FULL Svatební košile or The Spectre’s Bride (Dvořák ) Bratislava 2019 Kateřina Kněžíková, Ľudovít Ludha, Adam Plachetka

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Svatební košile or The Spectre’s Bride   
• Composer: Dvořák Antonin  
• Libretto: based on Karel Jaromír Erben  
• Venue & Opera Company: Concert Hall of Slovak Philharmonic, Bratislava, Slovakia  
• Recorded: January 17, 2019
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Kateřina Kněžíková, Ľudovít Ludha, Adam Plachetka
• Conductor: Rastislav Štúr  
• Orchestra: Slovak Philharmonic  
• Chorus: Slovak Philharmonic Choir  
• Chorus Master: Jaroslav Brych  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: filharmonia.sk  
• Date Published: 2019  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  
• Video Recording from: filharmonia.sk     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

The Spectre’s Bride (Czech: Svatební košile; literally “The Wedding Shirt”) is a cantata for soloists, choir and orchestra op. 69 by Antonín Dvořák based on a literary model by Karel Jaromír Erben (1884).

History of origins and performance
In 1883, Dvořák was invited to write a large orchestral oratorio for England to be performed at the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival. Dvořák had agreed with his librettist Marie Červinková-Riegrová to write an oratorio on a theme from Czech history, for example the story of St. Wenceslaus or Jan Hus. Finally he decided to write a literary work, the ballad The Spectre’s Bride by Karel Jaromír Erben. He worked on his composition from April to November 1884, and the cantata was published by Alfred Novello the following year. It is scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, English horn, three clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, triangle, tam-tam, bells, harp, first and second violins, violas, cellos, double basses + mixed choir + vocal soloists (soprano, tenor, bass)

Introduction
Nr. 1. Choir: “Už jedenáctá odbila”
Nr. 2. Soprano solo: “Žel bohu, žel, kde můj tatíček?”
Nr. 3. Tenor and bass solo and Choir: “Pohnul se obraz na stěně”
Nr. 4. Duett. Soprano and tenor solo: “Hoj, má panenko, tu jsem již!”
Nr. 5. Bass solo and Choir: “Byla noc, byla hluboká”
Nr. 6. Bass solo and Choir: “A on tu napřed skok a skok”
Nr. 7. Duett. soprano and tenor solo: “Pěkná noc, jasná”
Nr. 8. Bass solo and Choir: “Knížky ji vzal a zahodil”
Nr. 9. Bass solo and Choir: “A on vždy napřed – skok a skok”
Nr. 10. Duett. soprano and tenor solo: “Pěkná noc, jasná, v tento čas”
Nr. 11. Bass solo and Choir: “A byla cesta nížinou”
Nr. 12. Duett. Soprano and tenor solo: “Pěkná noc, jasná, v tu dobu”
Nr. 13. Bass solo and Choir: “Tu na planině široké”
Nr. 14. Duett. Soprano and tenor solo: “Hoj, má panenko, tu jsme již”
Nr. 15. Bass solo and Choir: “Skokem přeskočil ohradu”
Nr. 16. Bass solo and Choir: “A tu na dveře: buch, buch, buch!”
Nr. 17. Sopran solo: “Maria Panno, při mně stůj”
Nr. 18. Bass solo and Choir: ‘”A slyš, tu právě nablízce'”