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Iva Bittová is a great musical artist

Michael | Denver, CO USA | 05/02/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"In this CD, Iva Bittová explores old and new ideas, blending a lovely variety of colorful features into true audible masterpieces. The CD starts with her quartet in a quiet mood beginning with some very thoughtful violin solo sounds. In this quartet, Iva Bittová is giving us a window into her own special and beautiful world. The CD spans a very inclusive range from charming traditional Czech folk music to compelling tonally explorational works which abound in moments that are at times thoughtful, then exciting, beautiful, inventive and sometimes delightfully humorous. I highly recommend this wonderful and imaginative masterpiece and I think Iva Bittová should be even more well known!"

A step

francoisd | Paris, France | 01/03/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Yes, an important step for this rare artist who play here with a quatuor, with choir, instead of solo or with the percussionist Pavel Fajt or the guitarist Vaclavec, as in her (excelent) previous records. the music is soft, surprising, inspiration is obviously from traditionnal czech music, and also from more actual music (Bartok..) Iva Bittova sings all along the music, with her usual sincerity, and polymorphic voice, dressing the music with a new emotion. Of course she is still playing violin, alone or together with the quatuor, in her usual expressive, fresh and spontaneous way. Could we hope that this is not the last record in this direction ?"