Borkovec/Eben/Slavicky Works for Piano & Orchestra
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Composer or Director: Petr Eben, Klement Slavický, Pavel Borkovec
Label: Panton
Magazine Review Date: 6/2000
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 72
Mastering:
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Catalogue Number: 819018-2

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 |
Pavel Borkovec, Composer
Antonín Jemelík, Piano Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Karel Ancerl, Conductor Pavel Borkovec, Composer |
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra |
Petr Eben, Composer
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Frantisek Rauch, Piano Karel Ancerl, Conductor Petr Eben, Composer |
Rhapsodic Variations |
Klement Slavický, Composer
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Karel Ancerl, Conductor Klement Slavický, Composer |
Author: Tim Parry
<These three Czech works, composed between 1949 and 1961, combine unsentimentality and rhythmic volatility with a distinctive national voice. Pavel Borkovec was a pupil of Suk, and his Second Piano Concerto is often driven and percussive, although there is a strong lyrical vein too. The Moravian composer Klement Slavický builds on a theme of Moravian folk characteristics in his impressive and varied Rhapsodic Variations for orchestra, tracing the structural outline of a traditional four-movement symphony. The Piano Concerto of Petr Eben, a pupil of Borkovec, is a more brittle and aggressive work. All three performances are vivid and committed, especially Antonin Jemelik's commanding account of the Borkovec.
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