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THE BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ FOUNDATION THE BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ INSTITUTE THE INTERNATIONAL MARTINŮ CIRCLE GREEK PASSION IN PALERMO AUTOGRAPHS FROM MAY—AUGUST 2011 VOL.XI NO.2 ALPHONSE LEDUC IN PARIS MARTINŮ VOICES NEW PUBLICATIONS & CDs EVENTS NEW CDs ERNEST ANSERMET contents COLLECTION Martinů: Symphony No. 4, H. 305 Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, 3 highlights / events Ernest Ansermet (Conductor) Recorded on 15 March 1976 RSR Geneve 4 incircle news Cascavelle VEL 3127, 2011 6 review Palermo. The Ascension of Manolios the Shepherd RUDOLF ROUČEK 8 research Bohuslav Martinů Autographs BEETHOVEN, SMETANA, from Alphonse Leduc in Paris MARTINŮ ALEŠ BŘEZINA Sinfonietta La Jolla, H. 328 Laureates’ Concert Czech Chamber Philharmonic at the Prague Spring Orchestra Pardubice Tomoko Asahina (Piano), 10 Marko Ivanović (Conductor) news A Martinů Portrait – In Tel Aviv! Recorded 2010 / ARCODIVA, UP 0136-2131, 2010 Veronique & Igor Firkušný visit the Bohuslav Martinů Institute 11 special series List of Martinů’s Works XII MARTINŮ 12 interview Chamber Music with Flute Martinů for Voices – Interview Sonata for Flute, Violin and Piano, H. 254 with the Choirmaster Lukáš Vasilek Sonata for Flute and Piano, H. 306 Sextet for Piano and Woodwinds, H. 174 14 review Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano, H. 300 The Six Symphonies/Jiří Bělohlávek Fenwick Smith (Flute), Sally Pinkas (Piano), ONYX John Ferrillo (Oboe), Thomas Martin (Clarinet), 15 memoirs Richard Ranti, Suzanne Nelson (Bassons), Geraldine Mucha Haldan Martinson (Violin), Rhonda Ryer (Cello) 16 obituaries Recorded 2002–2007 / Jan Kapusta, Dietfried Bernet, Naxos 8.572467, 2010 Josef Suk 18 events 19 new publications / cd events highlights (FESTIVALS) BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ DAYS 2011 17th MARTINŮ FESTTAGE 2011 13 November—26 November 4 December 2011 / Martinů Hall / Academy of Performing Arts in Prague / Basel, Switzerland Malostranské nám. 13 / Prague www.martinu.ch Concert of Prize-Winners Artistic Director: Robert Kolínský from the 2011 Martinů Foundation Competition in the Category of Piano Titular Patronage: Didier Burkhalter – Federal Councillor, Václav Havel – Ex-President 7 December 2011 / Martinů Hall / HAMU / Malostranské nám. 13 / Prague of the Czech Republic, Josef Suk †, Violinist th Concert to the 5 Anniversary of Viktor Kalabis’ Death 13 November 2011 Piano recital – Jiří Kollert > the bird’s eye jazz club KALABIS Allegro impetuoso for Piano / Three Polkas for Piano / III. Sonata, Op. 57 Opening concert – JAZZ MARTINŮ Butterflies and Birds of Paradise, H. 127 «Marti-new» Rolf Zielke (Piano) / Three Czech Dances H. 154 / Sonata, H. 350 Stephan Braun (Cello) Stephan Abel (Saxophone) 21 & 22 December 2011 / Dvořák Hall / Rudolfinum / Alšovo nábřeží 12 / Prague Adaptions of works by Bohuslav Martinů CZECH PHILHARMONIC CONCERT and Georg Friedrich Händel BEETHOVEN Concert for Piano & Orchestra No.5 E flat major op.73 “Emperor” 16 November 2011 MARTINŮ Intermezzo, H. 330 > Museum Tinguely TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker, Suite from the Ballet Family concert «MARTINŮ, the sounding biography» > Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Piers Lane (Piano), Concept and direction: Bernhard Dittmann Petr Altrichter (Conductor) ac Narrator: Kurt Aeschbacher Musicians: Price winner of the musical schools www.ceskafilharmonie.cz / www.martinu.cz Basel-Land 20 November 2011 > Stadtcasino Basel, Festsaal Chamber concert INTERNATIONAL MARTINŮ CIRCLE Sept arabesques – études rythmiques BOARD MEETING & CONCERT IMC NEWS pour violoncello et piano, H. 201 Nocturnes – four etudes for violoncello 15 October 2011 / beginning of the concert at 3 pm / IMC / Bořanovická 14 / Prague 8 and piano, H. 189 STAMITZ Trio Sonata in F Major, Op. 5 No. 4 for Oboe, Clarinet, Basoon and Piano Variations on a Theme of Rossini for cello an piano, H. 290 MARTINŮ Two Songs, H. 213bis / Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano, H. 356 Hélène Grimaud (Piano) / Madrigals Nos 2 and 3 for Oboe, Clarinet, Basoon, H. 266 Jens-Peter Maintz (Cello) KŘIČKA Albatros and U skandinávských skal from Northern Nights, op. 14 Introduction: Prof. Giselher Schubert GRETHEN Three on a Rerun for Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon 22 November 2011 > In modo camerale (IMC members) – Daniel Wiesner (Piano), Jana Brožková (Oboe), > Stadtkino Basel Ludmila Peterková (Clarinet), Jaroslav Kubita (Bassoon) Cinema «KEEP THE BEAT!» Eva Garajová (IMC member) – Mezzo-soprano Documentary film about the educational project The concert is sponsored by Mr. Geoffrey Piper of MusicEnterprise, Luxembourg, member of the IMC “Špalíček” directed by Olga Sommerová with a choreography from Eva Blažíčková SCREENING of the documentary Drž rytmus! (Keep the Beat!) (with German subtitles) educational project “Špalíček” by Olga Sommerová 26 November 2011 > Martinskirche CZECH PHILHARMONIC CONCERT Final concert – orchestra 13+14 October 2011 / 7.30 pm Intermezzo, H. 330 Dvořák Hall / Rudolfinum / Alšovo nábřeží 12 / Prague Concerto