Jan Klusak - Inventions Nos 1-10
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Label: Supraphon
Cat No: SU41632
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Release Date: 21st April 2014
Contents
Works
DreamsInvention no.2 for chamber orchestra
Invention no.3 for string instruments
Invention no.4 for Orchestra 'Lair'
Invention no.5 for wind quintet 'A Game of Chess'
Invention no.6 for nonet
Invention no.7 for orchestra
Invention no.8 for small orchestra 'Quadratura circuli'
Invention no.9 for contralto, male choir and orchestra 'In the Autumn'
Invention no.10 for orchestra 'Tetragrammaton sive Nomina Eius'
Artists
Chamber Harmonia OrchestraAgon
Czech Nonet
Brno State Philharmonic Orchestra
PKF – Prague Philharmonia
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductors
Libor PesekPetr Kofron
Petr Vronsky
Tomas Hanus
Ondrej Lenard
Works
DreamsInvention no.2 for chamber orchestra
Invention no.3 for string instruments
Invention no.4 for Orchestra 'Lair'
Invention no.5 for wind quintet 'A Game of Chess'
Invention no.6 for nonet
Invention no.7 for orchestra
Invention no.8 for small orchestra 'Quadratura circuli'
Invention no.9 for contralto, male choir and orchestra 'In the Autumn'
Invention no.10 for orchestra 'Tetragrammaton sive Nomina Eius'
Artists
Chamber Harmonia OrchestraAgon
Czech Nonet
Brno State Philharmonic Orchestra
PKF – Prague Philharmonia
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductors
Libor PesekPetr Kofron
Petr Vronsky
Tomas Hanus
Ondrej Lenard
About
At home, the name of Jan Klusák (as an actor and composer) is most frequently connected with cult Czech films and the Jára Cimrman Theatre. Yet he is also the creator of remarkable and singular music. A pupil of Jaroslav Rídký and Pavel Borkovec, he was among the first Czechs – the Communist regime’s resistance notwithstanding – to embrace the techniques of the Second Viennese School, New Music, dodecaphony and serialism.
The presented set of 'Inventions' shows the ground Klusák has covered over the more than half a century since the first of them was completed (1961). “I denominated my form using the term known from J S Bach – invention, always the term for the form with a single musical idea... Only considerably later did I notice that since my first compositional attempts I have sought a musical form with a single theme, hence my strong interest in the fugue. Invention granted me the experience of feeling happy with the origination of a superpersonal order. Roman Berger said the following unforgettable words about the Seventh Invention ‘...clouds racking on the sky...’: I would consider myself fortunate indeed if clouds racking on the sky were left after me in the world.”
Jan Klusák’s 'Inventions' – half a century of spirited seeking of formal perfection.
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