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Alternative Proposal of Concert Hall in Brno - Janáček Cultural Center
Fikejs, Oldřich ; Bindr, Tomáš (referee) ; Marek, Jiří (advisor)
The Brno Philharmonic is renowned all over the world from London to Tokyo, but in its home town only has a small hall with poor acoustics not suitable for symphony concerts. The efforts to construct a worthy cultural venue to meet the needs of Brno go back to the interwar period and their implementation is still not in sight.The core of the project is a concert hall with capacity of 1,812. Its layout combines the advantages of standard shoebox-shaped halls and surround halls, because the best music experience gets the viewer who is quite close to the orchestra. The disadvantages of the former include poor contact with the orchestra in the rear seating, the latter sacrifice acoustical excellence mainly in the side and rear seating areas for audience proximity and visual stimulation. The building is composed of three functionally distinct parts: the audience’s part, musicians‘ background and technical equipment. The operation of each is placed in a horizontal part of a L-shaped solid. The vertical parts face each other creating a raised central cube containing the concert hall.
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Life and Work of Dmitrij Shostakovich with Focus on His Violin Concerto No. 1 op. 77 and String Quartet No. 8 op. 110
Macháček, Jakub ; Tomášek, Jiří (advisor) ; Perglerová, Marka (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with Dmitry Shostakovich and his works. Its aim is to map the life of the composer and to further characterize his two works, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 a minor op. 77 and String Quartet No. 8 in C minor op. 110. The thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter is about composer's life in the difficult living and creative conditions of the Soviet Union of that time and about selected compositions of his. In the following two chapters, the analyzes of the two above-mentioned works and the historical context in which they were create are presented. The thesis also provides an interpretative analysis of the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 a minor, which is also an interpretative comparison of the concert recordings of David Oistrach and Julian Rachlin.
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Interpretative analysis of various recordings of the 8th symphony of Antonín Dvořák, op. 88
Šalšová, Kristina ; SVÁROVSKÝ, Leoš (advisor) ; FARKAČ, Hynek (referee)
The Eighth Symphony written by Antonín Dvořák with the often referenced subtitle “English” and opus number 88, is one of the core pieces not only of the Czech symphonic repertoire. In this work I deal with the comparison of five different recordings of this work. Recordings are chosen to represent not only the individual epochs of the 20th century, but also the contemporary aesthetics of this symphony. I compare the recordings of Rafael Kubelík, Karel Ančerl, Libor Pešek, Vladimír Válek and Jiří Bělohlávek. For these conductors, at the time of recording, this piece was one of the basic works in their repertoire. We cannot apply the same thing to all orchestras; some of them played the song for the first time. For each recording, its sound properties are assessed, taking into account the time options. Recording teams have achieved remarkable recordings even in earlier times on which, of course, their great share also had great conductors, who we follow in the interpretation of the main Czech symphonic works until today. Then there are dynamic, tempo or agogic differences, including the scope of work and musical logic. By repeated listening, I was getting more and more detail and finding that one and the same symphony could be interpreted quite differently without having to designate one of the interpretations as the most successful. It is also necessary to point out that not the same musical means will be appreciated by the listener at a live concert or studio recording. An interesting category is so-called live recordings from concerts.
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Life and Work of Dmitrij Shostakovich with Focus on His Violin Concerto No. 1 op. 77 and String Quartet No. 8 op. 110
Macháček, Jakub ; Tomášek, Jiří (advisor) ; Perglerová, Marka (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with Dmitry Shostakovich and his works. Its aim is to map the life of the composer and to further characterize his two works, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 a minor op. 77 and String Quartet No. 8 in C minor op. 110. The thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter is about composer's life in the difficult living and creative conditions of the Soviet Union of that time and about selected compositions of his. In the following two chapters, the analyzes of the two above-mentioned works and the historical context in which they were create are presented. The thesis also provides an interpretative analysis of the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 a minor, which is also an interpretative comparison of the concert recordings of David Oistrach and Julian Rachlin.
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Alternative Proposal of Concert Hall in Brno - Janáček Cultural Center
Fikejs, Oldřich ; Bindr, Tomáš (referee) ; Marek, Jiří (advisor)
The Brno Philharmonic is renowned all over the world from London to Tokyo, but in its home town only has a small hall with poor acoustics not suitable for symphony concerts. The efforts to construct a worthy cultural venue to meet the needs of Brno go back to the interwar period and their implementation is still not in sight.The core of the project is a concert hall with capacity of 1,812. Its layout combines the advantages of standard shoebox-shaped halls and surround halls, because the best music experience gets the viewer who is quite close to the orchestra. The disadvantages of the former include poor contact with the orchestra in the rear seating, the latter sacrifice acoustical excellence mainly in the side and rear seating areas for audience proximity and visual stimulation. The building is composed of three functionally distinct parts: the audience’s part, musicians‘ background and technical equipment. The operation of each is placed in a horizontal part of a L-shaped solid. The vertical parts face each other creating a raised central cube containing the concert hall.
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