Dvok Psn / Cypie, Veern psn, Cignsk melodie – CD

This recording brings together Antonn Dvoks Cypresses, Evening Songs and Gypsy Songs, performed by tenor Pavol Brlk with pianist Robert Pechanec. Dvok described Cypresses, composed at the age of 23 while deeply in love with the young actress Josefina ermkov, as expressing the thoughts of a young man in love. Although an early work with certain imperfections, he returned to it repeatedly and used its motifs in many mature compositions. Dvok set the equally love-struck poetry of Vtzslav Hlek in his Evening Songs, while the poems by Adolf Heyduk that inspired Gypsy Songs express not only romantic love, but also love of music and nature and a longing for freedom. The song Songs My Mother Taught Me became one of Dvoks best-known works. Pavol Brlk, a celebrated tenor on the worlds opera and concert stages, devotes himself to song as well as opera. Together with Robert Pechanec, he brings all the passion and many shades of love in Dvoks songs to this recording.