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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)
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Krakatit
Czechoslovakia, 1948
01 Main Titles (http://www.mediafire.com/file/81n1a87p3mh8kpr/01_Krakatit_-_Main_Titles.mp3) 1:45
02 Delirium (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkG6DkBIG5s) 2:34
03 Ride to Dr. Tomeš 2:03
04 Prokop Remembers / Return to the Laboratory 4:22
05 Escape From Balttin Palace 2:46
06 Fuse 2:37
07 Blowing Up the Laboratory / Tension in Balttin / Wilhelmina's Transformation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQvZaeNKn2w) 1:25
08 To the Origin (Finale) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cviyfWxJoE4) 1:25
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO)
Conducted by Otakar Pař�k
Něm� barik�da / The Silent Barricade / Die schweigende Barrikade / La Barricada Silenciosa / Milczaca Barykada
Czechoslovakia, 1949
09 Main Titles (http://www.mediafire.com/file/pzhib3cknhoah2b/09_N%C4%9Bm%C3%A1_barik%C3%A1da_-_Main_Titles.mp3) 1:47
10 Building the Barricade 3:14
11 The War is Over (Finale) 1:40
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO)
Conducted by Milivoj Uzelac
Dnes naposled / Today For the Last Time
Czechoslovakia, 1958
12 Violin Concerto 1:51
13 Mašek's Solo 1:07
14 Waltz of the Drunken (Exerpt) 0:20
15 Rendl's Plot 2:32
16 Taupe's Madness (http://www.mediafire.com/file/q7wh52w4k7qezay/16_Dnes_naposled_-_Taupe%27s_Madness.flac) 2:20
17 Mašek''s Suicide / Danda Leaves (Finale) 1:47
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO)
Conducted by František Belf�n & Milivoj Uzelac
Sny na neděli / Dreams for Sunday
Czechoslovakia, 1959
18 Main Titles (http://www.mediafire.com/file/41oulniu07m0jjj/18_Sny_na_ned%C4%9Bli_-_Main_Titles.mp3) 2:37
19 The Sanatorium (https://youtu.be/YMI5YrKuc44?t=13m51s) 1:10
20 Main Titles (Reprise) 2:10
21 The Lovers (https://youtu.be/YMI5YrKuc44?t=4m51s) 0:55
22 Strolling Through the Town 2:32
23 Life Goes On (Finale) 1:56
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO)
Conducted by František Belf�n
Punťa a čtyřl�stek / Punta and the Four-Leaf Clover
Czechoslovakia, 1955
24 Main Titles (http://www.mediafire.com/file/1at0xgbtur444a3/24_Pun%C5%A5a_a_%C4%8Dty%C5%99l%C3%ADstek_-_Main_Titles.mp3) 2:13
25 Escape 2:26
26 Puppy Punta (Finale) 0:54
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO)
Conducted by Milivoj Uzelac
Vlc� j�ma / Wolf Trap / Die Wolfsfalle / Pi�ge � loup / La tana del lupo / Wilcza jama / Vučja jama
Czechoslovakia, 1957
27 Approaching Train ~Introduction~ (http://www.mediafire.com/file/4bx9nf8553rbuxr/27_Vlc%C3%AD_j%C3%A1ma_-_Approaching_Train_%7EIntroduction%7E.mp3) 3:42
28 Depressed Jana / Panic 1:17
29 Klara's Funeral 1:20
Performance: Female Chorus
30 Jana Leaves (Finale) 0:29
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO)
Conducted by František Belf�n & Milivoj Uzelac
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Minulost Jany Kosinov� / Jana Kosinov�'s Past / Hanna Kosinas Vergangenheit
Czechoslovakia, 1940
31 Overture 2:07
32 Modrav� d�lky... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH-cgS73v6Q) 1:45
Lyrics: K. M. Wall� | Performance: M�la Spazierov�-Hezk�
33 Dance Music / Modrav� d�lky... (Instrumental) 2:50
34 Modrav� d�lky... (Finale) 1:36
Lyrics: K. M. Wall� | Performance: M�la Spazierov�-Hezk�
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Modr� z�voj / The Blue Veil / Der blaue Schleier
Czechoslovakia, 1941
35 Overture 1:40
