Music to Films by František Vláčil (Archives Vol. 2) | Animal Music
Zdeněk Liška

Music to Films by František Vláčil (Archives Vol. 2)

The album will be released on July 25, 2025.

The second album of the collection "Zdeněk Liška Archives" brings music from František Vláčil's films Fire on Potato Fields (1976) and The Legend of the Silver Fir (1973). Both recordings come from Liška's private audio-tape archive. Of Zdeněk Liška's extensive collaboration with František Vláčil, only these two recordings have been found in his archive. And according to film critic Petr Gajdošík, these are films where Vláčil found a new way of expression, both in terms of filmmaking and in terms of musical collaboration with Zdeněk Liška: "If, up until then, he had mostly been focusing on historical material and stories from a distant past, he now worked with motifs and emotions gleaned from the present moment, and asks as pay close attention to his characters' inner experience. This development has its parallel in Liška's scores. Compared to their previous collaborations, these are more limited in scale and free of any ambition to create meaning, while at the same time they correspond with the dramatic and visual conception of the films and induce contemplation,"  writes Pavel Gajdošík in his liner notes. This album is the third title in our catalogue with Zdeněk Liška's scores. 

2025
ANI 140
 34,00 € 
Dým bramborové natě
(Zdeněk Liška)
Legenda o stříbrné jedli
(Zdeněk Liška)
Personnel and sound:

Dým bramborové natě (Fires on Potato Fields)

FISYO (The Film Symphony Orchestra)

Conductor: Štěpán Koníček

 

Legenda o stříbrné jedli (The Legend of the Silver Fir)

FISYO (The Film Symphony Orchestra)

Conductor: František Belfín

Kühn's Mixed Choir

Choirmaster: Pavel Kühn 

 

Digitalized from original tapes by Jiří Zobač

Curated, selected and compiled for this release by Petr Ostrouchov

Mastered by Pavel Karlík and cut to lacquer by Stanislav Tadra at Sono Vinyl Mastering

Cover design © Marek Pistora & Aleš Najbrt (Studio Najbrt), 2025

Photos from the films© František Uldrich, courtesy of his heirs and the National Film Archive

Photo of Zdeněk Liška by an unknown author, courtesy of Zdeněk Liška family

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