Big Hall of Music Academy Klausenburg/Cluj, 8. 11. 2015
Irena Troupová – soprano
Jan Dušek – piano
I. Claire Vénus
II. On voit mourir
III. Je vis, je meurs
IV. Luth, compagnon
V. Baise m’encor
VI. Oh si j’etais
Czech soprano Irena Troupová, who began her career as an early-music specialist, is a gratifyingly clear exponent of these challenging, grippingly individual songs. They demand complete musical and intonational assurance, which she provides in abundance. She’s comfortable with the angular intervallic leaps of “Aus dem Häuschen in den Garten,” another Steffen verse, and a song such as “Sonnenuntergang,” with its treacherously high middle section, could easily have sounded shrill in the hands of an artist with less vocal control. Troupová even sounds right at home with the Drei Jiddische Lieder, the standout of which is “A Mejdel in die Johren,” with its mix of tragedy, reproach and humor.
Joshua Rosenblum, operanews.com, March 2016.
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Troupová-Wilke is entirely at ease with the demands of all of the songs on this recording. One clearly cannot escape those wide leaps and chromatic intervals, but she sings them with a rhetoric than makes them sound perfectly natural. Dušek is, for the most part, a supporting accompanist; but every now and then Ullmann provides him with a passage that advances into the foreground. Hopefully this album will encourage more soprano vocalists to explore this highly engaging repertoire.
Stephen Smoliar, The Examiner, 28. 09. 2015
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Festival MusicOlomouc 2015, 26. 4. 2015
Irena Troupová – soprano
Prague Modern:
David Danel – violin
Ondřej Martinovský – viola
Balázs Adorján – cello
Ivan Šiller – piano
Irena Troupová – soprano
Brno Contemporary Orchestra
Irena Troupová – soprano
Jiřina Dvořáková – positive organ
Jan Krejča – theorbo
Irena Troupová – soprano
Annie Laflamme – traverso
José Vázquez – viola da gamba
Ewald Donhoffer – cembalo
Musica aneb prastarý příběh, který andělé přenášejí z času do času (1978), Kostel sv. Vavřince, 10. 10. 2010
Irena Troupová – soprano
Clara Nováková – flute
Jan Thuri – oboe
Monika Knoblochová – harpsichord
Patrik Děrgel – Muzikant
Dušan Sitek – Pán