The first time I heard his pieces performed, I was surprised by a sort of simplicity about them. Even so, Milan Tesař manages to slip some kind of jazzy note here and there into that typically Czech harmonic transparency. I have actually learned a lot from his compositions because they are in a freer style, a more freely conceived music which is generally crowned with a catchy melody. Milan Tesař's music is performed in many countries around the world, and here in Paris he is well known. I have been playing his compositions, for example, in America and England since the time that his manuscripts started to be published. I program them into my concerts because I am looking for attractive repertoire. He is my professional colleague, and I hold only one thing against him: when he sends his music to me by mail, it stinks of cigarette smoke.
Vladimír Mikulka Guitarist
His compositions are very contemporary, if only for the fact that they oscillate between serious and popular music. They are neither in a purely classical or purely popular style. His compositions are very melodic and rhythmically interesting; Milan Tesař the composer literally scintillates with musical ideas. To put it simply, his music has gotten under my skin, in the good sense of the phrase. At the university where I teach in Germany, I recommend his music to my students, and they really enjoy playing it. Even there, his music is always a big success when it is performed, which gives me, as a patriot, a great deal of pleasure.
Jiří Jirmal Professor and composer
I play the pieces of professor Milan Tesař? because I like them. I choose my repertoire according to whether or not a piece has some emotional content. The emotional content of his pieces is very strong. He is a Czech composer, even if you cannot, at first hearing, identify some characteristic Czech melodic treatment in his work. It is, however, clearly present in his compositions, and in my opinion, he is well aware of it. Not for nothing did he name one of his albums Czech Colors.
Jaroslava Ježková Guitarist
Milan has arranged many tunes for me, and in a range of genres stretching from ragtime to classical. He has greatly widened the repertoire of the "light genre" for us guitarists. Which nobody ever did, nor do they do it today. He understands the guitar perfectly both from the standpoint of harmony and the the standpoint of the musician, and this is, it seems, his greatest trump.
Lenka Filipová Singer and guitarist
It is very difficult to characterize the music of Milan Tesař in it, you can hear blues, jazz, and folk songs, as well as the classical music which arches over the whole thing. I have never met with anything like it anywhere else. His compositions are made for live performing. Their Czechness intrigues me. Milan always says that when he is composing he bears in mind that it must be Czech music, and it must have a rhythmic foundation. And he truly succeeds in this. His music is very interesting, and I can say that I have had great success with it in my concerts.
Milan Zelenka Guitarist and professor
Notography

Signatures #2 Milan Tesař, Miroslav Nosek
Cover by Radu Tesaro
Scores created by Michal Šinka
KONVOJ, spol. s r.o., Brno
Records performed by Miroslav Nosek and Michal Šinka

Signatures #1 Milan Tesař, Miroslav Nosek
Cover by Radu Tesaro
KONVOJ, spol. s r.o., Brno
Records performed by:
Miroslav Nosek - no. 1-8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 18-20, 24, 25, 27
Barbora Priester - no. 21-23, 26
Jakub Šedivý - no. 25, 27
Klára Vytisková - no. 9, 12, 15-17, 26

Jazz Images 2 pour guitare Vladimír Mikulka présente ...
Editions Henry Lemoine, Paris
ISBN: 9790230971409

Promenade dans le temps Pièces pour guitare solo du XVI au XX siècle
Cesare Negri, Robert de Visée, Fernando Sor, Mauro Giuliani, Napoléon Coste, Milan Tesař
Editions Henry Lemoine, Paris
ISBN: 9790230972765

Divertimento pour 4 guitares Vladimír Mikulka présente ...
Editions Henry Lemoine, Paris
ISBN: 9790230962728

Pastoral / Song Eugenia Vladimír Mikulka présente ...
Editions Henry Lemoine, Paris
ISBN: 9790230962742

Three dances for 2 guitars Vladimír Mikulka présente ...
Editions Henry Lemoine, Paris
ISBN: 9790230960489

Jazz Images – 20 easy pieces for guitar Vladimír Mikulka présente ...
Editions Henry Lemoine, Paris
ISBN: 3327850252753

Album dvaceti kytarových skladeb Selection of 20 pieces from czech guitarist Milan Tesař
Editio Reflex
ISBN: 80900085717

Suite Pinocchio pour guitare de MILAN TESAR Vladimír Mikulka présente ...
Editions Henry Lemoine, Paris
ISBN: 9790230951272
Audio
Promenada v riu Portraits
00:02:59 | 7.04 MB
České kolority České kolority
00:01:18 | 1,19 MB
Scherzando Divertimento pro čtyři kytary
00:02:15 | 5,17 MB
Canzoneta Divertimento pro čtyři kytary
00:02:50 | 6,50 MB
Danza Divertimento pro čtyři kytary
00:01:54 | 4,38 MB
Allegro con brio Suite Perestroika (5 Capricen)
00:01:19 | 1,8 MB
Andante sostenuto Suite Perestroika (5 Capricen)
00:02:05 | 2,77 MB
Vivo con fuoco Suite Perestroika (5 Capricen)
00:00:58 | 1,37 MB
Andante sostenuto Suite Perestroika (5 Capricen)
00:02:47 | 3,66 MB
Andante Suite Perestroika (Suite E-Dur)
00:02:03 | 2,62 MB
Comodo Suite Perestroika (Suite E-Dur)
00:01:52 | 2,44 MB
Andantino Suite Perestroika (Suite E-Dur)
00:01:34 | 2,09 MB
Musical Convergence I (Adagio and Vivo Mockup)
00:04:12 | 7,7 MBMusical Convergence II (Introduction and Allegro Mockup)
00:04:21 | 7,98 MBSonet for G (for 4 guitars)
00:03:04 | 5,63 MBSonet for G Intro (for 4 guitars)
00:02:56 | 5,37 MBFantasia on an Old Austrian Song
00:05:07 | 11,7 MBII. věta z Divertimenta České kolority
00:02:53 | 2,65 MB
III. věta z Divertimenta České kolority
00:01:49 | 1,67 MB
Aby nás Pán Bůh miloval Lidové písničky
00:01:30 | 1,43 MB
Loučení, loučení Lidové písničky
00:02:26 | 2,24 MB
Allegro con motto Suite Perestroika (5 Capricen)
00:02:00 | 2,58 MB
Promenada v Riu Signatures #1
00:02:50 | 6,78 MB
Parafráze Signatures #1
00:02:24 | 5,77 MB
Miniatura 2 Signatures #1
00:03:09 | 7,56 MB
Miniatura 3 Signatures #1
00:01:35 | 6,78 MB
Čtyři v pěti Signatures #1
00:03:36 | 8,63 MB
Canzonetta Portraits
00:04:49 | 6.95 MB
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