ArcoDiva UP 0256 (2025). Total running time: 55:06. Recorded 17 June 2022 (16), 6 August 2022 (9, 10, 14–15), 6–7 August 2022 (1–7), and 12–14 August 2024 (8, 13, 17–19) at HAMU, Prague; and 26 June 2023 (11, 12) at Vesmir Ostrava. Available from presto music and other outlets.

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.

About the artists:

Canticum Ostrava, under the leadership of Yuri Galatenko, has become one the most remarkable women's choirs in the Czech Republic. 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. 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 finest of an outstanding group of current Czech string quartets that represent their country in major concert halls around the world. 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.

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.

Please note that the music recorded on this compact disc is in print. Click here for the complete discography of Kapralova's music.

Sopranistka Olga Jelinkova a klavirista Timothy Cheek jsou pro pisnovy cyklus interprety takrka idealnimi: Olga Jelinkova zpiva vsechny pisne tak presvedcive, uprimne a s takovym vnitrnim prozitkem, ze ji verime kazde slovo, kazdy ton. Americky pianista Timothy Cheek se dovede dokonale vcitit do vokalniho partu a je Olze Jelinkove skvelym umeleckym partnerem. K nejhezcim cislum tohoto CD patri Dva zenske sbory a cappella, op. 17, ktere Kapralova napsala v letech 1936–1937. Svezi a bezprostredni provedeni sborem Canticum Ostrava pod vedenim Aleny Hron je peclive propracovane do nejjemnejsich detailu.
— Klasika Plus, August 7, 2025.

Excellently performed and recorded, with a variety of music to suit allcomers, the CD fills important gaps in the known Kapralova catalogue.
– Dvorak Society Newsletter no. 152, November 2025.

Titul ma mnoho nalad, emoci a upominek. Premierove natocena hudba je bajecne interpretovana sopranistkou Olgou Jelinkovou [a] Timothym Cheekem.
– polyharmonie.cz, January 23, 2026.