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Record Review: Summer Record Review: Andrew McGregor with Mark Lowther. Proms Composer Josef Suk

26/08/2017

Summer Record Review: Andrew McGregor with Mark Lowther. Proms Composer Josef Suk

BBC Radio 3 - Record Review, Summer Record Review: Andrew McGregor with Mark Lowther. Proms Composer Josef Suk

Andrew McGregor debates a recent reissue of classic recordings by Louis Fremaux.

Andrew McGregor debates a recent reissue of classic recordings by Louis Fremaux and the CBSO on the Warner label with Mark Lowther.

with Andrew McGregor;

0930 Proms Composer: Josef Suk
Andrew explores recordings of music by the Czech composer Josef Suk, whose symphonic poem 'Prague' features in Prom 56. Suk was just 11 when he entered the Prague Conservatory in 1885. He graduated six years later, but stayed on an extra year to study with Dvořák, who came to regard Suk as his most talented pupil. Suk didn't have to wait long for recognition - he wrote some of his best-known music before he was 20 - and he soon came to be regarded as the musical heir to his distinguished teacher, who later also became his father-in-law; Suk married Dvořák's daughter Otilie in 1898. Not surprisingly, Suk's early style is very much rooted in the music of Dvořák, but as he matured and was exposed to the music of the European modernists, his musical language grew more complex and less accessible, even embracing polytonality. His work both as a teacher - he was appointed Professor of Composition at the Prague Conservatory in 1922 - and performer - he played 2nd violin with the Czech (originally Bohemian) Quartet for 40 years - meant that composing could only be a part-time activity, but his compact oeuvre of piano, chamber, choral, vocal and orchestral music contains some real gems.

1030 Andrew talks to Mark Lowther about a recent reissue of classic recordings by Louis Frémaux and the CBSO on the Warner Classics label.

1145 
Excerpt from Josef Suk's Piano Quartet in A minor, Op 1
Josef Suk Piano Quartet 

Producer Chris Barstow.

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