Vítězslava Kaprálová - Elegy

Czech composer and conductor Vítězslava Kaprálová (1915-1940) enjoyed a successful career before her untimely death, aged 25, in 1940. Written the year before she died, this elegy commemorates the life and work of writer Karel Čapek, and was Kaprálová’s final composition for violin and piano. The piece has a distinctive Eastern European sound and invokes a continuous feeling of agitation which rises and falls with each phrase.

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Credits:
Cleo Annandale (violin)
Tom Crathorne (piano & sound editing)

Cleo graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music in December 2019, where she studied with Yossi Zivoni. She enjoys a varied freelance career and regularly works with professional orchestras throughout North West England. Cleo plays second violin in the Anella Quartet and teaches both as a private violin teacher, and as a classroom music teacher in Greater Manchester Primary Schools. She also plays with the Ignition Orchestra, with whom she appeared on the Graham Norton Show and more recently, BBC Three’s ‘The Rap Game’.

Tom Crathorne is a collaborative pianist and composer based in Sheffield, UK. His appointments as a collaborative pianist vary from accompanist and rehearsal pianist to musical director and conductor, and have seen him working in numerous regional theatres and classical venues across the UK. Compositionally, he specialises in situational idiomatic notation, and is researching the creative application of spatial/semantic perceptions within music.

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This performance has been recorded in compliance with the UK Government's COVID-19 health & safety guidelines. In accordance with these guidelines, each part was recorded separately and then edited together.

Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.