SONGS ABOUT A HEART FILLED WITH MEMORIES

WHAT DOROTA BAROVÁ FOUND BEHIND THE MIRROR?

For so long we have associated the singer, cellist and composer with the melodious Polish language, that we could not imagine that she would replace it with Czech in the songs growing out of intimate chamber music. And if that did happen, we were interested in how they would sound in the new one; after so many years, perhaps even with minor concerns. Unnecessary, and actually inappropriate, after all, we are talking about Dorota, who is concerned with musical beauty in any language. She was inspired to sing in Czech on the album Píseň pro Mi by the passing of her close friend, artist and poet Michaela Vejnarová (1979–2023), to whom she wanted to pay her respects and who she felt was appropriate for us to understand her grief and perhaps learn “what is seen in the mirror and what awaits behind it”.
For so long we have associated the singer, cellist and composer with the melodious Polish language, that we could not imagine that she would replace it with Czech in the songs growing out of intimate chamber music. And if that did happen, we were interested in how they would sound in the new one; after so many years, perhaps even with minor concerns. Unnecessary, and actually inappropriate, after all, we are talking about Dorota, who is concerned with musical beauty in any language. She was inspired to sing in Czech on the album Píseň pro Mi by the passing of her close friend, artist and poet Michaela Vejnarová (1979–2023), to whom she wanted to pay her respects and who she felt was appropriate for us to understand her grief and perhaps learn “what is seen in the mirror and what awaits behind it”.

Photos by Helena Kadlčíková