Bohuslav Martinů: Songs of the Vysočina-Highlands (Zpěvy o Vysočině), by Prague Philharmonic Choir, Jaroslav Brych

Bohuslav Martinů: Songs of the Vysočina-Highlands (Zpěvy o Vysočině)

by Prague Philharmonic Choir, Jaroslav Brych

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1.	Opening the Wells (Otvírání studánek / L’Eveil des sources), H. 354 With narration in French 20:08	buy track
2.	Opening the Wells (Otvírání studánek / L’Eveil des sources), H. 354 With narration in Czech 19:13	buy track
3.	Romance of the Dandelions (Romance z pampelišek / La Romance des pissenlits), H. 364 11:17	buy track
4.	Legend of the Smoke from Potato Fires (Legenda z dýmu bramborové nati / Légende de la fumée des feux de fanes de pommes de terre), H. 360 19:06	buy track
5.	Mikeš of the Mountains (Mikeš z hor / Mikeš des montagnes), H. 375 19:25	buy track

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“In the late 1950s, Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959) turned his mind to Moravian folk poetry - images of the Czech highlands where he grew up - and wrote four little cantatas with wistful names such as Romance of the Dandelions and Legend of Smoke from Potato Tops. The last one, Mikes of the Mountains, tells of a shepherd who saves his goats from a snowstorm. It all tastes of soil and nostalgia, but these are more than simple rustic tone paintings. Martinů instructed that they shouldn’t sound sentimental and he spliced the folksy choral passages with stark harmonies and off-kilter percussive stuff. Instrumentation includes accordion and “drumming on a chair” – the sounds creak, jolt, motor and soothe. The Prague choir gets the balance right: vivid character and resonant voices but never saccharine and rhythmically taut. The ensemble premieres the cantatas and it’s hard to imagine singing of more authority in Martinů’s music.” (The Gardian)

Awards: 4* by Le Monde de la Musique, 5 by Diapason, Recommended by Classica, Recommended by Répertoire

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released April 1, 2002

Prague Philharmonic Choir
Jaroslav Brych - conductor

Recorded in Prague, December, 2000.

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