Adventurous outings in Prague at Contempuls festival

By Frank Kuznik, 05 December 2019

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“long, lingering chords and endless repeating phrases fell like drips from a faucet”

Reviewed at DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague on 1 December 2019

Aperghis, Trio für Klarinette, Violoncello und Klavier

Rataj, Interludium - Origin's Ichor (World premiere)

Mundry, Sounds, Archeologies

Works by Ratkje

Bauck, Vela

Sørensen, De fire årstider (The Four Seasons) (excerpt)

Smolka, Before the Law

Kondo, Slight Rhythmics

Mrkvička, For Piano, Part K

Kondo, Interlude

Feldman, Palais de mari

Trio Catch

Boglárka Pecze, Clarinet

Eva Boesch, Cello

Sun-Young Nam, Piano

Poing

Håkon Thelin, Double Bass

Rolf-Erik Nystrøm, Saxophone

Frode Halti, Accordion

Ensemble Ascolta

Du burlesque au spirituel, d'Aperghis à Adámek : un samedi à Présences

Chloë Rouge, 7th February

La journée du 7 février au Festival Présences a eu son lot de belles réussites, du « cabaret de bas étage » qu'est Tingel Tangel selon Aperghis à la création française captivante de Where are you? d’Ondřej Adámek.

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Du burlesque au spirituel, d'Aperghis à Adámek : un samedi à Présences

Chloë Rouge, 7th February

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Sounds of the contemporary from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester

Elena Luporini, 21st January

Closing the 26th edition of the Ultraschall Berlin festival, André de Ridden and the DSO prove the vitality of the contemporary orchestra with a programme featuring works by Streich, Chin and Andre.

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Intended and unintended images in Oslo

Aksel Tollåli, 12th January

Conductor Han-Na Chang and the Oslo Philharmonic impressed with a fiercely fast overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila and an exciting new piece by Norwegian composer Jan Erik Mikalsen.

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Intended and unintended images in Oslo

Aksel Tollåli, 12th January

Conductor Han-Na Chang and the Oslo Philharmonic impressed with a fiercely fast overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila and an exciting new piece by Norwegian composer Jan Erik Mikalsen.

***11

Turangalîla underwhelms at the Southbank’s Multitudes festival

Roy Westbrook, 23rd April

Serious music ill-matched by filmic limitations as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra tackles Messiaen’s epic “symphony” as part of the Southbank’s cross-genre festival.

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Frank Kuznik

Frank Kuznik is the former Editor-in-Chief and Culture Editor of The Prague Post, Central Europe’s premier English-language weekly newspaper. He currently divides his time between Prague and his hometown in the US, Cleveland, where he covers northeast Ohio's dynamic classical music scene. In Prague he is an habitué of the Rudolfinum, National Theater, State Opera and other storied classical music venues, and an unabashed fan of Czech music.