The Days of Contemporary Music festival whose 31rd year planned for November 2020 had to be cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, made recordings of a part of the original programme and shared them on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_CSoaQmsosVrvNzOjA4FO2Cw0R8EFgH3 .
The recorded pieces include several premieres:
Jan BERAN: Als welkten in den Himmeln ferne Gärten inspired by R. M. Rilke’s poem „Herbst“ for violin and piano (world premiere)
Ludmila Pavlová– violin, Barbora K. Sejáková – piano
Ivo Bláha: Hádes – ancient image for contrabassoon and piano (premiere of a new version)
Ondřej Šindelář – contrabassoon, Stanislav Gallin – piano
Milada Červenková: Three Portraits for Oboe Solo (world premiere)
Magdaléna Moníková-Franková – oboe
Pavel Hrabánek: Footsteps for wind (reed) quintet (world premiere)
Prague Wind Quintet (Jurij Likin – oboe, Vlastimil Mareš – clarinet, Zlata Vohryzková – bass clarinet, Roman Fojtíček – alt saxophone, Miloš Wichterle – bassoon)
Marios Christou: Echoes of Greek Lithurgy (In Arvo Pärt’s Garden) – world premiere
Andrea Mottlová – piano
Elena Kiral: Music on poems by Russian poets (world premiere)
Lucie Prokopová – soprano, Ivana Millek – mezzosoprano, Elena Kiral – piano
Jaroslav Krček: String Quartet no. 6 (world premiere)
Czech Philharmonic Quartet (Leoš Čepický, Viktor Mazáček – violin, Jiří Poslední – viola, Jakub Dvořák – violoncello)
Jiří Laburda: 5. Quartetto per archi (world premiere)
Martinů Quartet (Lubomír Havlák, Adéla Štajnochrová – violin, Zbyněk Paďourek – viola, Jitka Vlašánková – violoncello)
Vít Micka: “Sic transit gloria mundi” – Elegy for String Quartet (world premiere)
Martinů Quartet (Lubomír Havlák, Adéla Štajnochrová – violin, Zbyněk Paďourek – viola, Jitka Vlašánková – violoncello)
Karel Mirošník: Reflexion for tenor saxophone and piano (world premiere)
Roman Fojtíček – tenor saxophone, Daniel Wiesner – piano
Vlastimil Peška: Mirabelles One Hundred Twenty for oboe, heckelphone and piano (world premiere)
Liběna Séquardtová – oboe, Ivan Séquardt – heckelphone, Yukie Ichimura – piano
Jiří Smutný: Three Songs for Medium Voice, Oboe and Harp on Lyrics by Pavel Tylšar (world premiere)
Veronika Kaiserová – voice, Pavel Tylšar – oboe, Lydie Härtelová – harp
Jaroslav Šaroun: Sonata for Piano (premiere of a new version)
Filip Martinka – piano
Zdeněk Šesták: My Heart Is Shaking Violently. Song cycle for soprano and piano on ancient Egyptian poetry (premiere of the whole cycle)
Miroslava Časarová – soprano, Daniel Wiesner – piano
The rest of the programme, which could not get recorded yet (mostly pieces for higher number of performers), will be performed live or as a video-concert as soon as the pandemic situation allows.