Logo: takte
Das Bärenreiter Magazin
  • Portrait
  • Music Theatre
  • Orchestra
  • Contemp. Music
  • Complete Ed.
  • Publications
  • Calendar
  • Contact

Deutsch wechsle zu deutsch

Ľubica Čekovská’s orchestral work on the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution

Ľubica Čekovská
Liberte
World premiere: 17.11.2019 Bratislava (Philharmonic), Terézia Kružliaková (mezzo-soprano), Slovak Philharmonic Choir, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Peter Valentovič
Scoring: Mezzo-soprano solo, chorus (SATB) – orchestra: 2, picc, 2, E.hn, 2, b.cl, 2, c.bsn – 4, 3, 3, 1 – timp, perc (7), hp – strings
Publisher: Bärenreiter, BA 11179, performance material available on hire

Ľubica Čekovská has composed Liberte for mezzo-soprano, chorus and orchestra for the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution on 17 November 1989 in Bratislava. Recollections of the largely peaceful transition from socialism to democracy in Czechoslovakia thirty years ago are full of ambivalence for the Slovak composer. “The revolution brought us political liberation, but it has not often led to spiritual freedom. The transition gave us something, but also took something away. It gave rise to economic freedom, but it also produced egoism.” Profound doubt is the basic mood of William Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 66, which expresses discontent with the duplicitous world. Ľubica Čekovská sets a translation by Anna Sedlačková into Slovakian, and combines it with a text by the author Ján Štrasser, born in 1946 in Košice. Her composition Liberte uses the large forces of choir and orchestra in a rich texture, in a rhythmically accentuated, energetic and percussive movement structure, sometimes in a sarcastic march character, sometimes in an elegiac tone. Her commentary on the Revolution is a heterogeneous, deeply divided atmospheric picture.  

MLM
(from [t]akte 2/2019 – Elizabteh Robinson)

<- Back to: Contemp. Music

Deutsch wechsle zu deutsch

Contemporary music

A harpsichord concerto! Miroslav Srnka’s new work for Mahan Esfahani
Beat Furrer explores the secret life of things
Premieres by Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini
New works by Charlotte Seither
“Sixty years in the groove: Dieter Ammann”
Music out of music. Philipp Maintz’s new ensemble work and chorale preludes
Spannungen. Matthias Pintscher premieres and first performances
Torsten Rasch’s “Die andere Frau” – first performance in Dresden
Charlotte Seither member of the European Academy of Sciences
Beat Furrer: premieres in Donaueschingen and Vienna
“Singularity” – Miroslav Srnka’s Space Opera
Tireless progress. The death of the Swiss composer Rudolf Kelterborn
Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini’s orchestral work to complement Mahler’s 4th Symphony
Premiere in Bregenz: Ľubica Čekovská’s “Impresario Dotcom”
Gold, silver, purple. Matthias Pintscher completes his “Shirim” cycle
ImprintData Protection