Jaroslav Smolka News
Czech music educator, composer, musicologist and university educator (1933-2011)
- classical music
- Czech Republic
- composer, university teacher, musicologist, violinist, musician, music historian, dramaturge
Last update
2024-04-25
Refresh
2021-05-07 20:10:12
For the 2021-22 season, the Czech Philharmonic programmed the Mahler symphonies, as well as works by Strauss, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Rachmaninov, Martinů, and Janáček. Contemporary works will also be featured, such as those by Kabeláč, Ullmann, and Smolka, and new commissions by Bryce Dessner and Julian Anderson. During the pandemic, the orchestra streamed 16 concerts, reaching […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2018-04-22 07:47:37
Anniveraries, commissions and 2018/19 season at Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
[…] Czech Republic for 20 years of Luciano Berio's Sinfonia for 8 Voices and Orchestra, and the Czech première of Detlev Glanert's Weites Land, both composers with whom Bychkov has enjoyed a long and close association.For future seasons the orchestra has commissioned new works from 14 composers including Detlev Glanert (Germany); Thomas Larcher (Austria); Bryce Dessner (US); Julian Anderson (UK); and Thierry Escaich (France); and nine Czech composers Jiří Teml; Jiří Gemrot; Pavel Zemek Novák; Martin Smolka; Adam Skoumal; Miloš Orsoň Stědroň; Miroslav Srnka; Petr Wajsar; and Slavomír Hořínka.Bychkov's Tchaikovsky Project with the orchestra will culminate in with residencies in Prague, Vienna and Paris and the release by Decca of all Tchaikovsky’s symphonies, the three piano concertos, Romeo & Juliet, Serenade for Strings and Francesca da Rimini. Completing Decca's Dvořák cycle initiated by Jiří Bělohlávek, Principal Guest conductor Jakub Hrůša will conduct performances of Dvořák's Te Deum, Piano Concerto in G […]
2016-09-22 16:30:13
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra/Netopil (Supraphon) The best opera composers use their orchestras to tell the emotional stories that words can’t or won’t. Janáček was a master of this, but he didn’t write many passages for orchestra alone and so various conductors and musicologists have pilfered bits from his operas to be played as instrumental suites in concert. Even then, it’s no easy task, given that his vocal lines are so intertwined with his instruments: Janáček rhythms, especially, are all about the contours of everyday speech. This disc contains three hefty suites compiled from the operas Jenůfa, Katya Kabanová and Fate; they’re medleys of big themes and interludes in which vocal parts are sometimes replaced by instruments (a trumpet in Jaroslav Smolka’s Suite from Katya, for example) and which are played by the Prague orchestra under Tomáš Netopil with weighty carefulness. I missed the nimbleness and acerbic chatter of my favourite Janáček […]
No more?
Every day soclassiq looks for new articles, videos, concerts and so on about classical music and opera, their artists, venues, orchestras...
Jaroslav Smolka ? We have not gathered a lot of content on this topic yet but we continue to search.
or
- timeline: Composers (Europe). Performers (Europe).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): S...