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Czech violinist, music educator and composer
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2018-03-02 09:12:36
ABC OnlineBut many of the visitors have come to say goodbye now news of its closure has broken. "We're just dealing with all the customers who are really upset and expressing their condolences," business owner Elisabeth Vodicka says. The decision to close was a ...
2017-08-22 01:00:00
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) DIMITRIJ (1882) Prague Radio Chorus Czech Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra dir: Gerd Albrecht Supraphon 11 1259-2 Stereo, [P] 1990 Currently out-of-print FLAC, cuesheets, logs, scans, booklet Leo Marian Vodička (tenor) Dmitrij Ivanovich Drahomíra Drobková (soprano) Marfa Ivanovna Magdaléna Hajóssyóvá (soprano) Marina Mnishkova Lívia Ághová (soprano) Xenia Borisovna Peter Míkulaš (bass) Pyotr Fyodorovich Basmanov Ivan Kusjner (baritone) Shuisky Ludĕk Vele (bass) Iov, the patriarch of Moscow Zdenĕk Harvánek, Neborsky, member of the Polish company Pavel Haderer, Buchinsky, member of the Polish company Recorded Dvořák Hall of the House of Artists, Prague on February 6th-14th, 1989 DDD Review from ClassicsToday.com, by Robert Levine Picking up where Boris Godunov leaves off, this opera's center is the false Dimitri who, certain of his legitimacy, enters Moscow with his Polish army and Marina […]
2017-02-07 22:15:56
Jesus Christ! Superstars?
Lyric Opera of Chicago’s General Director Anthony Freud and Music Director Sir Andrew Davis (joined by Creative Consultant Renée Fleming) announced today that the company’s 2017-2018 season will offer a winning combination of uninspired repertoire and soporific casting. Here’s just a taste: New Production Faust by Charles Gounod Faust: Benjamin Bernheim Marguerite: Erin Wall / Ana María Martínez Méphistophélès: Christian Van Horn Valentin: Edward Parks Siébel: Annie Rosen Marthe: Jill Grove Conductor: Emmanuel Villaume Director: Kevin Newbury The whole dismal tale unfolds below. Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2017/18 Season New Coproduction (featuring The Joffrey Ballet) Orphée et Eurydice by Christoph Gluck (1714 – 1787) Seven performances, Sept. 23 – Oct. 15, 2017 In French with projected English translations One of the most influential works in the history of opera, Orfeo edEurydice (1762) – presented at Lyric in its original […]
2016-04-03 22:21:20
Bohuslav Martinu Trios
I have for you today an interesting collection of the complete piano trios by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu. Piano Trio No. 1 ‘Cinq pièces brèves’, H. 193 Piano Trio No. 2 in D minor, H327 Bergerettes – Five Pieces for Violin, Cello and Piano Piano Trio No. 3 in C major, H332 Performed by the Smetana Trio: Jitka Čechová (piano), Jiří Vodička (violin) & Jan Páleníček (cello) This complete set of Bohuslav Martinů’s piano trios offers a fascinating insight into the constant transformations of his musical style from the early 1930’s to the 1950’s. The first five-movement trio, Cinq pièces brèves (1930), was written in a very carefree manner. The second trio, Bergerettes, comes across as surprisingly light-hearted, given the time of its composition – in February 1939, a month prior to the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia and half a year before the outbreak of World War II […]
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