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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Downpatrick Recitals

Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert: Downpatrick Recitals: Episode 2: Jan Martinik, Alexander Stary

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Episode 2: Jan Martinik, Alexander Stary

Downpatrick Recitals

Jan Martinik, Alexander Stary

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Jan Martinik (bass) and Alexander Stary (piano) perform Schubert, Petr Eben and Dvorak.

Recital given at the Great Hall in Downpatrick. Jan Martinik (bass), Alexander Stary (piano) in Schubert: Winterreise (excerpts). Eben: Pisne z Tesinska. Dvorak: Biblicke pisne.

Sean Rafferty introduces the second Lunchtime Concert of Song Recitals recorded in Downpatrick Co. Down - the town where St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, lies buried alongside St Bridget and St Colmcille. The venue is the Great Hall - part of the original Downshire Hospital Estate which opened its doors in 1869 as part of the Victorian government's aim to provide psychiatric care to the people in the region - the beginnings of the Welfare State.

Today the winner of the Song Prize at the 2009 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, Jan MartinÃ­k, performs songs from Schubert's Winterreise as well as songs from his homeland. Petr Ebden's Pise z Tisinska are folk songs from the Cieszyn region (which borders the Czech Republic and Poland) and are sung in a dialect close to Martinik's native dialect. The concert ends with Dvorak's Biblical Songs. The texts are verses from the Psalms and are from the Kralice Bible - the first complete translation into the Czech language - which was compiled and secretly printed in the late 16th century in the village of Kralice by the Unity of the Brethren, a Protestant sect rooted in the pre-Reformation teachings of the Bohemain religious leader Jan Hus who was martyred in 1415.

Jan MartinÃ­k bass , Alexander StarÃ½ piano
SchubertWinterreise - song-cycle (D.911) - extracts 
Petr EbenPisne z Tesinska
DvorakBiblicke pisne (Op.99).

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Sean Rafferty presents song recitals given at the Great Hall in Downpatrick, Co Down

Sean Rafferty presents a series of song recitals given at the Great Hall in Downpatrick, Co Down, the final resting place of St Patrick, Ireland's patron saint

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