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Tomas Brauner|Husa: Music for Prague

Husa: Music for Prague

Tomáš Brauner, Prague Symphony Orchestra

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Karel Husa - a Czech-born composer whose name resonates more on an international scale than in his native country : the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Grawemeyer Award (other recipients include Boulez, Adés, Dun and Ligeti), he was commissioned to write music for the New York Philharmonic, and other distinguished orchestras and artists. The centenary of Karel Husa's birth is a unique opportunity to recall his remarkable fate and oeuvre. During World War II, he lived in Nazi-occupied Prague. Following his graduation from the Prague Conservatory, with a concert performed with the Prague Symphony Orchestra (1944), Husa left for Paris to study composition with Arthur Honegger and Nadia Boulanger.

The performance in Prague of his Three Frescoes with the Prague Symphony Orchestra in 1949 made it evident that Husa's music no longer fitted the Communist ideologues' pigeonholes. A domestic critic opined: "Taking lessons from Honegger in Paris has served to worsen rather than improve Husa. His technical proficiency is sufficient, so he should come back home quickly, so as to tune into the pulsation of the local life; otherwise he will get lost beyond recovery in the jungles of decadent obscurity". Yet Husa did not return to his homeland, opting instead to continue his studies abroad. Later on, he settled in the USA.

When it comes to the Warsaw Pact armies' invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968, he got to hear about it on Detroit Radio. Husa expressed his dismay in Music for Prague 1968. The piece contains a quotation of the 15th-century Hussite war song Ktož jsú Boží bojovníci, by which the composer also referenced Václav Talich's emotional performance of Bedřich Smetana's My Country in Nazi-occupied Prague. Husa could only begin freely visiting his beloved Prague in the wake of the November 1989 Revolution, yet he pointed out that he kept strolling the city streets in his dreams and works.

The present album maps Husa's creative periods between 1947 and 1983, and it features the very first studio recording of his Three Frescoes. Conducted by Tomáš Brauner, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, closely connected with both Karel Husa and Prague, made the recordings at the Smetana Hall of the Municipal House in Prague. © Supraphon

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Symphony No. 2 (Karel Husa)

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I. Moderato
00:07:18

Prague Symphony Orchestra - Tomas Brauner, Conductor - Karel Husa, Composer

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II. Very fast
00:05:00

Prague Symphony Orchestra - Tomas Brauner, Conductor - Karel Husa, Composer

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III. Slow
00:06:30

Prague Symphony Orchestra - Tomas Brauner, Conductor - Karel Husa, Composer

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Trois fresques (Karel Husa)

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I. Praeludium. Moderato molto - Allegro risoluto - Tempo I
00:09:39

Prague Symphony Orchestra - Tomas Brauner, Conductor - Karel Husa, Composer

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II. Aria. Moderato - Tranquillo
00:06:48

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III. Fuga. Moderato molto - Un poco piu vivo - Allegro con fuoco
00:08:49

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Music for Prague 1968 (Karel Husa)

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I. Introduction and Fanfare
00:06:04

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II. Aria
00:05:43

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III. Interlude
00:04:22

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IV. Toccata and chorale
00:07:54

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Karel Husa - a Czech-born composer whose name resonates more on an international scale than in his native country : the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Grawemeyer Award (other recipients include Boulez, Adés, Dun and Ligeti), he was commissioned to write music for the New York Philharmonic, and other distinguished orchestras and artists. The centenary of Karel Husa's birth is a unique opportunity to recall his remarkable fate and oeuvre. During World War II, he lived in Nazi-occupied Prague. Following his graduation from the Prague Conservatory, with a concert performed with the Prague Symphony Orchestra (1944), Husa left for Paris to study composition with Arthur Honegger and Nadia Boulanger.

The performance in Prague of his Three Frescoes with the Prague Symphony Orchestra in 1949 made it evident that Husa's music no longer fitted the Communist ideologues' pigeonholes. A domestic critic opined: "Taking lessons from Honegger in Paris has served to worsen rather than improve Husa. His technical proficiency is sufficient, so he should come back home quickly, so as to tune into the pulsation of the local life; otherwise he will get lost beyond recovery in the jungles of decadent obscurity". Yet Husa did not return to his homeland, opting instead to continue his studies abroad. Later on, he settled in the USA.

When it comes to the Warsaw Pact armies' invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968, he got to hear about it on Detroit Radio. Husa expressed his dismay in Music for Prague 1968. The piece contains a quotation of the 15th-century Hussite war song Ktož jsú Boží bojovníci, by which the composer also referenced Václav Talich's emotional performance of Bedřich Smetana's My Country in Nazi-occupied Prague. Husa could only begin freely visiting his beloved Prague in the wake of the November 1989 Revolution, yet he pointed out that he kept strolling the city streets in his dreams and works.

The present album maps Husa's creative periods between 1947 and 1983, and it features the very first studio recording of his Three Frescoes. Conducted by Tomáš Brauner, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, closely connected with both Karel Husa and Prague, made the recordings at the Smetana Hall of the Municipal House in Prague. © Supraphon

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