In the context of the Lieder Company Prague concerts, this will be an exceptional evening in which we will exchange the concert hall for an intimate church setting, the piano for the majestic sound of the organ and listen to rarely performed Czech sacred vocal music of the 20th and 21st centuries. This repertoire is often overlooked in concerts – undoubtedly due to the long years of totalitarian rule, anti-religious restrictions, and cultural dictatorship, which violently interrupted a tradition of Czech sacred music that was several hundred years old. Authors composing sacred works were persecuted during the communist era, often standing outside the official sphere despite their undisputed qualities, and their work fell into oblivion without the possibility of performance and publication.

 

The programme will feature works by Norbert Kubát, Jaromír Herle, Vojtěch Adalbert Říhovský, Leoš Janáček, Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann and Jan Hanuš, and contemporary composers Luboš Sluka and especially Olga Ježková and Jan Bernátek, who composed works specifically for this concert.

 

Programme:

Sacred works of prominent Czech authors of the 20th and 21st centuries on Marian texts. The world premiere of Four Songs to the Virgin Mary for middle voice and organ by Jan Bernátek and Invocation of the Virgin Mary for soprano, alto, violin and organ by Olga Ježková.

 

Interprets:

Irena Troupová – soprano
Lucie Hilscherová – mezzosoprano
Štěpán Ježek – violin
Linda Sítková – organ

 

The interprets will perform on the organ balcony, but the audience can watch them thanks to a projection.

 

Tickets: https://goout.net/cs/pisne-k-panne-marii/szvssmv/