CD 4 Symphonies__________________________________________________________
North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Maestro Charles Olivieri-Munroe
Symphony 3 ‘Arquipélago magnético’
‘Magnetic archipelago’
1- Movement 1 8:20
2- Movement 2 7:44
3- Final generoso 6:36
Symphony 4 ‘Buda Dharma’
4- 1 Movement 19:00
Symphony 6 ‘Monte Verde’
‘GreenMont’
5- 1 Movement 14:00
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The
orchestra
North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
The beginning of the activities of the spa orchestra in
In January 1949 Miloslav Bervíd entered on the function of the General Manager of the orchestra and his pivotal aim was to rebuild the spa orchestra into a symphonic orchestra, which had to be able to manage the most fastidious challenges. In September 1956 Bohumil Berka was named into the position of the artistic leader of the orchestra. He left enduring artistical impressions and was at the head of the orchestra until the year 1972. On the position of the second conductor changed off some later on well known personalities -
Martin Turnovský, Libor Pešek and Vladimír Válek. In the year 1972 Jaroslav Soukup
was named into the positions of the General Manager and Chief conductor. He
again enlarged the orchestra, which from the year 1979 was called North Czech
State Philharmonic. It was his idea to build a concert hall on a high aesthetic
and acoustic level. In the year 1989 Jan Štván was named into the function of
the Chief conductor and from the year 1991 Tomáš Koutník carried out that work.
In the concert season 1997/98 Charles Olivieri-Munroe entered on the position
of the Chief conductor, which he executes up to the present day. The North
Czech Philharmonic absolved a lot of concert tours. It was representating the
statutory city of
Maestro Charles Olivieri-Munroe
Canadian
conductor Charles Olivieri-Munroe,
accumulated a unique
wealth of experience on the orchestral podium. During the early 1990's as a
student of conducting in
As
a guest conductor, Olivieri-Munroe has worked with such orchestras as the
Deutches Symphonie-Orchester Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra, Budapest Symphony,
Prague Philharmonia, Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic,
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Orchester der Beethovenhalle
Text
included in the CD, by
Henri-Claude Fantapié, composer
and conductor (France)
In the darkness that surround us,
Born in
Study of his island music and a
predilection for Eastern philosophies soon led him to position his creative
world in line with the work of Villa-Lobos and Sibelius, rather like Hohvaness
in the
Martins’s first works were performed
while he was still a student. Having received an award from the Tribune of
UNESCO for the Solistes de Paris recording of his Quinto Mundo, a suite that
already prefigured his future works, he composed Danças de Câncer, which was
his first performed at the 38e Rugissants Festival in Grenoble, then played in
Paris and finally recorded. When he returned to
He began to take an interest in
‘World Music’, writing traditional songs for Herminia (a Cape Verdean woman
singer), and produced a delicate cycle for voice and two celli for a recording
by female singer Bévinda, but his attempts to introduce “erudite” music to his
island and circulate his works for chamber and symphonic orchestras were
frustrated by a lack of creative structures and the difficulty of making a name
for oneself without assiduously frequenting the major centers of musical
creativity. Yet, little by little, his work
His eight symphonies are
metaphysical, formal studies that suggest the Sibelian way of thinking,
although he only discovered that approach in 2004, once a large part of his
work was already written. Their simple, modal language is inseparably linked to
beats which remind us that Cape Verde is a bridge between Africa and Brazil, a
port of call lost in a vast ocean, a still natural place that can only be
escaped by means of imagination, especially by identifying with birds- which
you might see as the only creatures able to cover the distances separating you
from the rest of the world- or simply dreaming, as the four symphonies recorded
here show.
Symphony No.3
“Arquipélago magnético” (Magnetic Archipelago) is in three parts. The opus
begins with an exhilarating, even Dionysian movement, followed by a long
meditation from the wind section, which unfolds over a fabric of strings and
the offbeat rhythm of the orchestra’s basses. After a meditative, melodic
second part, the third movement takes wing in a kind of perpetual motion.
Symphony No. 4
“ Buddha Dharma” was written in ten days in March 2001 and first performed in
Brazil in the same year, before being staged again in France in 2007.
Consisting of a single movement, it was written in the heart of nature at
nightfall in the mountains of St. Vicente Island, inspired by this final judgment
of the Buddha: “All component things must
dissolve. Buddha can only point the way.
Become a lamp unto yourself, work out your own salvation diligently».
Pandion Halietus, the osprey, also
called the
Symphony No.8,
also in one movement, is entitled “A procura da luz” (the search for light).
Ascending and descending scales are repeated in succession and, as very often
in Martin’s work, differently each time, embroidered with motifs that appear as
the piece unfolds.
Music and images: Symphony 3, Movement 1
Music and images: Symphony 4 extract
Music and images:Symphony 6, extract
Music and images:Symphony 8, extract