for Cello and orchestra No. 1, H. 196 III MARTINŮ Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen “Incantation”, H. 358 ef Heinrich Schiff (Conductor) > Igor Ardašev (Piano), Eliahu Inbal (Conductor) Christian Poltéra (Cello) martinůrevue22011 | 3 which included works by Biber and Zelenka. i Flautisti will be giving concerts in Austria, Switzer - land and the Czech Republic during the summer and will be returning to the UK to participate in the Leamington Music programme on 12–14 October. incirclenews THE NAXOS CD (8.572588) of first recordings of Martinů’s unpublished early songs has now been released. The performances by Jana Wallinge rová ) INTERNATIONAL and Giorgio Koukl are splendid with recorded sound to match. Giorgio Koukl deserves the highest MARTINŲ CIRCLE NEWS praise for his endeavours in getting these songs / GREGORY TERIAN performed and recorded for our enjoyment. (It has been brought to my attention that apart THE ONYX ALBUM of the six Martinů symphonies from many typographical errors, especially in the as performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra Czech texts, and inaccuracies over the accreditation of conducted by Jiří Bělohlávek is now available i Flautisti Karel Janovický’s translations, the CD label and notes (ONYX 4061). Those who attended the Barbican wrongly list the order in which song no. 30 appears con certs or heard the Radio 3 broadcasts from H. 365. One of the performers on that disc, Danielle on the disc. Hopefully Naxos will quickly rectify these which these recordings are derived will need no Jalowiecka, has since joined with Kerstin Kubitschek, faults via their related website.) reminding of the exceptional quality of the per form - Jitka Smutná and Ilona Veselovská – friends from ances secured by Bělohlávek. They include his their student days at the Royal College of Music – first recording of the Symphony No. 2. Bělohlávek’s to form i Flautisti – the London Recorder Quartet. ON 27 SEPTEMBER 2011 Second Movement Opera Martinů goes from strength to strength and the BBC They have already achieved critical acclaim with will be staging a concert at the Grosvenor Chapel, Symphony Orchestra makes an ideal partner in this successful appearances at the Brighton Festival, London W.1. The programme will include Martinů’s enterprise. This set will surely stand as the bench - Grassington, St Martins-in-the-Fields and on BBC Opening of the Springs, H. 354 con ducted by mark for future aspirants. The three discs come Radio 3. Nicholas Howard and the String Quartet No. 3, in a handsome folding album and include a booklet They gave a very enjoyable concert at the Czech H. 183 performed by the Germini ani Quartet. The with notes by our member Michael Crump, author Embassy in London on 23 June 2011. In a varied and concert is being given to promote the forthcoming of the highly praised Martinů and the Symphony entertaining programme, they included another Olympic commission Zatopek!, the mini opera com - recently published by Toccata Press. The CD trans - performance of the Martinů work which continues posed by Emily Howard which will be receiving its fers have been expertly done. Audience applause to delight audiences. Danielle was joined by Jitka world pre miere in Liverpool on 15 June 2012. The has been edited out. Onyx has a facebook page and in that performance. The major event of the evening keenly anticipated Second Movement production of would welcome any comments posted. was the world premiere of a three movement Martinů’s The Three Wishes, H. 175 will follow in Quartet for Recorders specially composed for the November 2012. The venue will be a working film group by Karel Janovický. This engaging work fully studio in East London. One cannot imagine a more MEMBERS MAY RECALL the Martinů Foundation exploits the technical brilliance and youthful élan appropriate setting for the British premiere of this 2007 CD which included the world premiere record - of the players. It received an enthusiastic reception innovative film-opera. (More information from ing of the Martinů Divertimento for two recorders, from the audience, as did the entire programme, [email protected]) ) BLANCHE HONEGGER MOYSE / 1909–2011 WE WERE SADDENED TO LEARN of the death of the Concerto, recounting: “I remember saying to Blanche Honegger Moyse on 15 February at the Martinů after the first performance that he had age of 101. She was the last survivor of the group not given the violin enough to do. So he added of Martinů’s friends from the time of his stay in a cadenza which was very difficult! – as was every - Paris in the 1930s. thing he wrote.” Born in Geneva in 1909, Blanche began her violin The Moyse family left Europe after the war and studies at the age of eight. She became a protégé of eventually settled in Vermont. In 1951 they joined Adolf Busch, the eminent violinist of the inter-war with Adolf and Herman Busch and Rudolf Serkin to years. During her early concert career Blanche also establish the Marlboro Festival which continues to came to know the legendary flautist Marcel Moyse. flourish to this day. The music of Martinů featured When she moved to Paris to continue her studies, prominently in the Festival programmes.
