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Jiř� Srnka Film Film Music Collection
Jiř� Srnka Biography
Another in many respects ground-breaking protagonist of Czech film music was Jiř� Srnka (1907–1982), who worked in film for a very long time, more than forty years. He studied violin and composition at the Prague Conservatory,
then continued composition in the master class of V�tězslav Nov�k and the quarter-tone class of Alois H�ba. He found an important place for his talents initially as a violinist and then as a composer, at the side of Jaroslav Ježek in the orchestra of
the Liberated Theatre. Thanks to this position he also gained his first commission for a film – a short about Czech aviators titled Dejte n�m kř�dla [Give us Wings], for which Srnka wrote the music in just one day. During his career he then created music for more than seventy full-length feature films and for many television dramas and serials. In his work we find extensive symphonic scores, but he had a greater affinity with experimental music and also notched up an impressive number of successful song hits.
During the Second World War under German occupation Czech film followed a strongly nationally orientated line, turning more often (as a result of censorship) to history or to idyllic rural settings. Among the most significant films that Srnka wrote music for in this period we might mention for example the romantic Ohniv� l�to [Fiery Summer] by the directors František Č�p and V�clav Krška or the impressionistic Poh�dka m�je [Fairytale of May], one of the first fruits of Srnka’s long collaboration with the leading director Otakar V�vra. Srnka worked with V�vra on other very successful movies. In the titles Rozina sebranec [Rozina the Bastard], shot during the war but completed deliberately slowly in an effort to avoid the censor with a view to a premiere following liberation, and in the wartime Nezbedn� bakal�ř [The Naughty Bachelor], Srnka established himself as an outstanding composer for films with historical themes, while in V�vra’s eponymous movie adaptation of Karel Čapek’s novel Krakatit, symbolically warning against the nuclear threat, Srnka offers a score that prefigures microtonal and sonoristic experimental musical approaches for the sci-fi genre.
The harshest period of socialist totalitarianism, i.e. after the Communist Party putsch in Czechoslovakia in 1948 and above all the first half of the 1950s, had a very negative effect on Czechoslovak art as a whole. Official art succumbed to ideological dictate. In film we find a predominance of two-dimensional Jiř� Srnka schematic stories full of propagandistic enthusiasm for building communism and the fight against the decadent bourgeois West. While involved in several films of this kind, Srnka also contributed to films of essentially higher quality, such as V�vra’s Něm� barik�da [The Dum Barricade] (1949) about the dramatic events of the Prague Uprising in May 1945 or Kršek’s film adaptation of Fr�ňa Šr�mek’s famous play Měs�c nad řekou [The Moon over the River] (1953). The music for The Moon over the River became one of the best-known of Srnka’s works and the composer reworked it into a suite that was successful on concern podiums. In the 1960s the centre of gravity of Srnka’s work shifted to music for stage, but primarily in collaboration with Otakar V�vra, he produced a number of other very important film scores, for films based on the works of the poet František Hrub�n – Zlat� reneta [The Golden Rennet] (1963) and Romance pro kř�dlovku [Romance for Bugle] (1966) and then for the harrowing historical drama about witch hunting Kladivo na čarodějnice [Hammer for Witches] adapted from the novel by V�clav Kaplick�. In The Golden Rennet in particular Srnka moved the furthest from his earlier more lyrical idioms and his music once again showed a proximity to contemporary trends in avant-garde music, serialism and work with innovative timbres and microtones.
In short, Srnka represented the type of composer who constantly developed and so contributed strikingly to the qualitative progress of Czech film music.
