Dvořák's Rusalka from Glyndebourne

This week we've got not one but two tracks for you to download. Both are from a production of Dvořák's opera Rusalka, recorded live at Glyndebourne last year. Starring Ana María Martínez as Rusalka, the daughter of a water sprite who falls in love with a human Prince, the production features the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Jiři Bĕlohlávek. 

Your first download is the chorus 'White blossoms along the road' ('Kvĕtiny Bílé Po Cestě'), sung by the guests at the wedding feast for Rusalka and the Prince. In the second download, Rusalka pours out her heartbreak at being cast aside by the Prince for a human Princess ('Rusalko, Znáš Mne, Znáš').

'Martinez is a near-ideal heroine,' writes Michael Scott Rohan in BBC Music Magazine. 'Her silver tones are naively yearning and tragically resigned, with an unforced sense of pathos.'

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