Czech Music

[Dundonnell]

I got a nice response from Jakub Hrusa on his Facebook page to my suggestion that he try to do a commercial recording of the Kabelac :)

[guest54]

Thanks a lot to mjkFendrich for the Kabelac - I'm downloading it just now!

[magmasystems]

Thanks very much for the Kabalec video. I am a long-time fan of Kabalec, starting with the the old "8 Inventions for Percussion, op 45", which I had on a old recording by Les Percussions de Strasbourg.

[Amphissa]

I uploaded an unusual recording of music by Fibich, which had been lost over at UC. Thanks to fr8nks for the original upload. Enjoy.

[jowcol]

Frantisek Emmert: Symphony 7


From the collection of Karl Miller


Brno State Philharmonic Orchestra
Frantisek Kilek, conductor

From the Czech Music Information Center:

After completing his studies in Prague he entered the Janacek's Academy of Performing Arts in Brno, where he studied composition with Jan Kapr (1961 - 1965). He continued as a postgraduate under guidance of Miloslav Istvan from 1967 to 1970. Since then he has become a lecturer in instrumentation and music theory at the Janacek's Academy, from 1975 he has lectured also in composition (in 2006 he was appointed professor). His compositional output includes such large music forms as symphonies, cantatas and oratorios, and more intimate pieces (vocal and chamber music). His Christian faith is a great source of inspiration for most of his works.

[Jolly Roger]

Frantisek Emmert: Symphony 7


From the collection of Karl Miller


Brno State Philharmonic Orchestra
Frantisek Kilek, conductor

From the Czech Music Information Center:

After completing his studies in Prague he entered the Janacek's Academy of Performing Arts in Brno, where he studied composition with Jan Kapr (1961 - 1965). He continued as a postgraduate under guidance of Miloslav Istvan from 1967 to 1970. Since then he has become a lecturer in instrumentation and music theory at the Janacek's Academy, from 1975 he has lectured also in composition (in 2006 he was appointed professor). His compositional output includes such large music forms as symphonies, cantatas and oratorios, and more intimate pieces (vocal and chamber music). His Christian faith is a great source of inspiration for most of his works.

emmert's symphonies 6 and 9 are on utube..a search on first and last name combined should yeild them..

[Jolly Roger]

Another excellent and somewhat enigmatic czech composer is Kardos,Dezider(1914-1991)
a couple of his symphonies are on utube. Strange and compelling misc IMHO. not to be missed

[ttle]

Another excellent and somewhat enigmatic czech composer is Kardos,Dezider(1914-1991)
a couple of his symphonies are on utube. Strange and compelling misc IMHO. not to be missed

Kardoš was actually Slovak (Hungarian speaking I suppose). The 6th symphony and Slovakofonia are more persuasive to my ears than the 7th, even though the latter builds on a powerful basis.

[Jolly Roger]

Frantisek Emmert: Symphony 7


From the collection of Karl Miller


Brno State Philharmonic Orchestra
Frantisek Kilek, conductor

From the Czech Music Information Center:

After completing his studies in Prague he entered the Janacek's Academy of Performing Arts in Brno, where he studied composition with Jan Kapr (1961 - 1965). He continued as a postgraduate under guidance of Miloslav Istvan from 1967 to 1970. Since then he has become a lecturer in instrumentation and music theory at the Janacek's Academy, from 1975 he has lectured also in composition (in 2006 he was appointed professor). His compositional output includes such large music forms as symphonies, cantatas and oratorios, and more intimate pieces (vocal and chamber music). His Christian faith is a great source of inspiration for most of his works.

emmert's symphonies 6 and 9 are on utube..a search on first and last name combined should yeild them..

My ancestry is Czech-Slovak and my grandfather used to work in the Slovak coal mines before moving to Pennsylvania to do the same.
Emmert's 6th symphony (again on u-tube) really speaks to me as it is a bone-chilling account of a mine accident.

Emmert,František Gregor - Symphony No. 6 Mine Nelson
Brno State Philharmonic Orch,Jirí Belohlávek
1.16 h 45 min
2.Despiration - Hope
3.The Song of the Mining District
4.The Lamps Light

[Gauk]

The file I posted of Korte's "Story of the Flutes" was missing about a minute of music at the end for some reason. Now fixed.

[Gauk]

Pavel Bořkovec

String Quartet No 1

Vlach Quartet

Those familiar with Bořkovec's music may find this a surprise. It is an early work from 1925 and written in a rather rhapsodic style, perhaps recalling Roslavets. The work is in one movement.

Mono sound only - source is a very old Supraphon LP.

[jowcol]

I just posted Karel Husa's Concerto for Orchestra from Karl's Collection.  He was technically an American citizen by then, so I flipped an coin, and heads put him in the Czech composer section!

[Gauk]

Czech music for winds

Jiří Jaroch - Metamorphoses for 12 winds

Chamber Harmony ensemble

Ivan Jirko - Sonata for 14 winds and timpani

1. Andante
2. Allegro con brio
3. Andante - allegro assai

Czech Phil. Wind Instruments Ensemble, cond. Vladimir Černý

Karel Janeček - Grand Symposium, chamber music for 15 solists

1. Introduction
2. Stories
3. Meditation
4. To action

Czech Phil. Wind Instruments Ensemble, cond. Vladimir Černý

Let me know if there is any problem with the links, please.

[jowcol]

Music of Vitezslava Kaprálová


from the collection of Karl Miller


Partita for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 29 (1939)
Jindrich Duras, piano
Plzensky roshlasovy orchestr/Josef Blacky
Source LP: Supraphon 119174BG

For Ever; What is my Sorrow? Hands; The Letter
Jill Gomez, soprano
John Constable, piano
[15 APril 1988]

[jowcol]

Bohuslav Martinu: Magic Nights

from the collection of Karl Miller



Daniela Sounova, soprano
Prague RSO/Bostock
[24 September 1990]