Time
(Thursday) 19:00
20% for 2 different concerts / 30% for 3 / 40% for 4 / 50% for 5 and more CONCERTS
Event Details
BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ Piano Sonata H 350 JAN NOVÁK Elegantiae tripudiorum (The Elegance of Waltzes) NIKOLAI METNER Tales, Op. 51 SERGEI RACHMANINOFF Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36 Jakub Sládek piano Concert will
Event Details
BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ
Piano Sonata H 350
JAN NOVÁK
Elegantiae tripudiorum (The Elegance of Waltzes)
NIKOLAI METNER
Tales, Op. 51
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36
Jakub Sládek piano
Concert will be recorded by Český rozhlas Vltava. The Euroradio has chosen the upcoming radio recording for its Top Young Performers Series.
All four composers featured in this festival piano recital programme – Bohuslav Martinů, Jan Novák, Nikolai Medtner and Sergei Rachmaninoff – met with a similar émigré fate due to the historical events of the first half of the 20th century. These were not particularly favourable to free artistic expression, whether it was the 1917 revolutions in Russia, World War Two or the February 1948 coup in Czechoslovakia. The programme is bookended by two piano sonatas, Martinů’s only composition of its kind and Rachmaninoff’s second Sonata in B-flat minor. Between these two major 20th-century works for the piano, we will hear two cycles for the instrument penned by younger colleagues and friends of Martinů and Rachmaninoff – Novák and Medtner; these cycles consist of musical miniatures that are largely dance-like in character and poetic in expression. Given the Czech and Russian origins of the composers featured, their friendships and their preference for certain compositional styles, the concert programme could be divided in two parts. The composers are also united by their fondness for the piano. Martinů was virtually unable to compose without access to one, and Novák, Medtner and Rachmaninoff were all outstanding concert pianists. Interestingly, all four found refuge for several years in the United States of America at some point in their lives. Their musical styles show profound affinities with the musical legacies of their homelands, whether this involved elements of musical folklore or drawing on the legacies of the titans of the Czech and Russian national schools in music.
The program can be downloaded here
Location
Besední dům
Komenského náměstí 534/8, Brno
Besední důmKomenského náměstí 534/8, Brno