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Czech music educator, violoncellist and university educator
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2020-06-29 14:20:42
Gluck, Henze and Janáček 2020
This Week in Classical Music: June 22, 2020. Henze, Gluck and Janáček. The calendar divides composers into serendipitous groups, and this week we have three that are as musically different as they can get. Christoph Willibald Gluck was a famous opera composer, who created a new style by merging the Italian and French traditions; for six years he was feted in Paris where some of his best operas, Orphée et Euridice, Iphigénie en Aulide, Alceste and Iphigénie en Tauride saw their premiers. Then, after one failure (with Echo et NarcisseI), he fell out of favor, left Paris and lived the rest of his live in Vienna suffering from melancholy. Gluck was born on July 2nd of 1714, you can read more about him here. While Gluck was born in what is now Germany, in his youth he spent many years in Prague, capital of the Czech Republic; Leoš Janáček, also […]
2017-02-09 17:45:07
The quartet was originally formed in 1972. The current quartet members are Jana Vonášková (violin), Vlastimil Holek, (violin), Josef Kluson, (viola), Michal Kanka, (cello). The quartet was formed by its original members when they were still students at the Prague Conservatory. Kluson is the only remaining founding member. The most recent addition to the quartet is violinist Jana Vonášková, previously a member of the Smetana Piano Trio. Born in 1979 in the Czech Republic, she studied at the Prague Conservatory, gaining a scholarship to continue her studies at the Royal College of Music in London. After graduating in 2005, she returned to Prague to study at the Academy of Performing Arts. The quartet has released over 60 recordings in the past 40 plus years including 30 award-winning ones with Praga/Harmonia Mundi. Read more about the quartet on their website – ici Join us on March 2nd […]
2015-08-18 01:00:00
Chamber Music by Braunfels, Busch, Martinu, Milhaud, Hindemith
Two Roads to Exile Adolf Busch (1891-1952): String Sextet Walter Braunfels (1882-1954): String Quintet ARC Ensemble Recorded 2009, TT 66:02 Paris, Spring of 1932 Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959): Two Dances for piano, from the ballet Spalicek Sonata no. 2 for violin and piano Ritournelles - Six Pieces for piano Sonata for two violins and piano Two Songs Serenade no. 2 for two violins and viola String Sextet Kocian Quartet, Prazak Quartet members, Daniel Wiesner, Boris Krajny Recorded 1997, TT 77:33 Suite for clarinet, violin and piano etc. Darius Milhaud (1892-1974): Suite, Op. 157b, for clarinet, violin and piano Scaramouche, Op. 165d Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 40 Clarinet Sonatina, Op. 100 Cinéma-Fantaisie d'après Le Boeuf sur le toit, Op. 58b Jean-Marc Fessard, Frédéric Pélassy, Eliane Reyes Recorded 2008, TT 67:57 Oktett, Septett, Heckelphon-Trio op 47 Paul Hindemith (1895-1963): Octet for clarinet, bassoon, horn, two […]
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