Simona Šaturová / soprano, Zemlinsky Quartet

Simona Šaturová / soprano
The Zemlinsky Quartet
František Souček, Petr Strižek / violin
Petr Holman / viola
Vladimir Fortin / cello

Program:
Bedrich Smetana
Evening songs (selection, ar. Martin Wiesner)
Antonin Dvorak
Love songs (selection, ar. Aleš Březina)
Leoš Janacek
Moravian folk poetry in songs (selection, ar. Vladimír Godár)
Leoš Janacek
Youth (arr. Kryštof Mařatka)
Bohuslav Martinů
Thésée, je respire (Ariadne's aria from the opera of the same name, ar. Martin Wiesner)
Bedrich Smetana
If I had something like that... (Mařenka's aria from the opera Prodaná věsta, ar. Martin Wiesner)
Antonin Dvorak
Moonlight in the Deep Sky (Aria Rusalka from the opera of the same name, ar. Martin Wiesner)



The program of the concert by soprano Simona Šaturová and the Zemlinsky Quartet will feature the works of all four major classics of Czech music arranged for solo voice and string quartet. From Smetana's work, a selection from his Evening Songs and Marenka's aria Kdybych se sach such from the opera Prodaná věsta will be heard. Dvořák will be represented by a selection from the cycle of Love Songs and his most famous operatic aria The Moon in the Deep Sky from the opera Rusalka. From the works of Leoš Janáček, we will present a selection from his collection Moravian folk poetry in songs and Janáčk's String Quartet No. 3, or a congenial arrangement of his wind sextet Youth for String Quartet. The conclusion of one of his most charming operas, the coloratura Lamento Ariadne from his neo-madrigal opera briefcase of the same name, will be heard in the original French language version of Bohuslav Martinů's libretto by Georges Neveux.