Photo: Oleg Rostowtsew, archive of Magdalena Kožená
In today’s Sunday Music Show, we present you the recording Czech Songs, sung by Magdalena Kožená. She is accompanied the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, led by conductor Simon Rattle. The selection presents a number of folk songs by Czech authors and artists with Czech roots.
Magdalena’s selection features Bohuslav Martinů’s Nipponari, which was inspired by Japanese culture, and his Songs on a Page gains deeper meaning knowing he wrote them in the USA, where he fled from the Nazi threat.
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