The radio show and music is still possible to listen to on the link below:
One can say that this is a part of the Award too: Radio broadcast of Mladen Tarbuk's music in the radio show "Paths of Croatian Music" Putovi hrvatske glazbe. You can listen to 4 compositions by Mladen Tarbuk that received the award "Josip Štolcer Slavenski": Quatre epigrammes des temps (2019.), 4 Estancias (2012), Wailing Jerusalem (2014.), Dreamers/excerpt (2001.) ... See more

Svibanj je mjesec u kojem se obilježava rodjendan skladatelja Josipa Štolcera Slavenskog - već 50 godina postoji nagrada koja nosi njegovo ime, a koja se dodjeljuje za najbolju skladbu nastalu u protekloj godini. U emisiji se osvrćemo kratko na neke detalje iz povijesti ugledne nagrade, te preds... ... See more

Jako sam počašćen i sretan jer mi je po peti puta uručena hrvatska glazbena nagrada za najbolju skladbu "Josip Štolcer Slavenski", ovoga puta za najbolju skladbu 2019. godine "Quatre épigrammes de temps" za komorni sastav flaute, klarineti, udaraljke, klavir, violina i violončelo.
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I am very honoured and happy for receiving Croatian award for achievements in music "Josip Štolcer Slavenski" for the fifth time! I was awarded for the composition "Quatre épigrammes de temps" for a chamber ensemble of flutes, clarinettes, percussions, violin and cello.

https://czk-cakovec.hr/mladen-tarbuk-laureat-nagrade-grada-cakovca-josip-stolcer-savenski-za-2019-godinu/?fbclid=IwAR0uKAYHQLcWmGQ9ox0FVw2ge0xK_XNctVAtCnE3Q8doxQDjvaU8gcF9ndY ... See more

CENTAR ZA KULTURU ČAKOVEC Mladen Tarbuk laureat Nagrade Grada Čakovca "Josip Štolcer Slavenski" za 2019. godinu Ocjenjivački sud Nagrade Grada Čakovca "Josip Štolcer Slavenski", u sastavu Iva Lovrec Štefanović, Trpimir... ... See more

Mladen Tarbuk

A great beginning of this year! I spent two beautiful weeks conducting in the capital of classical music - BUDAPEST. It is the city with the largest number of professional symphony orchestras in the world, and all of them are excellent and busy.

My first concert was at Erkel Theatre with one of the best and oldest orchestras in this part of the world - The Hungarian State Opera Symphonic Orchestra. I am so grateful to the director of Hungarian State Opera, my great colleague, conductor Kocsár Balázs Zenekari Árok for giving me this wonderful opportunity to work with them. The program was Bizet - Shchedrin Carmen Suite, and in the second part, Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances. (Several highlights from the general rehearsal can be seen and heard in the videos on this page.)

The second concert I conducted in Budapest was played by the excellent MAV Symphony Orchestra. The program featured two idylls, one by Croatian composer Bersa, and another by Wagner. Between the Idylls, we played Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana and Bartok's 3rd Piano Concerto, with Szőcs Kristóf as a soloist. He is a very talented young pianist, a newcomer about whom we will hear a lot in the future. As an encore, we added Bartok's Rumanian Dances. The orchestra responded to my suggestions with refined musicality and gentle, but full sound, appropriate for this idyllic program. ... See more

The beautiful Siegfried Idyll, dedicated by Wagner to his wife Cosima, was perfectly understood by Budapest's MAV Symphony Orchestra players. I enjoyed very much working with them on refined shaping of melodic lines, as well as on precise dynamic to create the chamber-music atmosphere of this delicate piece. ... See more

In this excerpt of the famous piece by Mascagni, one can notice highly cultivated sound of strings, so typical for the best Hungarian orchestras such as the MAV Symphony Orchestra.