''Slzy a úsmevy, ''Op.25 (Tears and Smiles) is a 1909
song cycle
A song cycle () is a group, or cycle (music), cycle, of individually complete Art song, songs designed to be performed in sequence, as a unit.Susan Youens, ''Grove online''
The songs are either for solo voice or an ensemble, or rarely a combinat ...
on
Slovak poetry by Slovak composer
Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský
Mikuláš Schneider-Trnavský Order of St. Gregory the Great, KSG (24 May 1881, Trnava – 28 May 1958, Bratislava) was a Slovak composer, conductor and pedagogue. He was popular mostly because of his songs, some becoming traditional.
Li ...
. It is among his best known vocal compositions. The songs were first published in 1912.
Songs
*1. Prsteň ("A ring") to a text by
Janko Jesenský
Baron Ján Jesenský (30 December 1874 in Tučiansky Svätý Martin (), Kingdom of Hungary (present day Martin, Slovakia) – 27 December 1945 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia) was a Slovak lower nobleman of the House of Jeszenszky, poet, prose ...
*2. Pieseň ("A song")
Ivan Krasko
Ivan Krasko (real name Ján Botto, pseudonyms ''Bohdana J. Potokinová'', ''Ivan Krasko'', ''Janko Cigáň'', 12 July 1876 in Lukovištia (''Lukovistye'') – 3 March 1958 in Bratislava) was a Slovak poet, translator and representative of moder ...
*3. Vesper Dominicae - Ivan Krasko
*4. Letí Havran, Letí ("Fly crow, fly")
Svetozár Hurban Vajanský
*5. Nôžka ("The little leg") Svetozár Hurban Vajanský
*6. Uspávanka ("Lullaby") from the publication ''Nový Nápev Na Prostonárodné Slová''
*7. Keď Na Deň Zvoniť Mali ("When in the morning rings the bell") Ivan Krasko
Ivan Krasko: Nox et solitudo (Noc a samota)
"Keď na deň zvoniť mali, vyšli sme, za prítmia, za šera, verili, že snáď k večeru vráti sa dôvera. A celý, celý deň sme sami šli, v dôvere, bez oddychu, dúfali, že snáď unavení skrotíme krutú pýchu ... A večerom dva spolu došli sme, bez večery, nesvojskí – a jedno srdce skučalo po psovsky, po psovsky ... (Ivan Krasko)"
*8. Magdaléna - Vladimír Roy
Recordings
* Štefan Margita
Štefan Margita (born 3 August 1956) is a opera singer of Slovak origin who has had an active international career since 1981. He began his career singing mostly roles from the lyric tenor repertoire but in recent years he has tackled a number o ...
, 2006
References
Slovak songs
Songs in Slovak
1909 songs
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