Czech Chamber Music Society • Lada Bočková

The two most famous Czech Romantic composers are admired for, among other things, works that enchant listeners with the sound of the human voice. Curiously, both Smetana and Dvořák wrote musical settings of poems from the collection Evening Songs by Vítězslav Hálek. Soprano Lada Bočková will sing the two cycles along with selected opera arias.

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Programme

Antonín Dvořák
Evening Songs  
“Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém”, Rusalka’s aria from the opera Rusalka, Op. 114

Bedřich Smetana
Evening Songs  
Hulán (The Lancer) from Czech Dances, Book II
“Ach, jaký žal”, Mařenka’s aria from the opera The Bartered Bride 

Antonín Dvořák 
“Za štíhlou gazelou”, aria from the opera Armida, Op. 116
Humoresque in E flat minor, Op. 101, No. 1
Humoresque in G flat major, Op. 101, No. 7

Bedřich Smetana
“Samostatně vládnu já”, Karolína’s aria from the opera The Two Widows

Performers

Lada Bočková soprano
Ahmad Hedar piano