Ars Rediviva

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Ars Rediviva was a Czech chamber music ensemble that gave a decisive impetus to the rediscovery of baroque music in its country and dedicated itself to questions of historical performance practice .

Emergence

It was founded in 1951 by the flautist and musicologist Milan Munclinger and his wife, the pianist and harpsichordist Viktorie Švihlíková . Two soloists from the Czech Philharmonic played in the basic line-up : Stanislav Duchoň ( oboe ) and František Sláma ( cello ). Later the violinists Václav Snítil and Antonín Novák, as well as the harpsichordists Josef Hála and Giedrė Lukšaitė-Mrázková took part.

In the years 1951–1956 Ars Rediviva worked with Munclinger's teacher, the conductor Václav Talich .

Orchestra Ars Rediviva, soloists

In line with the repertoire , the line-up was expanded to include a chamber orchestra , in which mainly the soloists of the Czech Philharmonic took part: flautists Géza Novák, František Čech, Jiří Válek, oboists Jiří Mihule, František Kimel, bassoonists Karel Miroslav Biderman, and horn players, among others Štefek, Zdeněk Tylšar, the double bass player František Pošta .

Ars Rediviva also worked with the Philharmonic vocal choir as well as with other Czech ensembles (for example the Vlach Quartet ), singers ( Karel Berman , Ladislav Mráz , Jana Jonášová , Virginia Walterová, Ludmila Vernerová and others) and foreign soloists who dedicated themselves to baroque music (for example András Adorján (flautist) , Theo Altmeyer , Maurice André , Nedda Casei , Otto Peter ). The collaboration with Jean-Pierre Rampal (1954–1984) had a long tradition .

Ars Rediviva concert cycle

1954-1994, the ensemble gave subscription concerts, beginning in Prague Wallenstein Palace , later in the Dvořák Hall of the Rudolfinum . The series of six concert evenings was then followed by reprises. Up to 1994 several hundred compositions were performed here, with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach in the foreground. New performances of archival finds were an integral part of the Ars Rediviva subscription series. The concerts were accompanied by Munclinger's commentary, which often had not only the music itself, but also some current topics. Many premieres and the unconventional form of the concerts won the subscription cycle a wide audience.

Some recordings of the concerts are kept in the Czech Museum of Music .

Recordings

Ars Rediviva was the first Czechoslovak ensemble to record numerous baroque works (e.g. Johann Sebastian Bach : Brandenburg Concerts , The Art of Fugue , Musical Offering , orchestral suites , chamber music, cantatas; Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach : symphonies, concerts, chamber music, cantatas; Wilhelm Friedemann Bach : Symphonies, chamber music works; Johann Christian Bach : symphonies, chamber music, Georg Friedrich Handel : fireworks music , water music , instrumental chamber music, cantatas, nine German arias ; Georg Philipp Telemann : orchestral suites, symphonies, concerts, table music , nouveaux quatuors , essercizii music , moral Cantatas , The Harmonious Service ; Heinrich Schütz : Christmas Oratorio ; François Couperin : Trio Sonatas , Le Parnasse ou l'apothéose de Corelli , Concert en forme d'apothéose à la mémoire de l'incomparable M. de Lully , Concerts royaux ; Jean-Philippe Rameau : Pièces de clavecin en concert ; Antonio Vivaldi : Staff at mater , trio sonatas, concertos, cantatas; Arcangelo Corelli : chamber music works; Alessandro Scarlatti : cantatas, instrumental chamber music; Franz Benda : Flute Concerts - u. a. Jean-Pierre Rampal's first sound recording in Czechoslovakia, symphonies, sonatas; Georg Anton Benda : harpsichord concerts, symphonies, sonatas, Ariadne auf Naxos , Benda's lament ; Franz Xaver Richter : symphonies, quartets, trio sonatas, concerts; Jan Dismas Zelenka : Trio sonatas - first recording 1959, orchestral works, Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae ).

Since 1954, Ars Rediviva has worked with the Supraphon label , later also with Panton, Columbia Records , CBS , Ariola , DGG , Orfeo , Nippon, Sony Classical as well as with radio, television and film. The recordings have won several awards (two Grand Prix du Disque from the Charles Cros Academy , "Golden Lion" from Supraphon-Verlag for the record of the year, among others).

Composers such as Ilja Hurník , Jan Tausinger, Ivan Jirko, Otmar Mácha have attributed their works to the ensemble (for example Ilja Hurník's Sonata da Camera , Concerto for flute and chamber orchestra ).

literature

  • Jana Vašatová: Filharmonikové v souboru Ars rediviva. ( Philharmonic and Ars Rediviva. ) In: Rudolfinum Revue. I / 1, pp. 33–34, Czech Philharmonic , Prague 2001–2002.
  • František Sláma : Z Herálce do Šangrilá a zase nazpátek. Orego, Říčany 2001, ISBN 80-86117-61-8 .
  • Nicolas Slonimsky: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of 20 th Century Classical Musicians. Schirmer Books, 1997, ISBN 0-02-871271-4 .
  • Alain Pâris: Dictionnaire des interprètes et de l'interprétation musicale au XX siècle. Laffont, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-221-08064-5 .
  • Jaroslav Šeda: Ars rediviva jubilující. ( 40 years of Ars Rediviva. ) In: Koncertní život. ( Concert life. ) 4/5, Symphonic Orchestra FOK, Praha 1992, pp. 12–16.
  • Karel Mlejnek: Hudba barokních mistrů - Ars rediviva. ( Baroque music - Ars Rediviva. ) Czech Chamber Music Association, Prague 1992.
  • Marc Vignal: Larousse de la musique. Volume 1. Larousse, Paris 1982, ISBN 2-03-511303-2 .
  • Tomislav Volek : Ars rediviva a Pražští madrigalisté. ( Ars Rediviva and the Prague Madrigalists. ) In: Hudební rozhledy. ( Musikrevue. ) 31. Association of Czech Composers, Prague 1978, p. 21 and p. 124.
  • Gordana Lazarevich: Reviews of Records. In: Musical Quarterly. 3. Oxford 1977, p. 446. doi: 10.1093 / mq / LXIII.3.446
  • Gerhard Schuhmacher: GP Telemann - Ars Rediviva. In: Musica. Record Reviews. 3. Kassel 1974, p. 293.
  • Judy Smith: Recordings-quarterly check list 9. In: Early Music. 3, 1974, Oxford 1974, pp. 205-210. doi: 10.1093 / earlyj / 2.3.205-d
  • Jaromír Kříž: Naši umělci a barokní interpretace. In: Hudební rozhledy. ( Musikrevue. ) 7. Association of Czech Composers, Prague 1966, pp. 207–208.
  • Československý hudební slovník osob a institucí. ( Czechoslovak Music Lexicon. ) Volume 1. SHV, Prague 1963.
  • Jan Kozák: Českoslovenští hudební umělci a komorní soubory. ( Czechoslovak musicians and chamber ensembles. ) SHV, Prague 1964, pp. 426–429, 454, 456, 469.

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