IDAGIO | Sparks from Ashes - songs by Dvořák, Kaprálová, Bartók and Křička 0095115233825

Featuring

Nicky Spence
Dylan Perez
Vítězslava Kaprálová
Antonín Dvořák
Béla Bartók
Jaroslav Kricka

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Composer Biography

Béla Bartók's profound enthusiasm for folksong began in 1904 after hearing a nursemaid sing a simple melody while he was on holiday in Slovakia.

Composer Biography

Vítězslava Kaprálová, a Moravian composer, had a tragically short career, dying from tuberculosis in 1940 at the age of 25, shortly after marrying journalist and writer Jiří Mucha.

Composition History

Kaprálová's song "Waving Farewell" (Sbohem a Šáteček) is a heartfelt farewell to Prague, written in 1937 as she moved to Paris to study with Bohuslav Martinů.

Composition History

Dvořák's song cycle Cypresses, comprising eighteen songs, was the longest such cycle in the Czech tradition at the time of its composition in 1865.

Composition History

Bartók's Village Scenes, published in 1924, were dedicated to his second wife, Ditta Pásztory, and the focus on a folk wedding and a lullaby parallels events in his life at the time.

Composer Biography

Antonín Dvořák, after graduating from the Prague Organ School in 1859, chose a precarious freelance career as a viola player and music teacher instead of a secure position as an organist or choirmaster.

Composition History

Dvořák's Cypresses cycle is believed to have been inspired by his unrequited love for Josefina Čermáková, an actress he taught, and he later described them as 'love songs'.