K4 Šaturová & Kozák – nocturne

ABOUT THE CONCERT

Slovak soprano Simona Šaturová and Czech pianist Marek Kozák will present the atmosphere of the night in their song recital.

The evening, which will offer a cross-section of nocturne compositions by composers from the end of the 18th century to the 20th century, will open with Mozart’s Evening Remembrance of Laura from 1787. Mozart accompanied the elegant verses with an almost romantic musical expression that in many ways foreshadows the songwriting of Franz Schubert. Of his vast number of more than six hundred songs, we will hear The Little Stop and the Song of the Nightingale.

The song Over the Country a Light Sleep Presides, presents the inner world of the young and unhappily in love Antonín Dvořák, while his Lullaby from Two Songs on Folk Texts, written in 1885 during a visit to England, is already the work of a mature master. The evening will also be enriched by the Piano Nocturne in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2, one of Fryderyk Chopin’s most popular compositions. Claude Debussy’s three early songs Starry Night, Beautiful Evening and Moonlight from the 1880s, although not yet dressed in impressionistic garb, do not lack the French charm and elegance that have kept them in the repertoire of the world’s singers to this day. American composer Samuel Barber’s This Shining Night from 1938 will signal the climax of the evening, which will be devoted to the songs of Richard Strauss.

 PROGRAM

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Abendempfindung an Laura (Evening Remembrance of Laura) KV 523

Franz Schubert
Ständchen (Little Stop) D 889

Franz Schubert
An die Nachtigall (The Nightingales) D 497

Robert Schumann
Mondnacht (Moonlight Night) Op. 39 No. 5

Robert Schumann
In der Nacht (In the Night) Op. 12

Antonín Dvořák
Light sleep reigns over the land, No. 5 from Songs of Love Op. 83

Antonín Dvořák
Lullaby from Two Songs on Folk Texts, B142

Fryderik Chopin
Nocturne in D flat major, Op. 27 No. 2

Claude Debussy
Nuit d’étoiles (Starry Night) L 4

Claude Debussy
Beau soir (Beautiful Evening) L 84

Claude Debussy
Clair de lune (Moonlight), No 3 from the Bergamo Suite L 75

Karol Szymanowski
Three Lullabies (Tři ukolébavky) Op. 48

Franz Liszt
Nocturne No. 3 in A flat major from the cycle Dreams of Love S 541

Samuel Barber
Sure on this Shining Night Op. 13, No. 3

Richard Strauss
Morgen! (Tomorrow!) No. 4 from the cycle 4 Lieder (Four Songs) Op. 27

Richard Strauss
Der Stern (The Star), No. 1 from the cycle 5 Kleine Lieder (Five Little Songs) Op. 69

Richard Strauss
Die Nacht (The Night), no. 3 from the cycle 8 Gedichte aus “Letzte Blätte” (Eight Poems from the Last Leaves) op. 10

Richard Strauss
Ständchen (Little Stop), No. 2 from the cycle 6 Lieder (Six Songs), Op. 17

 THE CAST

Simona Šaturová – soprano
Marek Kozák – piano