Lovely! What are the instruments? Sounds organ-like....

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baritone: Peter Mazalán
piano: Robert Pechanec

Ján Cikker (1911 - 1989)
O mamičke, op. 18 (1940)
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Mother Is Writing a Letter
Sending my warmest greetings,
my dear, pale son
out there in the distant world…
Thank heavens I am in good health,
though often I have a mild cough
and a headache…

Your old father this spring
worked not in the vineyard:
I guess we’ve become bad helpers,
too weak as workers…

When will you come back, and will you ever?
When will you come back?
When we shall be no more, perhaps?

We need young ploughmen:
yeomen with wives.
No one to mow the field
and plough the fallow:
we are one foot in the grave
and are expected in Heaven.

My heart is not as strong
as it used to be…
my dear, pale son!

This spring, I brought 
for the last time, in your name,
lilies to the altar
of Our Lady of Šaštín…,
my dear, pale son!
(preklad Peter Zagar)

SERIOUS SONGS_Ján Cikker / O mamičke, op. 18 / Matka mi píše list

baritone: Peter Mazalan
piano: Robert Pechanec
viola: Martin Ruman

SERIOUS SONGS _Johannes Brahms / Zwei Gesänge, Op 91 / Geistliches Wiegenlied (excerpt)

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Keywords: Music. Pianissimo. Trio. Schumann.  Purcell (Fantasia upon one note). Contrary motion. Ricercata.
Kľúčové slová: Hudba. Pianissimo. Trio. Schumann. Purcell (Fantasia upon one note). Protipohyb. Ricercata.

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