Dancing You Within - Jan Kučera
There are times when everything inside you dances and you don’t know why. It doesn’t necessarily have to be the time of your life, you can even be dealing with something annoying, but there is just no stopping the dancing You within.
This is what my composition is about. I wanted it to be playful, cheeky, sexy, constantly surprising… Drawing on the jazz music tradition of the 1920s, the music is full of syncopations and distinctive rhythm, with reminiscences of ragtime and the blues. The two instruments, the piano and the solo bassoon, are equals, two complementary and cooperating partners.
Other compositions by Jan Kučera published in Czech Radio:
Baroque Reminiscence / score
Baroque Reminiscence / piano score
Benedicamus Domino
Birth
Contemplation
Full House
Joker
Suite Concertante