FISYO - The Film Symphony Orchestra Zdenek Liska Archives, Vol. 2 - Music To Films By Frantisek Vlacil

The second album of the collection "Zdenek Liska Archives" brings music from Frantisek Vlacil's films Fire on Potato Fields (1976) and The Legend of the Silver Fir (1973). Both recordings come from Liska's private audio-tape archive. These are the only two examples of the extensive collaboration of Zdenek Liska with Frantisek Vlacil that have been found in his archive. However, they mark a new trajectory in Vlacil's filmmaking, echoed in the Liska's approach to the film score. Film critic Petr Gajdosik, author of the album's liner notes, says: "If, up until then, Vlacil 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 it's parallel in Liska'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."