Girl and Machine - Lukáš Hurník
The subject of the concert overture The Girl and the Machine recalls Schubert's Death and the Maiden, and possibly also Beauty and the Beast. It is a confrontation of tenderness, humanity and emotionality with the brutal rumbling of the machine.
However, the development of this relationship is unexpected. The machine (orchestra) manages to communicate with the girl (usually solo flute) quite successfully, the girl flirts with it, and the machine behaves like a bull in a china shop, but it is not unlikable. Eventually, a foreseeable conflict between the two takes place. This episode leaves them both strengthened, and, at the end, they rush together, brimming over with youthful energy, towards a happy future in the post-industrial society... But the piece can be also perceived as lacking any programme, as a concerto movement in the extended sonata form with a slow episode in the development.
Other compositions by Lukáš Hurník published in Czech Radio:
Cosi Fun Tutte
Saxophone Quartet no. 1 "President"
Upside-down Variations on Mozart's theme for string quintet / string quartet / string orchestra
instrumentationfl picc, 2fl, 2ob, 2cl, 2fg, 2cor, 2trb, tbn b, timp, perc, archidescriptionscorepubl.No.R 064price230 CZK
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