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Jan Hanuš
12+ albums
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Jan Hanuš (May 2nd, 1915, Prague - July 30th, 2004) was a Czech composer of modern a contemporary classical music. In his composer's work Jan Hanus is following up with the Czech Smetana and Dvořák tradition in the traces of his teacher Otakar Jeremiáš. They both, too, share a sense for the subject relevance of works, a broadminded architectonics, a full to packed orchestral sound and an unfailing musical-dramatic imagination. Hanus's access to compositional tasks is a searching one, that's why the evolutionary line of his production is changing, always aiming at new conceptions. Nevertheless there are no violent ups and downs in Mr Hanus's work: his idiom includes constant elements, especially in melodics, rhythmics and instrumentation, which pass all phases of his composer's development. Hanuš's young production had its dominants in passionately pathetic, philosophic and patriotic aims, such his opera The Flames. The first post-war decade witnessed lyricism, near to national tradition (2nd Symphony, The Czech Year), since the late fifties have been evident a new tendency to a dramatic view of the world and a musically expressive innovation (3rd Symphony), reaching as far as the combination of traditional means of expression with the electronics (esp. in the opera The Torch of Prometheus). The seventies and eighties are the period of synthesis of all his preceding advances, and their improved utilization. Jan Hanus has always aimed at emphasizing the great spiritual values o
top songs
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Titelmusik
182Heimat " Admiral Benbow "
83Trio Concertante for Oboe, Harp and Piano, Op. 59b: I. Andantino
84Concerto piccolo, Op. 70: I. Mattinata
75Anker lichten
66Bristol
67Trio Concertante for Oboe, Harp and Piano, Op. 59b: II. Molto vivace e leggiero
68Concerto piccolo, Op. 70: II. Notturnino
59Seekiste durchforsten
510Sonata quasi una fantasia for Oboe and Piano, Op. 61: I. Moderato con fantasia
5albums
Die Schatzinsel
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Hanus/ Eben/ Hass: Risonanza
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Contemporary Czech Music - Spiritual Music By Czech Authors
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Ančerl Gold Edition 41 Hanuš: Salt Is Better Than Gold, Symphony No. 2
Hanuš: Symphony No. 6 - Kalabis: Symphony No. 5
Risonanza
Ančerl Gold Edition 41. Hanuš: Symphony No. 2, Salt above Gold, ballet suite
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Trio Concertante for oboe, harp and piano, Op. 59b (1978)
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Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia for oboe and piano, Op. 61 (1968)
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Requiem - Missa VIII. pro defunctis, op. 121
Karel Ančerl Gold Edition 41
Karel Ančerl Gold Edition 11