Elegie na smrt dcery Olgy 'Elegy on the death of my daughter Olga'

First line:

Hle sám, jak smírne, pokojne dívka spí! 'Behold, how peacefully, how comfortably the girl sleeps!'

composer

Leoš Janácek (1854-1928)

1903; for four-part choir, tenor soloist and piano

author of text

Marie N Veveritsa (?-?)

Recordings

Janácek: Choral Music

New London Chamber Choir, Critical Band, James Wood (conductor)

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Details

Jamie MacDougall (tenor), Clive Williamson (piano), New London Chamber Choir, James Wood (conductor)

Track 23 on CDH55398 [6'42] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

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Elegie na smrt dcery Olgy 'Elegy on the death of my daughter Olga'

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The Elegy, a setting for mixed voices of a text by Marie N. Vevericová is an introspective response to the death, in 1903, of Janácek’s only surviving child, at twenty-one years of age, an event which further extended the long and troubled gestation of the opera Jenufa.

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