Evening songs: Adam Plachetka and David Švec

09/11/24, 19:00

Bedřich Smetana – Večerní písne (full cycle; to the words of Vítězslav Hálk)
Antonín Dvořák – Night Path (from the piano cycle Poetic Moods, op.85)
Antonín Dvořák – Evening Songs (selection) Op. 3, 9, 31 (entire cycle; to the words of Vítězslav Hálk; in the new edition of the Bärenreiter publishing house, 2024)
Josef Suk – The night was beautiful (from the booklet Three songs to the words of Vítězslav Hálk)
Zdeněk Fibich – Five Songs from Evening Songs, Op. 5 (entire cycle; to the words of Vítězslav Hálk)
Leoš Janáček – Along the overgrown footpath
Antonín Dvořák – Gypsy Melodies, op.55

 

Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) composed a total of twelve Evening Songs, probably in the neighborhood of the Moravian Duets, in 1876. It was based on poems from the collection of the same name by Vítězslav Hálk, and formally returns to the songs of Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann. He later revised them extensively and published them in different numbers in 1880 and 1883 with different publishers.