University and the author of the monograph Janacek as Theorist (Pendragon Press, 1994). (Ed. note).(polemic)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... After several breathless pages of unvarnished praise in his recent review of John Tyrrell's roughly 2000 page Janacek: Years of a Life, Milos Stedron pauses to state his primary objection to the 3.6 kg biography: One aspect which I do not agree with and which I consider to be an ...
Radio days: the beginnings of radio broadcasting in inter-war Czechoslovakia.(history)
Jan 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If we want to look at musical production from the 20th century to the present, then it is clear that one of the factors that strongly influenced musical life and cannot be overlooked is the rise of radio and radio broadcasting. Today taken for granted as ...
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber Missa Salisburgensis, Plaudite tympana.(Sound recording review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Tibicines, artistic directori Igino Conforzi, La Stagione Armonica, conductor Sergio Balestracci. Production: Gian Andrea Lodovici. Text: Eng., Ger., Fr. Recorded: Dec. 2003 in the Church of Santa Maria Assunta, Villa Lagarina--province of Trento, Italy. Released: 2008. TT: 52:28. DDD. 1 ...
Leos Janacek Lachian Dances, The Cunning Little Vixen (suite in the arrangement of Frantisek Jilek), Taras Bulba.(Sound recording review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Brno Philharmonic, Jakub Hrusa. Production: Matous Vlcinsky. Text: Cz., Eng., Ger., Fr. Recorded: Mar.-Apr. at Studio Stadion, Brno. Released: 2008. TT: 63:11. DDD. 1 CD Supraphon SU 3923-2. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the Janacek discography of our oldest record firm ...
Bohuslav Martinu.(Sound recording review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Chamber Music with Viola Three Madrigals (Duo no. 1) for Violin and Viola H 313, Duo no. 2 for Violin and Viola H 331, Sonata for Viola and Piano H 355, Chamber Music no. 1 for Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello, Harp and Piano H 376 Alexander Besa--viola, Bohuslav Matousek--violin ...
Brahms.(Sound recording review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Libor Novacek--piano. Production: Landor Productions Ltd. Text: Eng., Ger., Fr. Recorded: Jan. 2008, Potton Hall, Suffolk. Released: 2008. TT: 75:48. DDD. 1 CD Landor Records LAN285. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Last year in England the pianist Libor Novacek recorded what ...
The Smetana Trio: Tchaikovsky, Dvorak.(Sound recording review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Smetana Trio: Jitka Cechova--piano, Jana Vonaskova-Novakova--violin, Jan Palenicek--cello. Production: Matous Vlcinsky. Text: Cz., Eng., Ger., Fr. Recorded: Apr-May 2008, Bohemia Music Studio, Prague. Released: 2008. TT: 73:12. DDD. 1 CD Supraphon SU 39492. [ILLUSTRATION ...
Darius Milhaud: Le Boeuf sur le toit.(Sound recording review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Darius Milhaud Le Boeuf sur le toit Benjamin Britten Suite for Violin and Piano Bohuslav Martinu Sonata no. 3 for violin and piano Jana Vonaskova-Novakova--violin, Petr Novak--piano. Production: Pavel Vlcek. Text: Eng., ...
Terezin/Theresienstadt: Weber, Svenk, Strauss, Roman, Taube, Ullmann, Krasa, Haas, Schulhoff.(Sound recording review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Anne Sofie von Otter--mezzosoprano, Christian Gerhaher--baritone, Daniel Hope--violin, Bengt Forsberg--piano, Gerold Huber--piano, Bebe Rasenfors--accordion, double bass, guitar, Ib Hausmann--clarinet, Philip Dukes--viola, Josephine Knight--cello. Production: Valerie Gross, Marion Thiem ....
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies 7, 8 & 9, American Suite.(Sound recording review)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Libor Pesek. Production: Andrew Keener. Text: Eng., Ger., Fr. Recorded: 1987, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. Released: 2008. TT: 75:12, 67:12. DDD. 2 CD Virgin Classics/ EMI 50999 5 22039 2 3. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The ...
Vaclav Luks: I don't want to make compromises.(Interview)
Oct 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Back when historically authentic interpretation was still in its infancy in the Czech Republic, Vaclav Luks (born 1970) hitch-hiked to Switzerland to take the admission exams for the renowned Schola cantorum Basiliensis. Since then quite a few years have ...
Who plays contemporary music in the Czech Republic?(theme)(Essay)
Oct 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For music to be "contemporary" it is not enough for it to have been written recently; it also has to express something of the pulsing cultural spirit of its time. At first sight of the score, or first listening, it has to be clear that this is music that ...
Musica Nova.(event)
Oct 01, 2008; ... November 2008 saw the 17th year of the international electro-acoustic music (EA) competition MUSICA NOVA. It attracted 76 entries from 23 countries in its two categories: pure EA (Category A) and the combination of a live element with EA (Category B), Multimedia compositions are excluded ...
Contempuls 2008.(event)
Oct 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At last Prague has its own contemporary music festival worthy of its name! In the rather conservatively orientated cultural life of the city, an event of this kind has been conspicuous by its absence for years. But now, despite the financially enforced ...
Marko Ivanovic: at first the operas chose me.(Interview)
Oct 01, 2008; ... A modern opera in the Czech Republic? Take a look at the programme and it's very likely that Marko Ivanovic will be the conductor. Smiling, and full of unbounded energy, he is very clear and definite in his ideas and views. This interview gives you a chance to hear his opinions both as a ...