Utwory na płycie:

• Heiligabend
• Wiegenlieder op. 33 (6 Stücke für Klavier) - Nr. 5 Weihnachtstraum eines Kindes
• Vánoce (Weihnachten) - 1. Con fuoco
• Vánoce (Weihnachten) - 2. Con moto
• Vánoce (Weihnachten) - 3. Lento
• Vánoce (Weihnachten) - 4. Allegro molto
• Weihnachten - Schlitten
• Weihnachten - Wiegenlied
• Weihnachten - Weihnachtslied
• Lieder einer Winternacht, Op. 30 - Nr. 1 Lied in einer mondbeschienenen Nacht (Andante amoroso)
• Lieder einer Winternacht, Op. 30 - Nr. 2 Lied in einer stürmischen Nacht (Allegro tempestoso)
• Lieder einer Winternacht, Op. 30 - Nr. 3 Lied an Heiligabend (Andante misterioso)
• Lieder einer Winternacht, Op. 30 - Nr. 4 Lied in der Karnevalsnacht (Allegro burlesco, rubato)
• Intime Stücke, Op. 17 - Nr. 1 Andante con malinconia
• Intime Stücke, Op. 17 - Nr. 2 Grave, con effusione
• Intime Stücke, Op. 17 - Nr. 3 Andante con tenerezza
• Intime Stücke, Op. 17 - Nr. 4 Tempo di valse
• Sonatina, Op. 54 Nr. 6, "Weihnachten" - 1. Pastorale: Quasi allegretto
• Sonatina, Op. 54 Nr. 6, "Weihnachten" - 2. Choral aus einer Adventsmesse aus der Zeit von Hus: Andante - Doppio movimento
• Christus der Herr ist geboren

Josef Suk:
Christmas Eve
A Child’s Christmas Dream, Op. 33/5

Jaroslav Kvapil:
Vánoce (Christmas)

Bohuslav Martinů:
Christmas

Vítězslav Novák:
Songs on Winter Nights, Op. 30
Sonatina, Op. 54/6

Jaroslav Křička:
Intimate Pieces, Op. 17

Leoš Janáček:
Christ the Lord is born

“Christmas Eve” and “A Child’s Christmas Dream” by Josef Suk bring distinctly different Christmas atmospheres. The pieces are psychologically subtle, with many voices and complex harmonies, but always melodic, sincere, and generous.

The cycle “Vánoce” by Jaroslav Kvapil is the first world premiere on this CD. According to Ludvík Kundera, “it is not only the most personal work of Kvapil, but also an expression of an ardent life experience full of lyric beauty”. Here Kvapil’s spontaneous musicality blossoms, his inexhaustible melodic creativity and natural musical intuition. The immediacy and intensity with which he expresses his emotions brings to mind the compositional style of his teacher, Janáček.

Three short pieces (“Sledge”, “Lullaby”, and “Christmas Carol”) by Bohuslav Martinů render the atmosphere of the Christmas period and things that typically belong in it: snowy fun on a sledge, a children’s lullaby with magical bells which get more and more festive, and a merry Christmas pageant with singing and dancing.