Conductor: Zdeněk Mácal Soloist: Sabine Meyer – clarinet Otmar Mácha: Variations on a Theme and Death of Jan Rychlik – Hungarian première Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F minor, op. 73 Mussorgsky–Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition Zdeněk Mácal was born in 1936 and studied in his native Brno Conservatoire and the Janáček Academy of Music. After the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, he emigrated and over the past few decades, has conducted over 160 orchestras on four continents. Whe...n he returned to his native land in 1996, it was a true sensation as he conducted the Czech Philharmonic once again. He later became the principal conductor. Czech composer Otmar Mácha lived between 1922 and 2006 and he decided to mark the memory of his friend, avant-garde composer Jan Rychlik who died at the age of forty-seven, with an orchestral work based on one of his flute pieces. Composed in 1964, this music is both stunning and moving. Carl Maria von Weber is primarily known these days as an opera composer but he also wrote concertos, such as this one for clarinet, which is still frequently performed and truly shows the versatility of the instrument. The Clarinet Concerto in F minor was commissioned by the King of Bavaria Max Joseph and its soloist Sabine Meyer is one of the supreme modern exponents of the instrument. She is much in demand as a guest soloist with major orchestras not only in Europe, but on the American continent, in Japan and at major festivals. Modest Mussorgsky originally named his set of piano pieces, which later became known as Pictures at an Exhibition as Hartmann. Written in just twenty days, the cycle is a tribute to the composer’s friend Viktor Hartmann, the architect, painter and sculptor who died tragically young. Maurice Ravel orchestrated the piece in 1922 to a commission from Serge Koussevitzky, which brought it to a much wider audience.
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