This year we are commemorating several anniversaries of French composers – including 200 years since the birth of César Franck, 160 years since the birth of Claude Debussy and 60 years since the death of Jacques Ibert. We have therefore decided to compile an evening of their songs and entrust them to the best Czech… Read More »In Colours of France (Sibera & Janál & Košárek)
France and its culture have influenced many artists, writers and composers. In this concert, we will present six works for which their authors found inspiration in French literature – Renaissance, contemporary or even cookery. For this concert, a new work has also been commissioned from the young Czech composer Pavel Duda on a text by… Read More »With a Taste of France (Troupová & Hrochová & Dušek)
Many composers constantly surprise us with their works. Many of them are familiar to us, but there are certainly forgotten gems waiting to be discovered. The songs of this year’s jubilarians Igor Stravinsky (140th anniversary of his birth), Arthur Honegger (130th anniversary of his birth), Darius Milhaud (130th anniversary of his birth) or Zoltán Kodály… Read More »Known Unknowns (Hrochová & Červinek & Stehlík)
On 16 October 1912, a major work of the 20th century was premiered in Berlin: the Pierrot Lunaire cycle by Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg. We will perform it on the day exactly 110 years later and complement the concert with a cycle by Alexander Zemlinsky, a friend and great promoter of Schoenberg’s music. For this… Read More »In the Intoxicating Glow of the Moon (Troupová & Šembera & Louženský et al.)
Just a few days before the national holiday we present a concert of Czech composers on folk poetry texts and important Czech poets Jaroslav Seifert and Vítězslav Nezval. The whole concert is all the more solemn because the performance of works by all of the featured composers will commemorate their important anniversaries this year. K.… Read More »Under the Czech Sky (Troupová & Hilscherová & Janál & Stehlík & Dušek)
For this very intimate concert in December we have chosen songs and canzonettas by the important Czech composers of the Classical and early Romantic periods, Jiří Antonín Benda (300 years since his birth) and Jan Ladislav Dusík (210 years since his death). The concert will be complemented by Canzonettas by Franz Joseph Haydn, whose birth… Read More »Love’s Pleasure and Sorrow (Troupová & Matějová)
Atrium in cooperation with Lieder Company would like to invite you to an extraordinary concert of song cycles.Ester Kosar (mezzo-soprano) and Nikola Uramová (soprano) together with pianist Jan Dušek will delight you with the charm of European romantic authors. They will try to introduce you to the genre of song as one of the basic… Read More »The Depths of Romanticism Songs – Uramová & Kosar & Dušek
Music of Persecuted Composers The third installment of the series of musical stops for the exhibition project Sacred Art in Unholy Times. Irena Troupová, a leading Czech soprano of international renown, will present, accompanied by Jan Dušek on the piano, works by composers such as Pavel Haas, Viktor Ullmann, Ervin Schulhoff and Hans Winterberg, whose… Read More »Schließe Deine Augen zu | Close Your Eyes – Troupová & Dušek
The Lieder Company Prague in cooperation with Salsita decided to support meaningful charity projects through regular benefit concerts. For their February concert they chose the humanitarian project Itibo, a medical facility in the south-western part of Kenya, which operates under the auspices of the non-governmental humanitarian organization ADRA, o.p.s. The concert will feature members of the Lieder… Read More »Benefit Concert for Itibo – Sibera & Holub & Červinek & Janál & Dušek
Programme: Selected songs and cycles by Giuseppe Verdi, Vincenzo Bellini, Richard Wagner, and Giacomo Puccini. Performers: There are composers we have inherently associated with a certain genre. Some of them are linked to opera in this way and their other works are often overlooked. For this concert, the Lieder Company Prague has chosen works by… Read More »Opera Masters‘ Songs – Sibera & Hrochová & Dušek
TROUPOVÁ & HOLUB & HÄRTELOVÁ
Benjamin Britten, Louis Vierne, Sylva Smejkalová, and others
TROUPOVÁ & HILSCHEROVÁ & JEŽEK & SÍTKOVÁ
Norbert Kubát, Jaromír Herle, Vojtěch Adalbert Říhovský, Leoš Janáček, Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann, Jan Hanuš, Luboš Sluka, Olga Ježková, and Jan Bernátek
