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Karel Husa: Music for Wind Quintet - Belfiato Quintet

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Composer
Karel Husa
Artist
Belfiato Quintet, Oto Reiprich, Jan Soucek, Jiri Javurek, Jan Hudecek, Katerina Javurkova, Prague Ph
Format
CD
Label
Supraphon
Released
Mar 27, 2026
Catalog #
SU4369-2
UPC
099925436926

About

Karel Husa and the Belfiato Quintet - music inspired by freedom, recollections, and birds / Following the Prague Symphony Orchestra (CD Music for Prague, 2021) and the clarinettist Anna Paulova (2023), the Belfiato Quintet has also headed down the path of discovering the remarkable works of Karel Husa, a Pulitzer Prize and Grawemeyer Award winner, and one of the most prominent figures of Czech 20th-century music. Husa went to Paris to study underNadia Boulanger and Arthur Honegger. After the communist putsch of February 1948, he decided to remain abroad, working at Cornell University in the USA most of his life. He never forgot his homeland, however. This can be heard, for example, in his colourfulSerenade for Wind Quintet, Strings, Xylophone and Harp, which draws upon material from his earlier Evocations de Slovaquie. In these works, the composer relived his difficult decision not to return to his homeland. About Recollections for wind quintet and piano, the composer said: "Recollections are vivid, but not exactly precise. The way we remember things is a mix of accuracy and fancy... To accomplish all this, I wanted the composition to develop from simple tones and to return to them, all the while researching new combinations and sonorities in the quintet." Husa put his love of birds into his Five Poems for wind quintet, "for these wonderful creatures, who embellish our lives so magically"; he employs a wide range of musical resources including microtones and aleatory. In the Serenade, the superb BelfiatoQuintet is joined by the Prague Philharmonia led by Emmanuel Villaume, and inRecollections by Matous Zukal, a major talent among today's young pianists.

Tracklist 15 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Moderato marciale 02:04
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Moderato marciale
    Duration
    02:04
    Composer
    Karel Husa
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet
  2. 2 No. 2. Quasi recitativo 02:18
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Quasi recitativo
    Duration
    02:18
    Composer
    Karel Husa
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet
  3. 3 No. 3. Interlude: Adagio - 01:12
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Interlude: Adagio -
    Duration
    01:12
    Composer
    Karel Husa
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet
  4. 4 No. 3. Poco piú vivo 04:05
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 3. Poco piú vivo
    Duration
    04:05
    Composer
    Karel Husa
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet
  5. 5 No. 4. Vivace 04:01
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 4. Vivace
    Duration
    04:01
    Composer
    Karel Husa
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet
  6. 6 No. 5. Maestoso 04:23
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 5. Maestoso
    Duration
    04:23
    Composer
    Karel Husa
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet
  7. 7 I. Largo 04:37
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Largo
    Duration
    04:37
    Composer
    Karel Husa
    Performer
    Matouš Zukal
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet
  8. 8 II. Andante 04:09
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    04:09
    Composer
    Karel Husa
    Performer
    Matouš Zukal
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet
  9. 9 III. Adagio 03:09
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Adagio
    Duration
    03:09
    Composer
    Karel Husa
    Performer
    Matouš Zukal
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet
  10. 10 IV. Moderato 02:40
    Track
    10
    Title
    IV. Moderato
    Duration
    02:40
    Composer
    Karel Husa
    Performer
    Matouš Zukal
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet
  11. 11 V. Vivace 04:23
    Track
    11
    Title
    V. Vivace
    Duration
    04:23
    Composer
    Karel Husa
    Performer
    Matouš Zukal
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet
  12. 12 VI. Moderato 02:08
    Track
    12
    Title
    VI. Moderato
    Duration
    02:08
    Composer
    Karel Husa
    Performer
    Matouš Zukal
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet
  13. 13 I. La Montagne 05:25
    Track
    13
    Title
    I. La Montagne
    Duration
    05:25
    Composer
    Karel Husa
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet, Prague Philharmonia
    Conductor
    Emmanuel Villaume
  14. 14 II. La Nuit 04:29
    Track
    14
    Title
    II. La Nuit
    Duration
    04:29
    Composer
    Karel Husa
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet, Prague Philharmonia
    Conductor
    Emmanuel Villaume
  15. 15 III. La Danse 04:47
    Track
    15
    Title
    III. La Danse
    Duration
    04:47
    Composer
    Karel Husa
    Ensemble
    Belfiato Quintet, Prague Philharmonia
    Conductor
    Emmanuel Villaume