Description
Jan Novák:Concentus biiugis for piano four hands and string orchestra (1977)Concerto for Oboe and Chamber Orchestra (1952) (First Time on CD)Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra (1949) (First Time on CD)
Artists
Alice Rajnohová (Piano)Lucie Schinzelová (Piano)Vilém Veverka (Oboe)Kristýna Znamenáčková (Piano)
Ensemble Opera Diversa (Ensemble)
Gabriela Tardonová (Conductor)
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The music of the Moravian composer Jan Novák (1921–84) – a natural successor to Bohuslav Martinů, with whom he briefly studied – is nothing less than life-enhancing: it has Martinů’s rhythmic charge and his unflagging energy. And although Novák had such difficulties with the authorities in Communist Czechoslovakia that he chose to emigrate, there is an infectious optimism, a joie de vivre, in these three works that is instantly communicative. |
