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2021-11-10 17:14:11
We're coming to you from The Bohemian National Hall in New York City this evening for a special “Czech Serenade” presented by Charlotte White’s Salon de Virtuosi. Organized in collaboration with the Consulate General of the Czech Republic, tonight’s concert features young American cellist Derek Louie and Czech jazz vocalist Martina Barta performing an […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2018-10-16 19:58:00
Janáček Glagolitic Mass, Sinfonietta and more Bělohlávek Czech Philharmonic
[…] his orchestra lovingly shape the "Janáček:" signatures, star motifs and quirky whips of melody that leap out provocatively against dense, angular blocks of sound. The theme "Gospodi pomiluj gospodi pomiluj" rises first in the orchestra, then in the chorus. Extremely precise singing from the Prague Philharmonic Choir and the soloists Hibla Gerzmava, Veronika Hajnová, Stuart Neill, and Jan Martiník, well experienced regulars in this repertoire, and in this piece in particular. The organ (Aleš Bárta) enters gradually, almost quietly, so whern it bursts forth in the Allegro, it feels wildly explosive, inspiring the orchestra and the chorus. The Credo (Vĕruju) bursts as if a mighty force has been biding its time. Exquisite beautiful moments like the violins in the Sanctus (Svet) before exuberant rhythms return, rushing ever forwards. This performance was recorded live at the Rudolfinium in 2013 thus the intense immediacy. This Sinfonietta is a based on the […]
2018-09-25 08:27:01
Jiri Belohlavek & the Czech Philharmonic in Janacek
Janacek Glagolitic Mass, Taras Bulba, Sinfonietta, The Fiddler's Child; Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Hibla Gerzmava, Veronika Hajnova, Stuart Neill, Jan Martinik, Ales Barta, Jiri Belohlavek; DECCA Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 25 September 2018 Star rating: 4.5 (★★★★½) A rugged, outdoors approach to Jiri Belohlavek's recording of the original version of Janacek's Glagolitic Mass There has been a tendency to smooth out the awkward corners of Janacek's Glagolitic Mass to make it fit easily into the Western European tradition of choral/orchestral sacred works. Admittedly, this was a process started by the composer, whose revision of the mass following the 1927 premiere removed some of the more ruggedly awkward corners.Like Sir Charles Mackerras (who recorded the mass with the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra for Chandos in 1993), Jiri Belohlavek opts for Janacek's original version on this new disc from Decca where Belohlavek conducts almost entirely Czech forces, with […]
2017-03-27 16:31:45
Fire Walk with Me
This week brings another opera about which we’ve heard a lot but have had few opportunities to see onstage: The Fiery Angel by Sergei Prokofiev. This 2015 performance features noteworthy Czech and Slovakian singers in a production which marked a huge success for the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre of Ostrava. Baritone and Verdi specialist Martin Bárta won a singer-of-the-year award for his performance as Ruprecht. While Prokofiev is mostly thought of as a composer of symphonies, piano concerti, and the incredible Romeo and Juliet ballet score, he spent time on 14 operas from The Giant at age nine in 1900 until leaving Distant Seas unfinished when he died in 1953. He began The Fiery Angel in 1919, writing his own libretto based on Valery Bryusov’s 1908 novel with the same title. Due to its complexity, unfulfilled promises for a premiere, and–most significantly–its subject matter, that of demonic possession, it sat unfinished […]
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