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Release Date: 23rd Jun 2017
Catalogue No: SU42312
Label: Supraphon
Series: Music From 18th Century Prague
Length: 53 minutes

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Tomásek: Lieder sur des poèmes de Goethe, Op. 56: No. 4, An den Mond

Work length3:11

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Martina Janková (vocalist), Barbara Maria Willi (soloist)

Leopold Koželuh: Spira pur, Op. 31 No. 11

Work length1:43

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Martina Janková (vocalist), Barbara Maria Willi (soloist)

Leopold Koželuh: Sento amor, Op. 31 No. 3

Work length1:38

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Martina Janková (vocalist), Barbara Maria Willi (soloist)

Mozart: Das Veilchen, K476

Work length2:27

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Martina Janková (vocalist), Barbara Maria Willi (soloist)

Mozart: Abendempfindung an Laura, K523

Work length5:27

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Martina Janková (vocalist), Barbara Maria Willi (soloist)

Mozart: Als Luise die Briefe in C Minor, K. 520

Work length1:35

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Martina Janková (vocalist), Barbara Maria Willi (soloist)

Ján Jozef Rösler: Arietta Il niente

Work length1:58

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Martina Janková (vocalist), Barbara Maria Willi (soloist)

Ján Jozef Rösler: Herbstlied

Work length3:15

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Martina Janková (vocalist), Barbara Maria Willi (soloist)

Ján Jozef Rösler: An die Entfernte

Work length4:41

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Martina Janková (vocalist), Barbara Maria Willi (soloist)

Ján Jozef Rösler: La Verita

Work length4:07

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Martina Janková (vocalist), Barbara Maria Willi (soloist)

Haydn: O Tuneful Voice in E-Flat Major, Hob. XXVIa:42

Work length4:49

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Martina Janková (vocalist), Barbara Maria Willi (soloist)

Haydn: The Spirit's Song, Hob. XXVIa:41

Work length5:38

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Martina Janková (vocalist), Barbara Maria Willi (soloist)

Voříšek: 3 Gedichte in A-Flat Major, Op. 21: No. 1, An Sie! Andante con moto

Work length2:34

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Martina Janková (vocalist), Barbara Maria Willi (soloist)

Voříšek: Liebe, Op. 15

Work length4:06

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Martina Janková (vocalist), Barbara Maria Willi (soloist)

Voříšek: 3 Lieder, Op. 10: No. 1, Die Abschiedsträne

Work length3:16

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Martina Janková (vocalist), Barbara Maria Willi (soloist)

Kalivoda: Frühlings Wanderschaft, Op. 172

Work length3:01

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Martina Janková (vocalist), Barbara Maria Willi (soloist)

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The road between Vienna and Prague, taken in 1787 by the 31- year-old Mozart so as to attend the premiere of his opera Don Giovanni, was familiar to a number of other musicians. It was a journey they made in both directions, often with the vision of attaining a better life at the other end.

The Czech songs dating from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, which form the axis of the present album, may be a revelation for many a listener – as may be the fact that Czech

composers mainly set to music German and Italian texts. Leopold Koželuch was one of Vienna’s most successful song composers, and, owing to, among other things, his diplomatic skills, he even eclipsed the bright star of Mozart. The Prague-based composer F. A. Rösler, whose songs are often indistinguishable from those of Mozart’s, did his utmost to preserve Mozart’s legacy following his death. And similarly to Rösler, V. J. Tomášek, who too remained faithful to Prague, possessed a refined literary taste, as duly reflected in his selection of the texts for his songs.

The recording captures Martina Janková’s engrossing voice, replete with vitality, innocence, vigour and lightness, which so becomes the Mozart repertoire. Under the hands of Barbara Maria Willi, the bright and colourful sound of the one and only preserved fortepiano built by F. J. Baumeister (1797) will be for many yet another surprise and discovery on this musical odyssey.

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