36 Cello Concerto in B minor (A. Dvoř�k) 3:04
Original Music: Anton�n Dvoř�k | Performance: Prof. Ladislav Zelenka
37 Andalusie (Tango-Fandango) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P39PykK_HIk) 1:16
Lyrics: Zdeněk Němeček | Performance: Zdenka Milavcov�
38 Preparing the Dinner 1:42
39 The Final Waltz 1:01
Performed by Orchestr F.O.K. (Prague Symphony Orchestra)
Conducted by Otakar Pař�k
Bonus Tracks
40 Krakatit - Table Dance 0:46
41 Dnes naposled - Orchestra Rehearsal 0:52
42 Sny na neděli - Violin Concerto 1:29
43 Sny na neděli - Love Scene 1:42
44 Sny na neděli - Dance Footage 0:44
45 Sny na neděli - Halluzinations 0:56
46 Punťa a čtyřl�stek - The Gang Intervines 0:40
47 Vlc� j�ma - The Harmonium Song 2:13
Performance: Miroslav Doležal
48 Modr� z�voj - Andalusie (Reprise) 1:00
Lyrics: Zdeněk Němeček | Performance: Zdenka Milavcov�
49 Minulost Jany Kosinov� - Modrav� d�lky... (Original Version) 2:38
Lyrics: K. M. Wall� | Performance: Mila Spazierova-Hezka, Orchestr Jaroslava Maliny
50 Minulost Jany Kosinov� - Modrav� d�lky... (Swing Version) 3:45
Lyrics: K. M. Wall� | Performance: Světlana N�lepkov�, Pražsk� swingov� orchestr Jana Matouška
51 Minulost Jany Kosinov� - Modrav� d�lky... (Instrumental Jazz Version) 3:09
Performance: Ladislav Štaidl Orchestra, Felix Slov�ček (Sax)
52 Minulost Jany Kosinov� - Modrav� d�lky... (Quartet Version) 1:25
Lyrics: K. M. Wall� | Performance: Inkognito kvartet, Břevnovanka, Zdeněk Proch�zka (Conductor)
Total Time: 1:37:34
Those who're interested may also check out Vol. 1 (Thread 219030) & Vol. 2 (Thread 219916)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/uarxxjrwpxc1v8m/Ji%25C5%2599%25C3%25AD_Srnka_Film_Music_Collection _Vol._3_%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)
https://abload.de/img/krakatittheatricalposfhar4.jpghttps://abload.de/img/krakatitposter3paxi7.jpg
Krakatit
Czechoslovakia, 1948
01 Main Titles (http://www.mediafire.com/file/81n1a87p3mh8kpr/01_Krakatit_-_Main_Titles.mp3) 1:45
02 Delirium (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkG6DkBIG5s) 2:34
03 Ride to Dr. Tomeš 2:03
04 Prokop Remembers / Return to the Laboratory 4:22
05 Escape From Balttin Palace 2:46
06 Fuse 2:37
07 Blowing Up the Laboratory / Tension in Balttin / Wilhelmina's Transformation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQvZaeNKn2w) 1:25
08 To the Origin (Finale) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cviyfWxJoE4) 1:25
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO)
Conducted by Otakar Pař�k
Něm� barik�da / The Silent Barricade / Die schweigende Barrikade / La Barricada Silenciosa / Milczaca Barykada
Czechoslovakia, 1949
09 Main Titles (http://www.mediafire.com/file/pzhib3cknhoah2b/09_N%C4%9Bm%C3%A1_barik%C3%A1da_-_Main_Titles.mp3) 1:47
10 Building the Barricade 3:14
11 The War is Over (Finale) 1:40
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO)
Conducted by Milivoj Uzelac
Dnes naposled / Today For the Last Time
Czechoslovakia, 1958
12 Violin Concerto 1:51
13 Mašek's Solo 1:07
14 Waltz of the Drunken (Exerpt) 0:20
15 Rendl's Plot 2:32
16 Taupe's Madness (http://www.mediafire.com/file/q7wh52w4k7qezay/16_Dnes_naposled_-_Taupe%27s_Madness.flac) 2:20
17 Mašek''s Suicide / Danda Leaves (Finale) 1:47
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO)
Conducted by František Belf�n & Milivoj Uzelac
Sny na neděli / Dreams for Sunday
Czechoslovakia, 1959
18 Main Titles (http://www.mediafire.com/file/41oulniu07m0jjj/18_Sny_na_ned%C4%9Bli_-_Main_Titles.mp3) 2:37
19 The Sanatorium (https://youtu.be/YMI5YrKuc44?t=13m51s) 1:10
