Girls’ choir Kuželovské Zpěvulky (Singers from Kuželov) from the Czech Republic has released its second album, V Kuželově sú děvčata … jak tá malina (There Are Girls In Kuželov … Sweet As Raspberries) features Horňácko folk songs, including peasant ballads or verbunks (Recruitment Songs) along with one song from Strání region.
Kuželovské zpěvulky was formed in 2011, when the girls performed for the first time on the occasion of the Horňácko Festival in Velká nad Veličkou. They have come a long way since then and after their eponymous debut, Kuželovské zpěvulky, they prepared a second album for their tenth anniversary. “We chose the songs together so that the theme was love,” says Klára Halíčková, a member of the choir. “It is impossible to say who came up with the whole idea. It came partly from us singers and partly from the music ensemble that helped us a lot. We took advantage of the fact that the music is played by skillful boys, who also sing beautifully. And I’m talking about both Roman Sokol’s HCE and Marek Potěšil’s HCE. And so we sang these love sets with them. I would say that these dialogue love songs are not so common in Horňácko and you will not hear them often. And I would take this as an adjustment, otherwise we don’t try to modernize anything and we sing as is the custom in the Horňácko region.”
Today’s Kužełovské zpěvulky is formed by 9 girls: Klára Halíčková, Erika Kolaciová, Klára Kostelanská, Miroslava Macková, Magdalena Mičková, Veronika Mičková, Marie Pomykalová, Adéla Sedlářová and Markéta Sedlářová, some of whom started singing together in 2005 at the Kuželov School under the direction of Alžběta Matulové. Martin Kománek is the artistic director of the choir.
The album also includes the Horňacko Cymbal Ensembles, soloists such as Richard Hála and Martin Prachař, and especially the Male Choir from Kuželov.
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