{"content":"\n    <div class=\"detail-content\">\n        \n        <strong>About work:</strong> <p>In Cikker´s up to now context works the latest composer´s work “Variations on Slovak folk song“ occupies a distinctive position; the essential inspirating as well as form-giving component is after a longer time again the folk song. But this orientation does not cause a significant break in the mentioned context  – the folklore inspiration, having played such an important role in Cikker´s younger creative period did achieve different forms in his later works. His look at life became deeper it was not any more sufficient for him a direct cheerful expression, optimism and spontaneousness through which he is forming the folklore in Slovak suite. Perhaps there is common only the imminent character through which the Variations were created – in the course of approximately two months there was achieved a definite shape of composition (finished in October 1970).<br />Cikker found himself again in a beauty of valubleness of simple folk demonstration which forced him means of art profession to set forth a respect to folk expression.<br />The thoughtful material of Variations forms the Slovak folk song from Bartók´s collection “That my heart“. Firstly Cikker gave it a choral framing but later on he was captured by richness of thoughts concerning the musical component – melody and also of text where changing of images and mood gives rise to a direct impulse for symphonical form-framing. The composition does not form a succession of passages where a chosen theme is changing by various ways of variations – its form is submitted to a subjective composer´s effort to go through the associationscaused by the song. Cikker by far does not look for the sources in material – musical vesture as in perception and expression of thoughts and sensitive substance of the elected proposition. The course of moods from the lyrical-meditative up to the most dramatized and tragical creates situations being essentially close and near to composer´s musical expression.</p><br>\n        <em>(Ľubomír Chalupka, in: commentary to the LP Opus 9112 0124, 1971.)</em><br>\n        <br>\n        \n\n        <p>\n                <p><strong>First performance in Slovakia</strong></p>\n                \n                \n                26.09.1971,\n                Bratislava Music Festival,\n                SK\n\n<br><span class=\"type\">Performers: </span>Slovak Philharmonic, Zdeněk Košler (dir.)\n                <br>\n\n\n            </p>\n    </div>\n"}