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    18 3_ Vítězslav Mikeš IGLOO Sound Gallery 1968 in Czech Music Jan Bedřich Kittl 1188 3_ czech music quarterly DEAR READERS, CONTENTS: In this issue, we celebrate the contemporary CONTEXTS APPEAR GRADUALLY achievements of musicologist Vítězslav VÍTĚZSLAV MIKEŠ ON CONTEMPORARY MUSIC Mikeš, who received a state honour for his AND CZECH-LITHUANIAN RELATIONSHIPS promotion of Lithuanian music, and explore by Matěj Kratochvíl the activities of IGLOO at the Vysočina _ page 2 Regional Gallery in Jihlava, which has now presented ten exhibitions in the only “MAY PEACE REMAIN WITH THIS LAND…” sound-focused gallery space in the Czech HOW CZECH MUSIC REACTED TO THE EVENTS OF 1968 Republic. We return to previous centuries by Vlasta Reittererová in Vlasta Reitererová's refl ection on the _ page 8 musical context of 1968, the year of the Soviet occupation, and in a period biography A TALE OF MUSIC FESTIVALS, MONEY, AND REDEMPTION of composer Johann Friedrich Kittl, AN INTERVIEW WITH THOMAS SOVÍK translated into English for the fi rst time by Vilém Spilka by Tom Moore. All in all, this is another _ page 14 issue packed with a startling variety of Czech music. It is also my honour for the fi rst time VÍTĚZSLAVA KAPRÁLOVÁ : TALES OF A SMALL FLUTE to greet you from these pages as deputy by Lukáš M. Vytlačil editor-in-chief. _ page 18 May I wish you an inspirational musical autumn. SOUND IN THE GALLERY Ian Mikyska NOTES ON THE IGLOO SOUND GALLERY IN JIHLAVA by Lenka Dolanová _ page 19 CZECH MUSIC EVERY DAY EVENTS AT HOME AND ABROAD IN THE SUMMER OF 2018 by Barbora Vacková _ page 24 JOHANN FRIEDRICH KITTL: THE EARLIEST BIOGRAPHY by Tom Moore _ page 26 REVIEWS _ page 37 Czech Music Quarterly is issued ISSN 1211-0264 (Print), ISSN 1804-0586 (Online) by the Czech Music Information Centre MK ČR E 7099 with support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the Czech Music Fund.
  • Reception of Josef Suk's Orchestral Works

    Reception of Josef Suk's Orchestral Works

    Jan Charypar: Reception of Josef Suk’s Orchestral Works (from Young Musicology Prague Conference, September 2016) I am going to speak about the reception of the orchestral works by Josef Suk, the pupil and son-in- law of Antonín Dvořák. At first, I will shortly describe the progression of Suk’s work, and then I will speak about the critical reflections of Suk’s orchestral works during his lifetime. Then I will focus on the problems of reception of Suk’s later works, and I will conclude with the issues of the reception of Suk’s orchestral works after his death, the reception abroad, and the contemporary situation. Suk’s works are divided into two periods which are stylistically very different, and consequently, their reception is different, too. It is generaly known that in the first period, Suk follows Antonín Dvořák. Of course, it’s a simplification, because although there was an obvious Dvořák’s influence in Suk’s early style, Suk´s way of composition was in many respects different. Suk is usually, and I think rightly, characterized as essentially lyrical composer with extraordinary sense of orchestral colours. After his well-known Serenade for Strings, it was particularly the incidental music to Julius Zeyer’s plays Radúz and Mahulena and Under the Apple Tree, which determined the specific nature and lyricism of Suk´s music. The second period of his work began at the time of death of Antonín Dvořák and Suk’s wife Otilie one year later. These tragic events in Suk’s family influenced deeply the nature and content of his music.