A Summer's Tale (Suk)

Structure and character

There are five movements:

1. Voices of Life and Consolation
2. Midday
3. Blind Musicians
4. In the Power of Phantoms
5. Night.

A performance typically takes one hour.

Rob Cowan has described the work as Scrianbinesque and found in it a foreshadowing of Shostakovich's orchestration.

Performance and recording

The work received its premiere in 1909, and was initially coolly received – several critics charged it with being impressionistic.