{"id":492,"date":"2025-06-30T23:16:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T23:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vlblaha.cz\/?page_id=492"},"modified":"2025-06-30T23:21:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T23:21:38","slug":"kritiky","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/vlblaha.cz\/en\/kritiky\/","title":{"rendered":"Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Concert Review: New York Carnegie Hall Debut For Vladislav Blaha,\nClassical Guitarist<\/p>

On November 17th, the New York classical guitar community was treated to a rare\nconcert appearance by the classical guitar virtuoso from the Czech Republic, Vladislav\nBlaha. Mr. Blaha performed a two hour program commemorating the 25th Anniversary of\nthe Velvet Revolution, a historic turning point in that nation's history during the later part\nof the 20th century. The evening's performance consisted of a fine mix of compositions by Czech composers\nMilan Tesar; Leos Janacek; Antonin Tucapsky and Stepan Rak. This program was further\nsupplemented by works of Jorge Morel (Argentina-USA), Nikita Koshkin (Russia), Manuel\nde Falla (Spain), John W. Duarte (Great Britain) and Carlos Jobim (Brasil), the later\npresented as an encore selection.<\/p>

Mr. Blaha, a resident of Brno in the Czech Republic, brilliantly performed each\ncomposition flawlessly, without the visual distractions (to the audience) of written music,\nmusic stands nor microphones. As part of Carnegie Hall's world class reputation as a\nclassical music venue, the Weill Recital Hall is as acoustically perfect as the most\ndiscriminating artist could desire. Absence of aural distractions further enhanced the\nperformance. Any slight retuning of the strings was done in between songs and was\naccomplished in no more than several seconds, a testament to the quality of the\ninstrument. As an interesting side note, Mr. Blaha performed on one of the new double-top\nclassical guitars equipped with Savarez strings built by Lubos Naprstek originally from\nthe Czech Republic, presently living and building finely crafted instruments in his\nHamburg NJ shop. Mr. Naprstek is rapidly gaining a solid reputation as one of the\nsuccessful newer builders of high quality upscale classical guitars. The sonority, tone\nand projection of this particular guitar was utilized to its fullest potential in the hands of\nVladislav Blaha; and in turn, brought out the most subtle dynamics of this master's\ntouch. Mr. Blaha, at 57, holds a unique position in the international classical guitar community.\nBeing relatively youthful, he is able to attract the much-sought-after younger age\ndemographic of both student and classical guitar enthusiast, and yet he is old enough to\nbe perceived as a senior master of both the instrument as well as the idiom.\nI sincerely hope that New York City will host a return engagement on any future US tours\nundertaken by Mr. Blaha.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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He mastered enormous technical requirements and at the same time perfect musical expression full of sonic refinements.
<\/em>G.Hontheim-Zpr\u00e1va o\u00a0Mezin\u00e1rodn\u00edm kytarov\u00e9m symposiu Iserlohn <\/strong><\/p>

Anton\u00edn Tu\u010dapsk\u00fd dedicated the Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra to Vladislav Bl\u00e1ha. Bl\u00e1ha played the technically very demanding solo passages with great concentration and at the same time with insight and ease.
Hudebn\u00ed rozhledy, \/Koncert s\u00a0Filharmoni\u00ed Brno\/ <\/strong><\/p>

The duo Vladislav Bl\u00e1ha (guitar) and Jarom\u00edr Z\u00e1me\u010dn\u00edk (accordion) played with such a brilliant sense of harmony that the music left the audience spellbound, asking for even more songs.
USA, \u010dasopis Soundboard, No. 1, Vol. XXXIV, Jim Skinger.<\/strong><\/p>

\u2026 What amazing agility and at the same time admirable performance! \u2026
Pascal Oriot, Katal\u00e1nsk\u00e9 noviny: Koncert Vladislava Bl\u00e1hy v\u00a0Perpignan, Francie<\/strong><\/p>

An evening featuring one of the best guitarists..., who gave an impressive recital. I look forward to hearing Bl\u00e1ha again in London soon.\"
Anglie, \u010dasopis Musical Opinion Robert Mathew Walker, <\/strong><\/p>

Vladislav Bl\u00e1ha gave a remarkable performance.\u201d (concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London)
<\/em>Anglie,\u00a0 \u010dasopis Classical Guitar Magazine<\/strong><\/p>

\"Bl\u00e1ha is among the best of the best among the group of exceptional guitarists today.\"
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Kritiky Debut Vladislava Blahy v newyorsk\u00e9 Carnegie Hall, klasick\u00e9ho kytaristy od Billa Turnera, NARAS-NY Chapter \/vedouc\u00ed nahr\u00e1vac\u00edch studi\u00ed NARAS, New York\/ Dne 17. listopadu se newyorsk\u00e1 klasick\u00e1 kytarov\u00e1 komunita do\u010dkala vz\u00e1cn\u00e9ho koncertn\u00edho vystoupen\u00ed klasick\u00e9ho kytarov\u00e9ho virtuosa z \u010cesk\u00e9 republiky, Vladislava Blahy. Pan Blaha p\u0159edvedl dvouhodinov\u00fd program na po\u010dest v\u00fdro\u010d\u00ed Sametov\u00e9 revoluce, historick\u00e9ho zvratu v historii […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-492","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vlblaha.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vlblaha.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vlblaha.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vlblaha.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vlblaha.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/vlblaha.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"http:\/\/vlblaha.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/492\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vlblaha.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}