Evening dedicated to Viktor Kalabis music and recordings at Paliesiaus dvaras

From 21st till 31st of January, with the concert on 27th, Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra, Maestro Gidon Kremer and Maestro Fuad Ibrahimov were completing an important work on music of Czech composer Viktor Kalabis at the Paliesius Manor in Lithuania. 
 

Although most of Kalabis's works are symphonic, concertante or chamber compositions, his composed several vocal works such as the cantata Canticum Canticorum, the chamber cantata Vojna (The War), song cycles and choruses. For stage, he wrote the Fable for chamber orchestra and the two-part ballet score Dva světy (Two Worlds), inspired by Lewis Carrol  book “Alices adventures in Wonderland”. The video recording of this ballet was given the "Parents choice awards" of 1993 in the United States. In 1967, he received the Prize of the Czechoslovak Music Critics and in 1969 he was awarded the State Prize.

According to Aleš Březina, a close friend of Kalabis', "his beginnings in the fifties and in the early sixties were deeply influenced by people like Stravinsky and Hindemith, and Honegger and Bartók – and Martinů of course."

You can read more about Viktor Kalabis:

www.kalabisruzickova.cz

www.kalabismusic.org