The Days of Contemporary Music festival whose 31rd year planned for November 2020 had to be cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, made recordings of a part of the original programme and shared them on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_CSoaQmsosVrvNzOjA4FO2Cw0R8EFgH3 . The recorded pieces include several premieres: Jan BERAN: Als welkten in den Himmeln ferne Gärten inspired by … Read more
6 November 2019, Gallery, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague Days of Contemporary Music Tomáš Svoboda: Charms for Harp. A selection from a cycle of 40 short pieces (world premiere) Hedvika Mousa Bacha – harp Jaroslav Šaroun: Su la cetra amorosa (world premiere) Lucie Laubová – soprano, Jaroslav Šaroun – piano Ivo Bláha: Levitation for violin … Read more
The penultimate concert of the 7th International Music Festival of F. L. Věk was dedicated to Czech songs. They were performed on October 22 in the palace of Nové Město nad Metují by the legendary Czech bass Richard Novák and pianist Jaroslav Šaroun. A part of the concert was a world premiere of Psalm Songs by … Read more
Three concerts took place during the fourth week of the Days of Contemporary Music festival. All of them were held at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague with fifteen of the twenty pieces presented enjoying their world premiere. The program on November 21 consisted exclusively of chamber music. Pallets and Shading by Jiří Bezděk … Read more
