Heart of the Gardens - Kryštof Marek
„The first impulse to write The Heart of the Gardens came right after a premiere of a violin concerto that I wrote and that was performed by a violin virtuoso Gabriela Demeterová in April 2012 at Žofín in Prague.
A friend of mine and an amazing performer Jitka Tomšíčková who played the first oboe in the orchestra then came to me and asked me to write a concerto for her – and especially for her favorite instrument cor anglais. So I did and I finished it already in September 2013 and it was premiered in Rudolfinum in Prague already in February of the following year.
The reason why there is the word garden in the title is simple – the concert is a part of pentalogy of concerts that have this word in their titles. The already mentioned violin concerto “The Key to the Gardens“, or a piano concerto “The Gate to the Gardens“ /2014/ and also the other planned works of the cycle of concerts will be related to gardens. The heart of the gardens – that is the place where all the routes that interlace the garden finally meet in the very centre of it. One has to take care of it and also fight for its survival, for example by writing a concerto about it." K. Marek
Other compositions by Kryštof Marek published in Czech Radio:
Overture on themes of Jakub Jan
Parts only for hire at nakladatelstvi@rozhlas.cz