Petr Bakla
Late Night Show
All my music is night music, says the composer Petr Bakla. Three pieces featured on the new album Late Night Show span almost a decade and provide varied examples of his style, 'so specific and personal, so allergic to fashion or aesthetic trend', as Eric Wubbels puts it in the insightful liner note. The central instrument is the piano, operated by Bakla´s longtime collaborator Miroslav Beinhauer, accompanied by the musicians of Brno Contemporary Orchestra.
Usableness Of The List / Portfolio
*In process of stocking* The album features two pieces for solo piano that occupy - each in a different way - a central position in Petr Bakla´s output, as the composer explains in the elaborated liner notes. As pianist, Miroslav Beinhauer focuses on contemporary music. Besides, he is probably the only person in the world to master Alois Hába´s sixth-tone harmonium, for which instrument he encourages new repertoire.
Piano Concerto - Classical Blend/Weihnachtsoratorium
Petr Bakla belongs to generation of composers whose output no longer seems bound to the imperative of the "search for sounds" extended technique. Instead, he builds his music on the unmarked instrumental sound, which he uses to create a flow of interacting layers and explore the means of pure pitch, time and sound volume to the expressive extreme. His first ever solo release presents him at his best - two orchestral pieces as a definite manifesto of monumental monochromatic environments, b…