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Terezie Fialová & Jiří Bárta

Beethoven: The Sonatas For Piano & Cello

 

biography

“Technically unfazeable, musically charismatic and blessed with a poet's sensibilities...”

(Daniel Cariaga, Los Angeles Times)

 

Concert activities of Jiří Bárta, one of the foremost cellists of his generation, have taken him to most of European countries, North & South America, Australia, Japan and Korea as well as Africa and Middle East. He has appeared at festivals such as Edinburgh, Kuhmo, Lugano, Newport, Prague Spring Festival, Schubert Festival Salzburg, Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival. As a concerto soloist or in recital  he has performed in venues such as Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Berlin Konzerthaus, Birmingham Symphony Hall, Manchester Bridgewater Hall, Buenos Aires Teatro Colon, Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Dublin Concert Hall, Edinburgh Queen Elisabeth Hall, L’Auditorio in Barcelona, Los Angeles Dorothy Chandler Pavilion,  London Wigmore Hall, Royce Hall at UCLA, Prague Rudolfinum, Tokyo Suntory and Casals Halls, Paris Theatre Chatelet, Paris Auditorium de Louvre, Salzburg Mozarteum, Soul Arts Center, Washington National Gallery with instrumentalists such as Quatuor Ebene, Ilya Gringolts, Chloe Hanslip, Martin Kasík, Piers Lane, Konstantin Lifschitz, Hamish Milne, Vadim Repin, Dmitri Sitkovetski,  Josef Suk or Antoine Tamestit, with orchestras such as Czech Philharmonic Orchestra,  Berlin Symphony, Prague Philharmonia, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic London, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Glasgow, Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra and, finaly, with conductors such as Jiří Bělohlávek,  Charles Dutoit, Jakub Hrůša, Gianandrea Noseda, Libor Pešek, Gennadi Rozhdestvenski and Maxim Shostakovich.

 

As a recording artist on a Supraphon label Jiří Bárta has released  Dvorak Celloconcerto with Czech Philharmonic/Jiří Bělohlávek, live recording of performance commemorating Dvorak‘s 100 year’s anniversary  televised throughout Europe by Arte Channel. Both CDs with Kodaly Cello works and Martinu/Foerster/Novak concertos respectively have been awarded Gramophon Editor’s Choice.  His other Supraphon recordings include Bach Cello Suites and Shostakovich concertos,  two discs for  Hyperion include sonatas by Moscheles, Hummel and Rubinstein Sonatas.  He has collaborated with mezzosoprano Magdalena Kozena on her Deutsche Grammophon Lieder project awarded by Gramophone Award.

 

 

 

As an enthusiastic chamber musician Jiri has co-founded Kutna Hora Chamber Music Festival, festival aimed at both worlds of contemporary and classical  music which gained instant recogition as one of the top classical festivals in the Czech Republic.

 

Jiří Bárta studied in Prague with Josef Chuchro, in Cologne with Boris Pergamenschikow and in Los Angeles with Eleonore Schoenfeld. After winning number of national competitions he has been awarded the Europäische Förderpreis für Musik in Dresden and the Rostropovich-Hammer Award in Los Angeles. Jiří  was featured in Czech TV documentary „Můj pokus o mistrovský opus (Bárta versus Bach Cello Suites)“ which won Prix CIRCOM of 2015 in Irland.

 

Jiří Bárta currently plays violoncello built by Dietmar Rexhausen in 2012.

 

 

 

 

 

The Six Cello Suites

Johan Sebastian Bach / Jiří Bárta

2018

36 skladeb, 2 h 23 min

 

 

 

The Sonatas For Piano & Cello

Beethoven / Jiří Bárta, Terezie Fialová

2021

12 skladeb, 2h

 

Jiří Bárta se vrací k k repertoáru, který nahrál již před 23 lety, obohacen o mnoho životních i interpretačních zkušeností, a to ve zcela novém pojetí - pro nahrávku tentokrát použil barokní violoncello se střevovými strunami, čímž celkové vyznění skladby přiblížil její pravděpodobné originální podobě - namísto expresivity přichází spíše meditace a zklidnění. Bárta ke kompletu přistupuje jako k šestivěté symfonii ("Vzpomínám na chvíli, kdy jsem před lety hrál komplet poprvé. Bylo to jako zjevení: jednotlivé suity se mi zpodobnily v dokonalém tvaru jako symfonie o šesti větách, jako příběh života o šesti kapitolách; naprosto logická a prokomponovaná skladba.") a nácviku nového provedení a přípravě studiové nahrávky věnoval mnoho času a interpretační i zvukové péče. Nahrávka aspiruje na vážno-hudební událost sezóny.

discography

festival

The Kutná Hora International Music Festival ranks among Czech foremost chamber music events. The general outline of its programme and the selection of artists taking part are determined by the festival’s artistic director, the cellist Jiří Bárta.

The programme is focused predominantly on classical chamber music. That notwithstanding, Jiří Bárta has invariably incorporated into the festival lineup of concerts a special treat picked from the domains of crossover, jazz, or even rock music. This is a feature that has never failed to thrill the event’s audiences.

Everything that can be heard at the festival is actually created on the spot, in Kutná Hora. Most of the concerts come into existence as a result of as many creative workshops. That, to be sure, is something which sets this particular festival apart from most others, since otherwise it is extremely rare for a group of excellent solo musicians to get together on the same stage at one time. Hence the immense joy of music-making that is literally tangible during each of the concert nights here.

The concerts take place in Corpus Christi Chapel, Church of St. Barbara, Refectory of Jesuit College – Central Bohemian Region Gallery / GASK, etc.

 

 

 

 

Places of the concerts:

 

Church of St. Barbara – Barborská street, Kutná Hora

 

Corpus Christi Chapel – Barborská street, Kutná Hora,

 

Church of St. John Nepomucene – Husova 121/43, Kutná Hora

 

Church of the Annunciation of the Virgin – Bohdaneč near Kutná Hora

 

Music and Arts School Vladislavova 376, Kutná Hora

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

video

Můj pokus o mistrovský opus / premiéra 15. 4. 2017 ČT art

 

Jiří Bárta versus Bachovy Suity pro sólové violoncello

 

Na plovárně / premiéra 10. 9. 2014 ČT art

 

Jiří Bárta

 

contact

 

Email: jiri@jiribarta.cz

 

 

 

 

 

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“This was Bárta’s Bach. Throughout the recital, his technical command of cello and bow were manifest, aiding and abetting his musical ideas.”

(Cashman Kerr Prince, Boston Musical Intelligencer)

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