Magdalena Kožená, Graham Johnson - Love Songs: Dvořák, Janáček, Martinů (2000)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 251 Mb | Total time: 67:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | 463 472-2 | Recorded: 1998
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 251 Mb | Total time: 67:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | 463 472-2 | Recorded: 1998
Dvorák's Love Songs were drawn from his early composition Cypresses, a set of 18 songs set to the poetry of Gustav Pfleger-Moravsky. The texts are pretty much typical of 19th century love poems, while Dvorák's music is surprisingly commonplace for a composer of such rich melodic gifts. The first few measures of New Miniatures instantly identify them as being written by Martinu, with their spiky harmonies and syncopated rhythms. Indeed, it's these rarely heard songs that take up the majority of this disc, a fortunate thing for us and for this strangely underperformed major 20th-century composer.