{"id":5719,"date":"2023-10-10T16:12:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T14:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liedercompany.cz\/uncategorized\/strings-suit-songs-on-22nd-october\/"},"modified":"2024-01-21T15:54:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T14:54:37","slug":"strings-suit-songs-on-22nd-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liedercompany.cz\/en\/article\/strings-suit-songs-on-22nd-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Strings suit songs on 22nd October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At the next concert we will present compositions for voice and string quartet. The concert will take place in the extremely pleasant space of Club Salsita<\/a>, which has been very popular with our listeners and performers at past concerts, on Sunday 22 October at 7.30 pm. It will feature soprano Irena Troupov\u00e1, mezzo-soprano Jana Hrochov\u00e1 and the Graffe Quartet from Brno.<\/p>\n\n

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In addition to works by Respighi, Hindemith and Ullmann, the concert will also feature two world premieres<\/strong> for the evening’s performers by composer Terezie \u0160varcov\u00e1 and composer Milo\u0161 \u0160t\u011bdron. All songs will be performed in their original languages and will be accompanied by Czech subtitles.<\/p>\n\n

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The programme, although it may not look like it at first glance, is very much interconnected in style, content and with regard to the similar circumstances of the creation of some of the works. The opening piece is the famous Il tramonto<\/em> by Ottorino Respighi<\/strong>, who is considered the most popular Italian composer after Puccini. This 1914 work, described by the composer as a Poemetto lyrico, sets to music in a haunting and emotional way an Italian translation of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem about the relationship between lovers, one of whom dies and the other must live on. In it, a string quartet not only accompanies but also musically comments on the plot. Respighi, himself a fine violinist and violist, works the combination of voice and quartet to great effect, using the characteristic colours of each position to enhance the impact of what has become one of his most frequently performed vocal works.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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The next piece on the programme is the cycle Melancholy, Op. 13<\/em> by the German composer, violinist and violist Paul Hindemith<\/strong>, in which he turns to the profound poems of Christian Morgenstern. The cycle was composed over a relatively long period (1917-19) during the First World War, when Hindemith was at the front. It was there that the dedicatee of the cycle, Karl K\u00f6hler, a very close friend of Hindemith, died. In the cycle we can perceive the transition of the author’s musical language from the late romantic to a more haunting and at times even nihilistic expression, which perfectly matches the chosen poems. Interestingly, although the cycle was premiered in 1919, it remained virtually unknown and was only published in print in 1994.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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