Praise to the Songs

Performers:

• Roman Janál – baryton
• Karel Košárek - klavír

Programme: 

• Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe, op. 48
  
• Maurice Ravel: Don Quichotte et Dulcinée
• Bohuslav Martinů: Selected arrangements of folk songs
• Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský: Selected arrangements of folk songs

With the chamber concert Praise to the Songs, its protagonists, the leading Czech baritone Roman Janál and the extraordinary pianist Karel Košárek, want to draw the attention of the audience to a genre that is often overlooked on concert stages: chamber song. One of the most iconic works is undoubtedly the song cycle Dichterliebe, i.e. The Poet's Love, by the German romantic Robert Schumann, set to the beautiful poems of Heinrich Heine. It will be heard in its entirety at the concert, as will Maurice Ravel's cycle Don Quichotte et Dulcinée. The second half of the concert will be devoted to folk songs, but not just any folk songs. Listeners will hear them in masterful arrangements for voice and piano from the pens of Bohuslav Martinů and Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský.