Folksongs Fantasias - Fantazie na lidové písně / M.Uhlířová viola da gamba

Magda Uhlířová - Folksongs Fantasias - Fantazie na lidové písně

1. Oh, Love

2. I Had a Little Dove

3. Rehradice

4. Magical Herb

5. Rolling Apple

6. Once I Go Across the Forest

7. A Cat Crawls In Through a Hole

8. If I Were a Strawberry

9. A Cuckoo Is Singing

10. Paradise Mountain

11. My Little Head Is Aching

12. A Little Swallow Is Flying

13. Tangambo

Magda Uhlířová – viola da gamba bass and treble, vocal

Jakub Tatoušek – little drum

Hana Fleková – viola da gamba

Karel Jiroš – guitar

These variations based on Bohemian and Moravian folk songs were composed out of a desire to escape from the pleasant but rather limiting confines of early music, to let myself use my gamba to sing something other than words that are 300 years old. There is no denying the historical origins of the viola da gamba, but I think that while respecting the basic nature of the instrument and what comes naturally on it and lies comfortably for the player, one can go a bit past than the Baroque.

Autorské variace na české a moravské lidové písně vznikly z touhy vylézt z pěkné, ale poněkud těsné, starohudební krabičky a dovolit si hlasem gamby zpívat i jiná, než 300 let stará slova. Viola da gamba sice nezapře svůj historický původ, avšak původní kompoziční limity lze, myslím, při respektování podstaty nástroje a toho, co na něm zní „samo“ a jde „do ruky“, ještě o kousek za baroko posunout.