Due Boemi di Praga.Due Boemi di Praga Due Boemi di Praga Yesterday and Today (Stedron, Parsch, Blatny) Due Boemi di Praga: Josef Horak--bass clarinet clarinet, musical wind instrument of cylindrical bore employing a single reed. The clarinet family comprises all single-reed instruments, including the saxophone. The predecessor of the modern clarinet was the simpler chalumeau, which J. C. , Emma Kovarnova--piano; Vaclav Kunt--flute, Rudolf Stastny and Jiri Benes--viola, Bedrich Havlik--violoncello, Frantisek Vlk--percussion, The Jazz Orchestra of Czechoslovak Radio Prague Radio Prague (Czech: Český rozhlas 7 - Radio Praha) is the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic. Radio Prague broadcasts in six languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Czech and Russian. , Lubomir Matl, Pavel Blatny--conductors. Production: not stated. Text: Czech, Eng., Ger. Recorded: Czech Radio Prague, Czech Radio Brno. Released: 2005. TT: 62:38. 1 CD 2000 Forza, s.r.o., Brno 859406296002. This CD of the legendary duo bass clarinettist Josef Horak and pianist Emma Kovarnova, focuses on pieces written specially for them over the almost forty years of the partnership. Although the choice of composers has been further narrowed down to figures linked to Brno, Milos Miloš, prince of Serbia Miloš or Milosh (Miloš Obrenović) (both: mĭ`lôsh ōbrĕ`nəvĭch) Stedron, Arnost Parsch and Pavel Blatny, the range of compositional perspectives is very wide and colourful. Stedron's timbre timbre Quality of sound that distinguishes one instrument, voice, or other sound source from another. Timbre largely results from a characteristic combination of overtones produced by different instruments. Meditation (1963) for solo bass clarinet is paradoxically more modern than Intrada e Sarabande sarabande Stately processional dance in triple metre popular in the French court and throughout Europe in the 17th–18th century. Of Spanish or Mexican origin, it began as a vigorous dance, set to lively music and castanets, for a double line of couples. triste triste adj. Sad; wistful. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin tristis.] triste Adjective Old-fashioned sad [French] (1999) which reflects the composer's long term interest in inspiration from Renaissance and Baroque music Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between approximately 1600 and 1750.[1] This era is said to begin in music after the Renaissance and was followed by the Classical music era. . But be that as at it may, both pieces have the stamp of originality. The first is a gift to the art of the "Paganini of the bass clarinet" and the second combines the historical approach with the contemporary (there are several later versions and arrangements of this piece including an orchestral version--see for example the composer's profile CD Maly koncert pro ovci - A Little Concert for Sheep). Arnost Parsch offers a different view of the combination of bass clarinet and piano in For Josef Horak. Here a tape is added to the two acoustic instruments, in places creating minimalist min·i·mal·ist n. 1. One who advocates a moderate or conservative approach, action, or policy, as in a political or governmental organization. 2. A practitioner of minimalism. adj. 1. passages - entirely in the spirit of the time (1969). Parsch exploits various folksong phenomena in "... ausufernd" as does Stedron (Aksaky). Pavel Blatny's pieces involve another two different angles. His trio of "hits" In E, In A, In D is built on the traditional melodic-harmonic system, which in his text commentary he defines as a matter of the "post-modern" spirit of the 1980s and 1990s. His Uno pezzo per Due (Boemi) is a fusion of jazz and classical (the so called Third Current). Blatny's pieces give the CD a notable shot of melodic relief. It is pleasant to see melody still being used in contemporary music, and in a way that doesn't sound hackneyed. The choice of pieces for Due Boemi di Praga here may be small in terms of quantity, but it is nonetheless a varied genre cross-section of the compositions written specially for the duo or inspired by them over the years. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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