Musikalischer Salon: Melodien aus Böhmen

In the organizer's words:

Czech composer Vítězslava Kaprálová is said to have a "melancholy of her own in the melodic". Her children's song-like Ritournelles are her last complete work - due to a tumor, the student of Bohuslav Martinů was only 25 years old.

The melancholy is joined by other subtle atmospheric images from Bohemia: youthful romantic naivety in Dvořák's pieces intended for domestic music, painful lamentations in Bedřich Smetana in memory of his deceased daughter, dazzlingly refined expressivity in Erwin Schulhoff on the way to modernism. Folk songs and fairy tales inspired Sláva Vorlová and Josef Suk to write their works, while Gustav Mahler's early works contain echoes of Brahms, Schumann and Schubert.

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