program - SVIZ

stavek je prvemu podoben po uporabi istih tonov, po ritmu, tempu in
harmonizaciji pa se od njega razlikuje. Njegov pesemski značaj teži k
variacijski obliki, a tudi oblikovno spominja na prvi stavek. Hitri menuet
je le še reminiscenca na starinski ples, medtem ko se trio bliža dunajskemu
ländlerju. Živahni finale v sonatni obliki je tehtna in velika sinteza
dunajske klasike z elementi ljudske in plesne glasbe.
Haydn je v »londonskih simfonijah« združil simfonične ideale 18. stoletja
ter v njih zajel raznolikost glasbenih slogov in žanrov svojega časa.
Simfonijo klasicizma je pripeljal do skrajnosti in zaključil bogato obdobje
glasbene zgodovine. Simfonija št. 104 ima celo nekaj »mozartovskih«
potez, s katerimi se je morda poklonil svojemu sopotniku v nekem glasbenem
obdobju. Ko je Haydn pod zadnjo simfonijo napisal »Fine Laus
Deo« (»Konec, Bogu hvala«), je morda slutil, da do konca življenja ne bo
napisal nobene simfonije več. Kar je v njih iskal, je našel, in kar je hotel
povedati, je tudi povedal.
Sergei Prokofiev is known primarily for his symphonic works, such as the
Classical Symphony and the musical fairy tale Peter and the Wolf. Artistically
he stands between Stravinsky and Shostakovich, between the freedom of the
cosmopolitan and the social realism of the Soviet Union. Although in his last
years it seemed that he would have to choose between ‘patriotic ideals’, that
is, the regime, and artistic freedom, he was fortunate in that after the war he
created daring and original music that was at the same time ‘understandable’,
as was demanded by the authorities.
Prokofiev did not write a great number of chamber works; apart from two
shorter compositions there is the sonata for violin, cello or flute and piano,
the solo violin sonata and two string quartets. The Flute Sonata was written
during the Second World War. Prokofiev responded to the events of the war
with patriotic propaganda music, while also withdrawing into the ‘absolutism’
and intimacy of instrumental, chamber music. The Flute Sonata falls into
the period of this wave of chamber music creativity. It was first performed
on 7 December 1943 in Moscow (in 1944 it was performed in its version for
violin as the Violin Sonata No. 2). Counting amongst Prokofiev’s neoclassical
works in terms of form, Sonata Op. 94 is joyous, clear and transparent. In the
composition’s four movements the elegant working of the thematic material
unfolds before the listener, full of fantasy and at the same time making exhaustive
use of the colouristic and technical capabilities of the solo instrument.
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Mozart’s quartets for transverse flute and strings are lighter occasional
works. Three of them were written in Mannheim in the 1777/78 season for
Ferdinand Dejean from the Dutch East India Company. Dejean had actually
commissioned three concertos and three quartets with flute, but due to time
pressure Mozart was unable to fulfil the commission entirely. At the time, the
22-year-old composer was drawn more to the freedom that he experienced for
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