Songs (Pisne).Vitezslava Kapralova Songs (Pisne) Dana Buresova--soprano, Timothy Cheek--piano, Magda Caslavska--flute, members of the Herold Quartet: Petr Zdvihal, JanValta--violins, David Havelik--cello. Production: Petr Vit. Text: Eng., Ger., French, Czech, recorded: 7/2003, Studio Domovina, Prague. Published: 2003. TT: 70:13. DDD DDD Direct Distance Dialing DDD Digital/Digital/Digital (audio CD format, recording/mixing/mastering) DDD Degenerative Disc Disease DDD Domain Driven Design DDD Data Display Debugger (GNU Project) . 1 CD Supraphon SU 3752-2 231 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This complete performance of the songs of Vitezslava Kapralova presents her song legacy as a surprisingly consistent whole. It is a world that is exceedingly fragile and at the same time moving in its honesty and vulnerability. The poetic texts used are by various different authors (Seifert, Nezval, Hora ho·ra also ho·rah n. A traditional round dance of Romania and Israel. [Modern Hebrew h , Sramek, Carek, Kricka and others), but they have affinities--they speak of grief, longing, farewells, solitude, the irreversible irreversible (ir´ēvur´seb  l),adj incapable of being reversed or returned to the original state. flow of time. It is quite extraordinary how despite her youth Kapralova managed to imprint each song with a perfect musical form and bring to them all a touch of limpid musical poetry. They are all characterised by a pure and mature musical idiom that undergoes a certain development, yet retains a sympathetic individuality. Despite all modernity the melodic me·lod·ic adj. Of, relating to, or containing melody. me·lod  i·cal·ly adv. line sounds so natural
that no other resolution seems possible. The piano accompaniments
complete and enhance the atmosphere of the songs with extraordinary
sensitivity. Kapralova makes only minimal use of onomatopoeic on·o·mat·o·poe·ia n. The formation or use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. , programmatic pro·gram·mat·ic adj. 1. Of, relating to, or having a program. 2. Following an overall plan or schedule: a step-by-step, programmatic approach to problem solving. 3. effects, and when she does it is always with ingenuity and musical wit (the bustle bus·tle 1 intr. & tr.v. bus·tled, bus·tling, bus·tles To move or cause to move energetically and busily. n. Excited and often noisy activity; a stir. of Jarni pouti [Spring Fair], the three different stylisations of bird songs in Koleda [Carol], Rodny kraj [Native Landscape] or in Pisen milostna [Love Song]). Dana Buresova sings the songs with perfect understanding and feeling. She has a very pleasant and balanced voice that seems to be completely ideal for this kind of music. The American pianist Timothy Cheek plays with an awareness that in Kapralova's music the piano part is not just an accompaniment but an equal element that needs to be thought out to the smallest detail. And he manages it wonderfully. It should be noted that Cheek is a considerable expert on Kapralova's work and Czech culture in general (recently for example he published the excellent booklet Singing in Czech on Czech vocal pronunciation for English singers). Karla Hartl, the Czech translator of Cheek's accompanying text in the book-let, is the founder and president of the V. Kapralova Society in Toronto. Her contributions to the rediscovery Noun 1. rediscovery - the act of discovering again discovery, find, uncovering - the act of discovering something rediscovery n → redescubrimiento of Kapralova's music cannot be praised enough. If we add to all the excellent aspects of this CD its beautiful graphic design and lavish text, we can unhesitatingly rank it among the most important and innovative Czech projects in recent years. |
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