František Báleš ansámbel: Básne múzické

Description

After setting the sonnets of Pavel Országh Hviezdoslav from 1886 to music and releasing the first Radio Head Awards-winning album, a group of jazz musicians and literary enthusiasts comes with another author’s CD album, which combines the beauty of poetry and music in the form of songs. The colorful dramaturgy of the work is dominated by the Bloody Sonnets of Pavel Országh Hviezdoslav in the English translation of John Minahane, and together with poems set to music by Rudolf Dilong, Janek Kráľ, Milan Rúfus, Ján Kostra and Ján Smrek, they represent a song cycle created on the border between the genres of jazz and classical music. The opening track of the album – a poem by František Báleš set to music, is an ode to Hviezdoslav, with which the author of the music expresses his admiration for the greatest Slovak poet and his followers.