Awards
• National Award (N�rodn� cena) for the film score to Ohniv� l�to (1940)
• State Award (St�tn� cena) for the film score to Něm� barik�da (1949)
• State Award (St�tn� cena) for Film Music (1958)
• State Award II st. (Laure�t st�tn� ceny II. st.) for the film score to Měs�c nad řekou (1954)
• Title "Zasloužil� umělec" (Deserved Artist)
Hr�tky s čertem / Playing with the Devil / Spielen mit dem Teufel
Czechoslovakia, 1956
01 Opening Titles (http://www.mediafire.com/file/gffo7fuchhz2nsj/01_Hr%C3%A1tky_s_%C4%8Dertem_-_Opening_Titles.mp3) 2:10
02 Martin Kab�t's Song (feat. Josef Bek) / Lucius's Song (feat. Josef Vinkl�ř) 1:44
03 Suitors March (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwqvrUyVaFg) / The King of Princess Disperanda (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAP5fwLglKA) 1:58
04 Father Scholastikus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fVrJtz4DMQ) 1:51
05 K�ca's Song (feat. Eva Klep�čov�) 1:38
06 Lucius Tempts Scholastikus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSQLVPPZPq0) 2:52
07 The Devil's March 1:09
08 Wedding Procession and Turmoil 1:38
09 Angel Theophil (https://youtu.be/mSQLVPPZPq0?t=8m9s) / The Lovers 1:25
10 Finale 0:41
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO)
Conducted by František Belf�n
Dařbuj�n a Pandrhola / Darbujan and Pandrhola / Gevatter Tod
Czechoslovakia, 1959
11 Opening Titles (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQHf9PTaNXc) 1:52
12 Prologue 1:42
13 Pandrhola Appears (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HHp63mHfuM) / Darbujan Gets Chased 1:18
14 A New Morning 0:41
15 Pandrhola's Theme (https://youtu.be/L2dD_kAL1a0?t=8s) 0:46
16 Tavern Dance / Darbujan's Solo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6gPZjpU04k) (feat. Jiř� Sov�k) 1:34
17 The River of Beer 1:48
18 The Oxen Carriage 2:03
19 Feeding Pandrhola (https://youtu.be/qFTFZ-sNNoI?t=1m8s) / Pandrhola is Angry (https://youtu.be/UQom9u7aS_A?t=15s) 2:39
20 End Titles 1:00
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO)
Conducted by František Belf�n
Kluci na řece / Knaben am Fluss / Boys on the River
Czechoslovakia, 1944
21 Opening Titles 2:08
22 Prologue 1:05
23 Boys on the River 3:09
24 The Chase / Helenka's Arrival 2:17
25 Tomik and the Thief / Arrival at the Manor (https://youtu.be/E8DMR1p0luo?t=16s) 3:04
26 Traitor! 2:22
27 Zuzka and Slavek's Plan 2:06
28 Magdalena's Song (feat. Terezie Brzkov�) (http://www.mediafire.com/file/3qo86ii69r5rigq/28_Kluci_na_%C5%99ece_-_Magdalena%27s_Song.mp3) 2:49
29 The Great Battle at the River 9:13
30 Concert for Zuzka 2:34
Měs�c nad řekou / The Moon Over the River
Czechoslovakia, 1953
31 Opening Titles (http://www.mediafire.com/file/dx2bz7d4o485put/31_M%C4%9Bs%C3%ADc_nad_%C5%99ekou_-_Opening_Titles.mp3) 2:20
32 The Moon Over the River (Prologue) (feat. Zdeněk Štěp�nek) 1:40
33 Suite (Fanfare / Mrs. Hlubinova / Room with a View / Night) 1:29
34 Finale 2:34
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO)
Conducted by Milivoj Uzelac
Bonus Tracks
35 Hr�tky s čertem - Lucius in Trouble 1:43
36 Hr�tky s čertem - Playing with the Devils (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q81eiKCDfo) (feat. Josef Bek, Stanislav Neumann & František Filipovsk�) 2:12
37 Dařbuj�n a Pandrhola - God, Devil and Death (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_pXJZVc3oU) 1:28
38 Dařbuj�n a Pandrhola - Sausage Trees 2:06
39 Kluci na řece - Sneak into the Manor / Escape 3:18
40 Kluci na řece - Funfair 2:27
41 Kluci na řece - Tomik and Helenka 3:54
42 Kluci na řece - Pindulinka's Plan / Tomik's Harmonica / Attack on Timtelo's Shop 2:50
43 Kluci na řece - Timtelo and the Boys 1:16
Total Time: 1:32:33
Those who're interested may also check out Vol. 1 (Thread 219030) & Vol. 3 (Thread 220862)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/b3tdbhn52xwgc47/Ji%25C5%2599%25C3%25AD_Srnka_Film_Music_Collection _Vol._2_%25282017%2529_%255B%2540Maxwill%255D.rar/file
Enjoy and don't forget to rep/like :)
Jiř� Srnka Biography
Another in many respects ground-breaking protagonist of Czech film music was Jiř� Srnka (1907–1982), who worked in film for a very long time, more than forty years. He studied violin and composition at the Prague Conservatory,
then continued composition in the master class of V�tězslav Nov�k and the quarter-tone class of Alois H�ba. He found an important place for his talents initially as a violinist and then as a composer, at the side of Jaroslav Ježek in the orchestra of
the Liberated Theatre. Thanks to this position he also gained his first commission for a film – a short about Czech aviators titled Dejte n�m kř�dla [Give us Wings], for which Srnka wrote the music in just one day. During his career he then created music for more than seventy full-length feature films and for many television dramas and serials. In his work we find extensive symphonic scores, but he had a greater affinity with experimental music and also notched up an impressive number of successful song hits.
