Concerto for Flute and Chamber Orchestra - Ilja Hurník / piano score
The first works of the composer, pianist and writer Ilja Hurník (1922 - 2013), appeared as soon as in 1933; those early works are still relevant as classical instructive literature today. Since then Hurník's development continued smoothly without any style shifts. In 1938 Hurník's family had to flee to Prague because of the Sudeten annexation. The loss of his native Silesia has been compensated by the opportunity to become a student of pronounced teachers Vítězslav Novák for composition and prof. Vilém Kurz for piano play. Later, Ilja Hurník has broadened his scope of composition and life of a piano stage player by literature and education.
Hurník's Flute Concerto from 1954 belongs among the series of works inspired by Milan Munclinger and his ensemble Ars rediviva (Sonata de Camera, Esercizi for brass quartet, and others). The piece was composed as a neoclassical protest against the constraint of socialistic realism. The three-part work adopts classical concerto form, relieved expression and instrumentation brilliancy.
Other compositions by Ilja Hurník published in Czech Radio:
Concerto for Flute and Chamber Orchestra - score
Music for Piano
Symphony in C
Twelve Piano Preludes
instrumentationfl solo, pftedescriptionpiano score, solo partpubl.NoR 071price230 CZK