Liška - The Valley Of The Bees

Zdeněk Liška's soundtrack to film of František Vláčil "Údolí včel" (The Valley Of The Bees) from 1967.  Zdeněk Liška’s gift for film music was based on his ability to create tension and drama even on small space. Liška also used a wide range of musical styles, from brass music to electronica.

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Liška - Music From Short Films by Jan ŠŠvankmajer

Zdeněk Liška (1922–1983) was a Czech composer who produced a large of number film scores across a prolific career. He was very relevatory in development of experimental electronic music, composed for severel movies from the beginning of his work, that started in the 1950s, thrilled in using unique sound sources. He worked notably with animator Jan Švankmajer, scoring several of his films. This alvum is a survey of that cooperation.

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Hirsch - Markéta, the daughter of Lazar

“Markéta, dcera Lazarova” (Markéta, the daughter of Lazar), op.85, 2009-2010, by Czech composer Vladimír Hirsch. Originally soundtrack to the stage play of the same name, a romantic drama, based on Vladislav Vančura's novel. The music in conjoint short pieces, contemporary classical in its base, with an industrial and ambient tint, flows from choral motifs and sorrowful violins surrounded by calm ambience to dramatic eruptions of passion and violent hunts of percussion, clanging metal, nervous pianos and disturbing string inputs.

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