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Czech hornist, composer and choirmaster
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2022-05-03 07:13:40
Northern Chords Festival 2022
St James’ and St Basil’s Church The 2022 Northern Chords Festival will be taking place at St James’ and St Basil’s Church, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 9XP, over the weekend of 14 and 15 May 2022. Founded in 2009 by cellist and conductor Jonathan Bloxham, this year's festival features young artists from the festival's inaugural Mentorship Scheme as well as the Northern Chords Festival Orchestra. The festival opens with a gala concert celebrating the festival's Mentorship Scheme. Jonathan Bloxham presents an evening with this year's mentees, Jacob Bettinelli (bass-baritone), Kryštof Kohout (violin), Harvey Lin (piano), Lucy Walker (composer), including a new work by Lucy Walker written for the other mentees. Saturday sees mezzo-soprano Claire Barnett-Jones (winner of the Audience Prize at the Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 2021) and tenor Ben Johnson (one of the festival's mentors for 2022 and winner of the Cardiff Audience Prize in 2013) joining forces […]
2021-08-04 00:02:00
Mozart: String quintets 1-6 -- Smetana Quartet, Suk (1981-83)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Smetana QuartetJiří Novák, Lubomír Kostecký, vnMilan Škampa, vaAntonín Kohout, vcand Josef Suk, va Mozart String quintets n1 in B-flat KV174 & 5 in D KV593 [1983]01-04 Quintet n1 in B-flat KV174 (I Allegro moderato - II Adagio - III Menuetto ma allegretto - IV Allegro)05-08 Quintet n5 in D KV593 (I Larghetto-Allegro - II Adagio - III Menuetto-Allegretto - IV Allegro) flac tracks, front and back covers302 MB1fichier https://1fichier.com/?zxrfqmoycti6xm2bbc0nWeTransfer (for 7 days) https://we.tl/t-HsJGCVC04B Mozart String quintets n2 in c KV406 & 6 in E-flat KV614 [Denon 1981]01-04 Quintet n2 in c KV406(516b) (I Allegro - II Andante - III Minuetto in canone - Trio in canone al rovescio - IV Allegro)05-08 Quintet n6 in E-flat KV 614 (I Allegro di molto - II Andante - III Menuetto- Allegretto - IV Allegro) […]
2016-08-18 01:15:00
Organ works by XVIII century composers connected with Prague Pavel Kohout, organ Most pieces on this remarkable disc radiate an aura of refined melancholy. This recording was a revelation for me, as having listened to and played the JS Bach pieces a few hundred times I hadn't heard about J.F.N. Seger at all. Now I'm convinced that every organ music afficionado should acquaint him- or herself with his work :-) [flac, photos] Editions Hortus 2008
2013-02-26 19:12:00
Renowned Czech cellist whose dream of carrying on the work of the Bohemian Quartet was realised by the Smetana groupFew musicians have realised their dreams as comprehensively as the great Czech cellist Antonín Kohout, who has died aged 93. He was the guiding spirit of the Smetana Quartet from its debut in 1945 to its dissolution in 1989; and as a teacher he nurtured such groups as the Panocha, Talich, Prazak, Kocian and Wihan Quartets, to whom he acted as an artistic counsellor just as he himself was helped by musicians of an earlier era. The Smetana Quartet gave countless performances all over the world – thousands of Smetana's First Quartet in E minor, From My Life, alone – and its recording career covered 40 years, from 78rpm sets through mono, stereo and quadraphonic LPs to compact discs. In 1972, before the advent of the CD, it made the very first […]
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