Pan (Symphonic Poem) Op. 43 (1910) by Vitězslav Novák.
Conducted by Zdenek Bilek with the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra.
I. Prolog (Prologue) - 00:00
II. Hory (Mountains) - 7:59
III. More (Sea) - 17:16
IV. Les (Forest) - 27:33
V. Zena (Woman) - 39:04
The symphonic poem Pan, originally written for piano, is in five movements. It opens with a Prologue, an evocation of the spirit of the ancientgod, delicately conjured up in a telling use of the orchestra, in which the piccolo and then the flute suggest the shepherd pipes, rather as if Debussy had been born and bred in the same country and studied with Dvorák, never venturing to Paris. The rarefied air of the mountains is suggested in the opening of the motivically related second movement, leading to music of greater majesty, but ending as it began. The third movement, Sea, marked with some originality Allegro spumante, suits the music to the direction, a romantic picture, again united to what has gone before by its thematic material. The next movement opens in the stillness of the forest, recalling the first bars of the whole work. Pan ends in fernale caprice, impetuous in its opening, then briefly and sweetly pleasing, moving forward to a swirling tarantelle, tantalisingly introduced by the woodwind, but bringing moments of respite and nostalgic reminiscences of what has passed. The movement brings to aserene and tranquil end a work of notable thematic unity, a sensuous evocation of nature.
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