Wydawnictwo: Chandos
Nr katalogowy: CHSA 5081
Nośnik: 1 SACD
Data wydania: wrzesień 2010
EAN: 95115508121
Nr katalogowy: CHSA 5081
Nośnik: 1 SACD
Data wydania: wrzesień 2010
EAN: 95115508121
Suk: Orchestral Works
Chandos - CHSA 5081
Kompozytor
Josef Suk (1874-1935)
Josef Suk (1874-1935)
Utwory na płycie:
- CD01 TK 01 Josef Suk Ripening Op 34 (JSkat 70) (1912 17) Adagio quasi Andanye Tempo I ma pochettino più tranquillo
- CD01 TK 02 Josef Suk Ripening Op 34 (JSkat 70) (1912 17) Poco allegro inquieto e poco rubato Poco allegro con moto
- CD01 TK 03 Josef Suk Ripening Op 34 (JSkat 70) (1912 17) Adagio Animato e grazioso Adagio molto espressivo ed appassionato
- CD01 TK 04 Josef Suk Ripening Op 34 (JSkat 70) (1912 17) Più tranquillo A tempo (quasi Allegro) Poco più animato
- CD01 TK 05 Josef Suk Ripening Op 34 (JSkat 70) (1912 17) Allegro (listesso tempo) Più Animato
- CD01 TK 06 Josef Suk Ripening Op 34 (JSkat 70) (1912 17) A tempo (Tempo di Fuga) Andante con moto e maestoso
- CD01 TK 07 Josef Suk Ripening Op 34 (JSkat 70) (1912 17) Adagio e sempre tranquillo Quasi listesso tempo ma un pochettino più animato (Adagio quasi Andante)
- CD01 TK 08 Josef Suk Symphony No 1 Op 14 (JSkat 40) (1897 99) Allegro ma non troppo Allegro Energico e con fuoco
- CD01 TK 09 Josef Suk Symphony No 1 Op 14 (JSkat 40) (1897 99) Adagio Pochettino più mosso Molto appassionato Tempo I
- CD01 TK 10 Josef Suk Symphony No 1 Op 14 (JSkat 40) (1897 99) Allegro vivace Poco meno mosso Tempo I
- CD01 TK 11 Josef Suk Symphony No 1 Op 14 (JSkat 40) (1897 99) Allegro Allegro con brio Meno mosso e molto largamente
Symphony in E major, Op. 14
Ripening, Op. 34
Ripening, Op. 34
The Czech maestro Jiří Bělohlávek performs works by his countryman Josef Suk, conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with whom he is their Chief Conductor.
As a composer, Josef Suk followed in the tradition of Smetana and Dvořák, the latter of whom was not only his professor at the Prague Conservatory, but also became his father-in-law – Suk married Dvořák’s oldest surviving daughter, Otilie, in 1898, and the death of Dvořák in 1904 and ‘Otilka’ a year later resulted in the composition of one of the composer’s most powerful and deeply felt works, the Asrael Symphony – also recorded by Bělohlávek (CHAN 9640).
Like Novák – another key Dvořák pupil – Suk fully embraced his national background, composing in a late romantic style imbued with his individual approach to impressionism and native folk culture.
Following the success of his Serenade in E flat, Suk wished to take up the challenge of writing a symphony, influenced as he was by the contributions to the genre of his own teacher, and of Brahms. Suk’s First Symphony was actually begun in London in 1897 and completed two years later. This new CD provides an excellent opportunity to hear the rarely recorded early work, with its fresh melodic appeal and inventive orchestration.
Ripening is one of the composer’s masterpieces, a highly colourful and superbly sustained symphonic poem, brilliantly orchestrated, with a chorus making its wordless contribution at the work’s late, emotional highpoint. Suk said of Ripening: ‘I worked on this composition for almost five years. In its very cohesive musical form you will find all degrees of human emotions. In this piece I immerse myself once more into the joys and tragic shadows of life but towards the end I emphasise, in the large fugue, that work is the liberator. After a large and passionate build-up of tension and excitement, towards the end a deep calm arrives in which, however, shimmers a hymn of affirmation and life.’
As a composer, Josef Suk followed in the tradition of Smetana and Dvořák, the latter of whom was not only his professor at the Prague Conservatory, but also became his father-in-law – Suk married Dvořák’s oldest surviving daughter, Otilie, in 1898, and the death of Dvořák in 1904 and ‘Otilka’ a year later resulted in the composition of one of the composer’s most powerful and deeply felt works, the Asrael Symphony – also recorded by Bělohlávek (CHAN 9640).
Like Novák – another key Dvořák pupil – Suk fully embraced his national background, composing in a late romantic style imbued with his individual approach to impressionism and native folk culture.
Following the success of his Serenade in E flat, Suk wished to take up the challenge of writing a symphony, influenced as he was by the contributions to the genre of his own teacher, and of Brahms. Suk’s First Symphony was actually begun in London in 1897 and completed two years later. This new CD provides an excellent opportunity to hear the rarely recorded early work, with its fresh melodic appeal and inventive orchestration.
Ripening is one of the composer’s masterpieces, a highly colourful and superbly sustained symphonic poem, brilliantly orchestrated, with a chorus making its wordless contribution at the work’s late, emotional highpoint. Suk said of Ripening: ‘I worked on this composition for almost five years. In its very cohesive musical form you will find all degrees of human emotions. In this piece I immerse myself once more into the joys and tragic shadows of life but towards the end I emphasise, in the large fugue, that work is the liberator. After a large and passionate build-up of tension and excitement, towards the end a deep calm arrives in which, however, shimmers a hymn of affirmation and life.’