16/12/2021 - Dita Rohmann & LUCIA DUCHOŇOVÁ AND THE VISEGRAD NATIONAL POEMS

16/12/2021 – Thuersday, 7pm

Prague castle - Spanish hall

Dita Rohmann & LUCIA DUCHOŇOVÁ AND THE VISEGRAD NATIONAL POEMS

The inaugural concert, Music of the Central European Region – V4 Countries

The Slovak opera singer Lucie Duchonova, whose album entitled Canto a Sevilla was nominated for the 2011 Grammy award, and Dita Rohmann, a Hungarian solo cellist who is also a tutor at the prestigious Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. The topic is the poetry of the national folk tones in the landscape, tradition and habits of the V4 countries.

LUCIA DUCHONOVA – mezzosoprano (SK)

DITTA ROHMANN – violoncello (HU)

WOJCIECH RODEK – conductor (PL)

LUBLIN H. WIENAWSKI PHILHAMONIC (PL)

Eugen Suchoň (1908–1993): Balladic Suite, Op. 9 

Henryk Mikolaj Górecki (1933–2010): Muzyka staropolska / Old Polish Music, Op. 24                             

Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904):  Silent Wood for violoncello and orchestra, Op. 68

Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904):  Rondo in G minor for violoncello and orchestra, Op. 94

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Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959): The Songs for One Page, H 302 (instrumentation for voice and orchestra by Jiří Teml)

Ivan Kurz (*1947):  Beauty, for mezzosoprano and orchestra (2012)

Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (1933-2020): Adagietto z Raju utraconego” for orchestra

Béla Bartók (1881–1945):  Pictures from Hungaria for orchestra, BB 51, 53, 55, 58

 (Encore) Sylve Bodorová: Ave Noëlle – Christmas Song for voice and grand orchestra (2003)

The magic of national tones and the treasury of folk melodics, all of this is folklore music. By singing it, creating it and writing it, people for centuries relieved the burden of their fates. It was often used to liberate them from fear or death, or just as a pastime. It became a source of inspiration for national epics: The Old Polish Music by N. Gorecky,Pictures from Hungaria by Bartok, the Balladic Suite by E. Suchon, the beautiful songs from the Czech and Moravian Highlands by B. Martinu, or even Beauty by Ivan Kurz. And having Wojciech Rodek conducting his philharmonic orchestra from Lublin? That’s synchronicity and symbiosis, enhanced with the collaboration with Dita Rohmann. Dvorak’s compositions for violoncello will be presented with the Slovak opera star Lucia Duchonova. Music of the Central European Region – V4 Countries also presents important authors of the 20th century and contemporary composers from these four countries.

Dramaturgy by Prof. Vaclav Riedlbauch (2016)