ArcoDiva UP 0256 (2025). Total running time: 55:06. Available from presto music and other outlets.

Recorded in Martinu Hall, HAMU, Prague on 17 June 2022 (16); 6 August 2022 (9, 10, 14–15); 6–7 August 2022 (1–7); 12–14 August 2024 (8, 13, 17–19); and at Vesmir Ostrava on 26 June 2023 (11, 12).

Producer: Jiri Stilec
Recording Directors: Jiri Stilec, Pavel Kuncar, Martin Styblo
Sound Engineers: Vaclav Roubal, Pavel Kuncar, Ales Dvorak
Booklet text: Timothy Cheek
Booklet cover art: Timothy Joseph Cheek

Poetry by Jan Skacel, Vitezslav Nezval, Ondrej Prikryl, Jan Carek, Petr Kricka.

Funding provided through support of the University of Michigan Office of Research; the University of Michigan Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; and the Kapralova Society, Canada.

Canticum Ostrava, under the leadership of Yuri Galatenko, has become one the most remarkable women's choirs in the Czech Republic, collaborating on a wide range of contemporary projects, and participating in international choral festivals. In this recording, the choir is conducted by Alena Hron, recently appointed to lead the South Bohemian Philharmonic, making history as the first woman to hold the position of a Chief Conductor of a Czech orchestra.
Timothy Cheek, a professor of music at the University of Michigan School of Music, has been championing Kapralova's art songs since 2001, starting with the critical edition of the songs published that year by Amos Editio; recording the songs with Dana Buresova for Supraphon in 2003; and collaborating on the recording of the composer's orchestral songs for Naxos in 2021. With this recording, the final gap in Kapralova's art song discography is virtually closed.
Olga Jelinkova is a Czech coloratura soprano and the member of the Leipzig Opera.
Since his debut at the Prague National Theater in 2005, Adam Plachetka has become a renowned international artist who collaborates with leading opera houses and major orchestras around the world, appearing regularly at the Metropolitan Opera and Wiener Staatsoper.
The Skampa Quartet is among the very finest of an outstanding group of current Czech string quartets that represent their country in major concert halls around the world. The group is made up of the violinists Petra Brabcova and Adela Stajnochrova, violist Martin Stupka, and cellist Lukas Polak. Skampa Quartet are recording artists for the 'Wigmore Hall Live' label.
Slovak tenor Jozef Graf performs regularly at the National Theater Brno, National Theater Kosice, State Opera Banska Bystrica, and the Moravian Theater Olomouc.
Barbora Haasova is a member of the State Opera Orchestra in Prague.