PENTATONE releases Evening Songs, featuring Adam Plachetka & David Švec, in October 2024.
A Panoramic Anthology Of Czech Song
Renowned bass-baritone Adam Plachetka celebrates the Year of Czech Music with an anthology of Czech evening songs by Antonín Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana, Zdeněk Fibich and Josef Suk. All based on love poems for Vítězslav Hálek’s Večerní písně (Evening Songs), these songs provide a panorama of great Czech music, also zooming in on lesser-known repertoire. Plachetka performs them together with pianist David Švec.
Bass-baritone Adam Plachetka frequents the world’s most prestigious opera houses, and is a MET regular, equally at home in dramatic and comic repertoire. He returns to PENTATONE after having released Molieri, combining opera arias by Mozart and Salieri, in 2022.
“I hope you will enjoy listening to this album as much as we enjoyed recording it. And I also hope, that next to the relatively well-known works of Dvořák and Smetana, the compositions by Fibich and Suk will get the spotlight they surely deserve.”
Adam Plachetka
Digital Release Date: 25 OCTOBER 2024
Physical Release: OCTOBER 2024
Released as a Standard CD and in digital formats for streaming and high-resolution downloads.
