Ancerl Gold Edition Vols. 43-46
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Label: Supraphon
Cat No: SU39442
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 4
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 12th May 2008
Contents
Works
Symphony no.2 for large orchestraThe Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34
Build your country, strengthen peace (Cantata)
Piano Concerto
Four Seasons
Ondras: ballet music
Piano Concerto no.3 in G major
Violin Concerto no.1, op.17
The Nightingale and the Rose, symphonic fairy-tale, op.81
In the Soviet Land (cantata)
Oboe Concerto no.2
Artists
Eric Shilling (narrator)Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Karel AncerlWorks
Symphony no.2 for large orchestraThe Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op.34
Build your country, strengthen peace (Cantata)
Piano Concerto
Four Seasons
Ondras: ballet music
Piano Concerto no.3 in G major
Violin Concerto no.1, op.17
The Nightingale and the Rose, symphonic fairy-tale, op.81
In the Soviet Land (cantata)
Oboe Concerto no.2
Artists
Eric Shilling (narrator)Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Karel AncerlAbout
The set bears unprecedented witness to the 1950s and 1960s, the period when the Communist powers that be decided on taste and composition trends, and when the criterion for acceptance or rejection of a work was its “mass appeal” and the degree of consonance with the “Socialist Realism” style.
The excellent Czech Philharmonic Orchestra with its internationally sought-after conductor is here involuntarily in the services of propagandist kitsch (Dobiáš’s cantata “Build Up Your Country to Reinforce the Peace”, Kapr’s panegyric cantata “In the Soviet Country”). However, concurrently originating were also a number of recordings of remarkable works by composers who were able to withstand ideological pressures.
Alongside folklore inspiration (evident, for example, in the ballet “Ondráš” by Ilja Hurník and Seidl’s oboe concerto), neoclassical influences and “genetic” linkages to the work of Janáček, Dvořák, Suk and Novák were still palpable, while also present was the seeking of a singular and contemporary musical language (Eben, Bořkovec, Kalabis).
Paradoxically, today’s young composers could envy their counterparts of half a century ago – many a time their compositions experienced paramount concert performance and recordings within a short time of the last note drying out in the score.
Contents:
CD 1:
Britten: The Young Person´s Guide to the Orchestra – Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Purcell, Op.34 (1946) with English text read by Eric Shilling
Hurník: The Four Seasons (1954)
Ondráš: Music for ballet (1956)
CD 2:
Dobiáš: Build your country, strengthen peace (Buduj vlast, posílíš mír). Cantata based on the text by F. Halas (1950)
Kapr: In the Soviet Land (V sovětské zemi). Cantata (1951)
Kalaš: The Nightingale and the Rose (Slavík a růže). Symphonic poem based on the fairy tale by O. Wild (1956)
CD 3:
Viktor Kalabis: Violin Concerto (1962)
Seidl: Oboe Concerto (1956)
Jirko: Piano Concerto No.3 (1961)
CD 4:
Eben: Piano Concerto (1963)
Bořkovec: Symphony No.2 (1957)
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