Czech Folk Songs

Description: Contains 59 authentic folk songs from the collection of Karel Jaromír Erben (1811-1870), from whose collections Dvorák selected the stories which inspired his cycle of famous tone-poems. Erben categorized his collections and there is at least one (and as many as nine) from these categories: Childhood, Anniversary Songs and Rhymes, Youth, Beauty and Joy, Lovesickness, Defiance, Jokes and Jibes, Music and Dances, Getting Married, Wedding Songs and Dances, Social Songs, Songs about Professions, Trades and Other Aspects of Civilian Life, Farming, Military Songs, Historical Reminiscences, Narrative Songs, Earthly Vanity, Death and Funeral and Funeral Songs. 2 CDs. No texts. Musica Bohemica; Jaroslav Krcek. Original 1995 Panton release.