During the Second World War under German occupation Czech film followed a strongly nationally orientated line, turning more often (as a result of censorship) to history or to idyllic rural settings. Among the most significant films that Srnka wrote music for in this period we might mention for example the romantic Ohniv� l�to [Fiery Summer] by the directors František Č�p and V�clav Krška or the impressionistic Poh�dka m�je [Fairytale of May], one of the first fruits of Srnka’s long collaboration with the leading director Otakar V�vra. Srnka worked with V�vra on other very successful movies. In the titles Rozina sebranec [Rozina the Bastard], shot during the war but completed deliberately slowly in an effort to avoid the censor with a view to a premiere following liberation, and in the wartime Nezbedn� bakal�ř [The Naughty Bachelor], Srnka established himself as an outstanding composer for films with historical themes, while in V�vra’s eponymous movie adaptation of Karel Čapek’s novel Krakatit, symbolically warning against the nuclear threat, Srnka offers a score that prefigures microtonal and sonoristic experimental musical approaches for the sci-fi genre.
The harshest period of socialist totalitarianism, i.e. after the Communist Party putsch in Czechoslovakia in 1948 and above all the first half of the 1950s, had a very negative effect on Czechoslovak art as a whole. Official art succumbed to ideological dictate. In film we find a predominance of two-dimensional Jiř� Srnka schematic stories full of propagandistic enthusiasm for building communism and the fight against the decadent bourgeois West. While involved in several films of this kind, Srnka also contributed to films of essentially higher quality, such as V�vra’s Něm� barik�da [The Dum Barricade] (1949) about the dramatic events of the Prague Uprising in May 1945 or Kršek’s film adaptation of Fr�ňa Šr�mek’s famous play Měs�c nad řekou [The Moon over the River] (1953). The music for The Moon over the River became one of the best-known of Srnka’s works and the composer reworked it into a suite that was successful on concern podiums. In the 1960s the centre of gravity of Srnka’s work shifted to music for stage, but primarily in collaboration with Otakar V�vra, he produced a number of other very important film scores, for films based on the works of the poet František Hrub�n – Zlat� reneta [The Golden Rennet] (1963) and Romance pro kř�dlovku [Romance for Bugle] (1966) and then for the harrowing historical drama about witch hunting Kladivo na čarodějnice [Hammer for Witches] adapted from the novel by V�clav Kaplick�. In The Golden Rennet in particular Srnka moved the furthest from his earlier more lyrical idioms and his music once again showed a proximity to contemporary trends in avant-garde music, serialism and work with innovative timbres and microtones.
In short, Srnka represented the type of composer who constantly developed and so contributed strikingly to the qualitative progress of Czech film music.
