Phidylé Kateřina Kněžíková, Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava & Robert Jindra

• Bohuslav Martinů (1890 - 1959): Magic Nights:
• 1 Martinů: Magic Nights: In a Foreign Land. Adagio 05:17
• 2 Martinů: Magic Nights: Untouched by Spring. Adagio lugubre 05:00
• 3 Martinů: Magic Nights: The Mysterious Flute. Andante sostenuto 05:30
• Henri Duparc (1848 - 1933):
• 4 Duparc: L'invitation au voyage 05:02
• 5 Duparc: La vie antérieure 04:39
• 6 Duparc: Phidylé 05:37
• 7 Duparc: Chanson triste 03:24
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937): Cinq mélodies populaires Grecques:
• 8 Ravel: Cinq mélodies populaires Grecques: No. 1, Chanson de la mariée. Modéré 01:17
• 9 Ravel: Cinq mélodies populaires Grecques: No. 2, La-bas, vers l'église. Andante 01:32
• 10 Ravel: Cinq mélodies populaires Grecques: No. 3, Quel galant m'est comparable. Allegro 00:53
• 11 Ravel: Cinq mélodies populaires Grecques: No. 4, Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques. Lento 02:53
• 12 Ravel: Cinq mélodies populaires Grecques: No. 5, Tout gai! Allegro 01:00
• Maurice Ravel: Shéhérazade.:
• 13 Ravel: Shéhérazade.: Asie 10:03
• 14 Ravel: Shéhérazade.: La Flute enchantée 03:05
• 15 Ravel: Shéhérazade.: L´Indifférent 03:40
• Karol Szymanowski (1882 - 1937):
• 16 Szymanowski: Penthesilea, Op. 18 06:14
• Total Runtime 01:05:06

Info for Phidylé

Kateřina Kněžíková's lyric coloratura soprano has delighted audiences in numerous music centres worldwide, both at opera houses and concert venues. She has appeared with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Bamberger Symphoniker, Camerata Salzburg, the Czech Philharmonic, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, etc. under the baton of conductors of such renown as J. Bělohlávek, S. Baudo, M. Honeck, J. Hrůša, T. Netopil and R. Ticciati. The highlights of her career include the invitation to portray the title role in Janáček's opera Katya Kabanova in Glyndebourne. Kateřina Kněžíková's debut Supraphon solo album features enchanting fin de siecle songs, "... songs that are particularly close to my heart and voice, all of them dating from the turn of the 20th century, all of them tinged with Impressionism," as the singer herself put it. The first of them is Bohuslav Martinů's Magic Nights, set to Chinese poetry. Henri Duparc's songs, one of which, depicting Phylidé, a simple and pious country girl, has given the album its title, may come as a revelation to many a listener. All the songs chosen for the CD reflect a penchant for the exotic, foregrounding connection with Nature and intuition. Conducted by Robert Jindra, the Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava has created a splendidly colourful backdrop for Kateřina Kněžíková's soprano to embellish.

Kateřina Kněžíková, soprano
Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava
Robert Jindra, conductor

Kateřina Kněžíková
is one of the most prominent figures of the younger generation of Czech singers in both the operatic and the concert repertoire. She is a graduate of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and has won honours in many events including the Antonín Dvořák International Singing Competition in Karlovy Vary. Since 2006 she has been a regular soloist with the opera company of the National Theatre in Prague, where she has sung Susanna in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Aristea in L'Olimpiade by Mysliveček, and Terinka in Dvořák's opera The Jacobin amongst other roles. She also appears as a guest at other opera houses both at home and abroad, such as the Moravian-Silesian National Theatre in Ostrava, L’Opéra Royal de Versailles, and the Theatre Royal de La Monnaie. She works with important conductors like Serge Baudo, Manfred Honeck, and Tomáš Netopil, and with such renowned ensembles as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Collegium 1704, and the Czech Philharmonic. With Jiří Bělohlávek she recorded a new official version of the Czech national anthem.

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