Dvorák, Antonín - Slavic Soul - Michiels, Jan

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It was in Prague and Brno, the two largest cities in what is now the Czech Republic, that Antonín Dvorák and Leoš Janácek – the principal representatives of the nineteenth-century Czech national school, along with Bedrich Smetana – launched their respective compositional careers. While Janácek, thirteen years younger than Dvorák, saw the latter as a father figure, the two men shared the same poetic Slavic soul. Indeed, Janácek said of Dvorák: ‘I could exchange his personality for his works; it is as if his melodies came straight from my heart. Nothing can ever break such a bond.’ In his fourth solo recording for Fuga Libera, Jan Michiels places this shared Slavic consciousness and musicality in the perspective of the almost filial relationship between the two composers, for example by interspersing the pieces from two eminently lyrical cycles: Dvorák’s Poetic Tone Pictures op.85 (1889) and Janácek’s On an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17 (1900-11).