20 Main Titles (Reprise) 2:10
21 The Lovers (https://youtu.be/YMI5YrKuc44?t=4m51s) 0:55
22 Strolling Through the Town 2:32
23 Life Goes On (Finale) 1:56
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO)
Conducted by František Belf�n
Punťa a čtyřl�stek / Punta and the Four-Leaf Clover
Czechoslovakia, 1955
24 Main Titles (http://www.mediafire.com/file/1at0xgbtur444a3/24_Pun%C5%A5a_a_%C4%8Dty%C5%99l%C3%ADstek_-_Main_Titles.mp3) 2:13
25 Escape 2:26
26 Puppy Punta (Finale) 0:54
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO)
Conducted by Milivoj Uzelac
Vlc� j�ma / Wolf Trap / Die Wolfsfalle / Pi�ge � loup / La tana del lupo / Wilcza jama / Vučja jama
Czechoslovakia, 1957
27 Approaching Train ~Introduction~ (http://www.mediafire.com/file/4bx9nf8553rbuxr/27_Vlc%C3%AD_j%C3%A1ma_-_Approaching_Train_%7EIntroduction%7E.mp3) 3:42
28 Depressed Jana / Panic 1:17
29 Klara's Funeral 1:20
Performance: Female Chorus
30 Jana Leaves (Finale) 0:29
Performed by Filmov� symfonick� orchestr (FISYO)
Conducted by František Belf�n & Milivoj Uzelac
https://abload.de/img/minulostjanykosinovthgvazq.jpghttps://abload.de/img/111398w2b5z.jpg
Minulost Jany Kosinov� / Jana Kosinov�'s Past / Hanna Kosinas Vergangenheit
Czechoslovakia, 1940
31 Overture 2:07
32 Modrav� d�lky... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH-cgS73v6Q) 1:45
Lyrics: K. M. Wall� | Performance: M�la Spazierov�-Hezk�
33 Dance Music / Modrav� d�lky... (Instrumental) 2:50
34 Modrav� d�lky... (Finale) 1:36
Lyrics: K. M. Wall� | Performance: M�la Spazierov�-Hezk�
https://abload.de/img/modrzvojtheatricalposrqag0.jpghttps://abload.de/img/114560evxwf.jpg
Modr� z�voj / The Blue Veil / Der blaue Schleier
Czechoslovakia, 1941
35 Overture 1:40
36 Cello Concerto in B minor (A. Dvoř�k) 3:04
Original Music: Anton�n Dvoř�k | Performance: Prof. Ladislav Zelenka
37 Andalusie (Tango-Fandango) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P39PykK_HIk) 1:16
Lyrics: Zdeněk Němeček | Performance: Zdenka Milavcov�
38 Preparing the Dinner 1:42
39 The Final Waltz 1:01
Performed by Orchestr F.O.K. (Prague Symphony Orchestra)
Conducted by Otakar Pař�k
Bonus Tracks
40 Krakatit - Table Dance 0:46
41 Dnes naposled - Orchestra Rehearsal 0:52
42 Sny na neděli - Violin Concerto 1:29
43 Sny na neděli - Love Scene 1:42
44 Sny na neděli - Dance Footage 0:44
45 Sny na neděli - Halluzinations 0:56
46 Punťa a čtyřl�stek - The Gang Intervines 0:40
47 Vlc� j�ma - The Harmonium Song 2:13
Performance: Miroslav Doležal
48 Modr� z�voj - Andalusie (Reprise) 1:00
Lyrics: Zdeněk Němeček | Performance: Zdenka Milavcov�
49 Minulost Jany Kosinov� - Modrav� d�lky... (Original Version) 2:38
Lyrics: K. M. Wall� | Performance: Mila Spazierova-Hezka, Orchestr Jaroslava Maliny
50 Minulost Jany Kosinov� - Modrav� d�lky... (Swing Version) 3:45
Lyrics: K. M. Wall� | Performance: Světlana N�lepkov�, Pražsk� swingov� orchestr Jana Matouška
51 Minulost Jany Kosinov� - Modrav� d�lky... (Instrumental Jazz Version) 3:09
Performance: Ladislav Štaidl Orchestra, Felix Slov�ček (Sax)
52 Minulost Jany Kosinov� - Modrav� d�lky... (Quartet Version) 1:25
Lyrics: K. M. Wall� | Performance: Inkognito kvartet, Břevnovanka, Zdeněk Proch�zka (Conductor)
Total Time: 1:37:34
Those who're interested may also check out Vol. 1 (Thread 219030) & Vol. 2 (Thread 219916)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/uarxxjrwpxc1v8m/Ji%25C5%2599%25C3%25AD_Srnka_Film_Music_Collection _Vol._3_%25282017%2529_%255B%2540Maxwill%255D.rar/file
Enjoy and don't forget to rep/like :)