NEW WORKS BY CZECH CONTEMPORARY MUSIC COMPOSERS

Jindrich Feld
Concerto for Viola and Orchestra

Concerto for Viola and Orchestra was written in the years 2003-2004. It was first performed in Dijon, France (Grand Auditorium) on 7 February 2007 (Raphaël Oleg - viola, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, cond. Vladimír Válek). The work was instigated by the composer's friend of many years, musicologist Pierre-E. Barbier, to whom the work is also dedicated. According to the composer, the chief aim of this approximately half-hour composition, which is arranged into three movements, is not a technical display, but the application of a whole range of expressive qualities in both the solo instrument and the symphony orchestra. The composer considered this piece as his most important concertante work.

H 7987 piano reduction, ISMN 979-0-2601-0419-8, 56/20 pages, price 29,95 EUR  BUY

Miroslav Kubicka
Dialogues for String Quintet

Dialogues for two violins, two violas and violoncello was written during the years 1982-1984 for the Kocian Quartet and viola player Jan Peruska. The composer stated the following about the work: "This two-movement piece flows in a single current, even though it is clearly separated into a slow and fast part. While I was writing it, I entertained the notion of a dialogue between four people, who are joined by a fifth person who tries to involve himself in the conversation: from the solo entry and the calm and also agitated conversation, to the solo before the close of the piece, when he appears to leave. The coda is an echo of the heated dialogue of the second part, which intensifies and is left open-ended, with the idea that a similar conversation could resume at any time."

H 7923, ISMN 979-0-2601-0438-9, 24/8/4/4/4/4 pages, price 19,95 EUR    BUY

Ondrej Kukal           
Present – Duo for Violin and Violoncello

Duo for Violin and Violoncello, Op. 12, attributed the title "Present", was written in 1992. The composer dedicated this short composition to his colleagues from the New Vlach Quartet, Jana Vlachová and Mikael Ericsson, who also premiered the work in 1993.

H 7964, ISMN 979-0-2601-0367-2, 20/12/12 pages, price 17,95 EUR    BUY

Ondrej Kukal                                  
String Quartet

The single-movement String Quartet, Op. 9, was written in 1988 and it won an award in the Generace composers' competition a year later. The work was written under the impression of the composer's encounter with Josef Vlach and the inspirational environment created by the New Vlach Quartet, who also premiered the work in 1991.

H 7958, ISMN 979-0-2601-0433-4, 44/12/12/12/12 pages, price 36,50 EUR    BUY