The Burying of Light

Smetana House

25.
June 2022
15:30
24. June 2022
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This concert by the Martinů Voices ensemble will pay tribute above all to the works of two Polička natives – composer Bohuslav Martinů and poet and novelist Miloslav Bureš. Jiří Gemrot’s cantata The Burying of Light on Bureš’s lyrics, which Martinů also wished to set to music, will be heard for the first time.

“I still can’t understand that farewell. He smiles and waves his hand: »Send me the verses, The Burying of Light, in a month from now. I will be able to work again by then. Will make them into a new cantata,” he thinks of the old beautiful habit of the Vysočina glassmakers we were talking about.”

Miloslav Bureš about his last meeting with Bohuslav Martinů, 1959

Jiří Gemrot

Elegy for Military Secretaries

for solo voices, mixed choir, violin, viola and cello; lyrics by Jiří Dědeček


Jiří Gemrot

The Burying of Light

Premiere of a cantata for narrator, baritone, mixed choir, String quartet and piano. Libretto was written by Vojtěch Stříteský, based on rhymes, texts and a collection of the same name by Miloslav Bureš.


Bohuslav Martinů

Five Czech Madrigals

for mixed choir a cappella H. 321 (1948) 

The message delivered by the Dove

My Aching Head

Geese Floating on Water

Riding to See My love

Spells and Calumnies


Bohuslav Martinů

Mikeš from the Mountains

cantata on the text of a poem by Miloslav Bureš, for soli, mixed choir and instrumental accompaniment H. 375


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venue / Smetana House

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Matouš Zukal
piano
Zemlinského kvarteto
Martinů Voices
ensemble
Lukáš  Vasilek
conductor

290 / 390 / 490 CZK

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presale from 27th 4.

1 Intermission

Estimated end of the concert at 4.50 p.m.

The programme uses a sound system

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performers

Jan Šťastný – artistic recitation Pavla Vykopalová – soprano Roman Hoza – baritone Martin Šrejma – tenor Matouš Zukal – piano Zemlinsky Quartet: František Souček – violin 1, Petr Střížek – viollin 2, Petr Holman – viola, Vladimír Fortin – cello Martinů Voices Conductor Lukáš Vasilek
Jan Šťastný – artistic recitation

Pavla Vykopalová – soprano

Roman Hoza – baritone

Martin Šrejma – tenor

Matouš Zukal – piano

Zemlinsky Quartet:

František Souček – violin 1, Petr Střížek – viollin 2, Petr Holman – viola, Vladimír Fortin – cello

Martinů Voices

Conductor Lukáš Vasilek

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