Awards
• National Award (N�rodn� cena) for the film score to Ohniv� l�to (1940)
• State Award (St�tn� cena) for the film score to Něm� barik�da (1949)
• State Award (St�tn� cena) for Film Music (1958)
• State Award II st. (Laure�t st�tn� ceny II. st.) for the film score to Měs�c nad řekou (1954)
• Title "Zasloužil� umělec" (Deserved Artist)
Hr�tky s čertem / Playing with the Devil / Spielen mit dem Teufel
Czechoslovakia, 1956
01 Opening Titles (http://www.mediafire.com/file/gffo7fuchhz2nsj/01_Hr%C3%A1tky_s_%C4%8Dertem_-_Opening_Titles.mp3) 2:10
02 Martin Kab�t's Song (feat. Josef Bek) / Lucius's Song (feat. Josef Vinkl�ř) 1:44
03 Suitors March (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwqvrUyVaFg) / The King of Princess Disperanda (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAP5fwLglKA) 1:58
04 Father Scholastikus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fVrJtz4DMQ) 1:51
05 K�ca's Song (feat. Eva Klep�čov�) 1:38
06 Lucius Tempts Scholastikus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSQLVPPZPq0) 2:52
07 The Devil's March 1:09
08 Wedding Procession and Turmoil 1:38
09 Angel Theophil (https://youtu.be/mSQLVPPZPq0?t=8m9s) / The Lovers 1:25
10 Finale 0:41
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO)
Conducted by František Belf�n
Dařbuj�n a Pandrhola / Darbujan and Pandrhola / Gevatter Tod
Czechoslovakia, 1959
11 Opening Titles (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQHf9PTaNXc) 1:52
12 Prologue 1:42
13 Pandrhola Appears (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HHp63mHfuM) / Darbujan Gets Chased 1:18
14 A New Morning 0:41
15 Pandrhola's Theme (https://youtu.be/L2dD_kAL1a0?t=8s) 0:46
16 Tavern Dance / Darbujan's Solo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6gPZjpU04k) (feat. Jiř� Sov�k) 1:34
17 The River of Beer 1:48
18 The Oxen Carriage 2:03
19 Feeding Pandrhola (https://youtu.be/qFTFZ-sNNoI?t=1m8s) / Pandrhola is Angry (https://youtu.be/UQom9u7aS_A?t=15s) 2:39
20 End Titles 1:00
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO)
Conducted by František Belf�n
Kluci na řece / Knaben am Fluss / Boys on the River
Czechoslovakia, 1944
21 Opening Titles 2:08
22 Prologue 1:05
23 Boys on the River 3:09
24 The Chase / Helenka's Arrival 2:17
25 Tomik and the Thief / Arrival at the Manor (https://youtu.be/E8DMR1p0luo?t=16s) 3:04
26 Traitor! 2:22
27 Zuzka and Slavek's Plan 2:06
28 Magdalena's Song (feat. Terezie Brzkov�) (http://www.mediafire.com/file/3qo86ii69r5rigq/28_Kluci_na_%C5%99ece_-_Magdalena%27s_Song.mp3) 2:49
29 The Great Battle at the River 9:13
30 Concert for Zuzka 2:34
Měs�c nad řekou / The Moon Over the River
Czechoslovakia, 1953
31 Opening Titles (http://www.mediafire.com/file/dx2bz7d4o485put/31_M%C4%9Bs%C3%ADc_nad_%C5%99ekou_-_Opening_Titles.mp3) 2:20
32 The Moon Over the River (Prologue) (feat. Zdeněk Štěp�nek) 1:40
33 Suite (Fanfare / Mrs. Hlubinova / Room with a View / Night) 1:29
34 Finale 2:34
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO)
Conducted by Milivoj Uzelac
Bonus Tracks
35 Hr�tky s čertem - Lucius in Trouble 1:43
36 Hr�tky s čertem - Playing with the Devils (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q81eiKCDfo) (feat. Josef Bek, Stanislav Neumann & František Filipovsk�) 2:12
37 Dařbuj�n a Pandrhola - God, Devil and Death (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_pXJZVc3oU) 1:28
38 Dařbuj�n a Pandrhola - Sausage Trees 2:06
39 Kluci na řece - Sneak into the Manor / Escape 3:18
40 Kluci na řece - Funfair 2:27
41 Kluci na řece - Tomik and Helenka 3:54
42 Kluci na řece - Pindulinka's Plan / Tomik's Harmonica / Attack on Timtelo's Shop 2:50
43 Kluci na řece - Timtelo and the Boys 1:16
Total Time: 1:32:33
Those who're interested may also check out Vol. 1 (Thread 219030) & Vol. 3 (Thread 220862)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/b3tdbhn52xwgc47/Ji%25C5%2599%25C3%25AD_Srnka_Film_Music_Collection _Vol._2_%25282017%2529_%255B%2540Maxwill%255D.rar/file
Enjoy and don't forget to rep/like :)