Utwory na płycie:

• Chanson Perpetuelle
• Selection of Songs - I. Má píseň zas mi láskou zní (My song resounds with love)
• Selection of Songs - II. Širokými rukávy (Wide sleeves)
• Selection of Songs - III. Mé srdce často (My heart is often in pain)
• Selection of Songs - IV. Žalo dievča (The Moweress)
• Selection of Songs - V. Když mne stará matka (When my mother taught me)
• Selection of Songs - VI. Struna naladěna (The strings are tuned)
• Selection of Songs - VII. Dobrú noc (Good night)
• Gestillte Sehnsucht, Op. 91
• Geistliches Wiegenlied, Op. 91
• Three Songs from William Shakespeare - I. Musick to heare
• Three Songs from William Shakespeare - II. Full fadom five
• Three Songs from William Shakespeare - III. When Daisies pied
• Chansons madecasses - I. Nahandove
• Chansons madecasses - II. Aoua
• Chansons madecasses - III. Il est doux
• Fünf Ophelia Lieder, WoO 22 - I. Wie erkenn' ich dein Treulieb
• Fünf Ophelia Lieder, WoO 22 - II. Sein Leichenhemd weiß wie Schnee zu sehn
• Fünf Ophelia Lieder, WoO 22 - III. Auf Morgen ist Sankt Valentins Tag
• Fünf Ophelia Lieder, WoO 22 - IV. Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloß
• Fünf Ophelia Lieder, WoO 22 - V. Und kommt er nicht mehr zurück?
• Říkadla (Nursery Rhymes) - I. Leze krtek podle meze (The mole creeps)
• Říkadla (Nursery Rhymes) - II. Karel do pekla zajel (Karel rode off to hell)
• Říkadla (Nursery Rhymes) - III. Franta rasůl hrálna basu (Franta Rasul playing bass)
• Říkadla (Nursery Rhymes) - IV. dĕlám, dĕlám kázání (Children, hear my sermon)
• Říkadla (Nursery Rhymes) - V. Hó, hó, krávy dó (Ho, ho, off the cows go)
• Říkadla (Nursery Rhymes) - VI. Kozabílá hrušky sbírá (The white goat’s picking up the pears)
• Říkadla (Nursery Rhymes) - VII. Vašek, pašek (Vacek, scallywag)
• Říkadla (Nursery Rhymes) - VIII. Frantíku, Frantíku (Frantik, Frantik)
• Morgen!

Ernest Chausson:
Chanson perpétuelle

Antonin Dvořák:
Selection of Songs:
I. Má píseň zas mi láskou zní (My song resounds with love)
II. Širokými rukávy (Wide sleeves)
III. Mé srdce často (My heart is often in pain)
IV. Žalo dievča (The Moweress)
V Když mne stará matka (When my mother taught me)
VI. Struna naladěna (The strings are tuned)
VII. Dobrú noc (Good night)

Johannes Brahms:
Two Songs, Op. 91
5 Ophelia Songs, WoO 22

Igor Stravinsky:
Three Songs from William Shakespeare

Maurice Ravel:
Chansons madécasses

Leoš Janáček:
Říkadla (Nursery Rhymes)

Richard Strauss:
Morgen!

Soirée captures the atmosphere of informal, domestic music making. Czech star mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená offers an intimate and highly personal collection of international songs together with an outstanding group of musical friends, including Sir Simon Rattle, who makes his recording debut as a pianist. The German lied is represented by Brahms (Two Songs, Op. 91 and Five Ophelia Songs, WoO 22) and Strauss (Morgen!), the French chanson by Chausson (Chanson perpétuelle) and Ravel (Chansons madécasses), and 20th-century avant-gardism with Stravinsky’s Three Songs from William Shakespeare. In between these explorations, Kožená revisits her musical roots with a selection of Dvořák songs, arranged by Duncan Ward, as well as Janáček’s Nursery Rhymes.

Soirée is the second release of Magdalena Kožená’s exclusive collaboration with PENTATONE, after having presented the baroque cantatas recital album Il giardino dei sospiri in 2019.

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This album was recorded at the Meistersaal Berlin, July 2017.