VÍTĚZ BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE AWARDS 2020 a GRAMOPHONE CLASSICAL MUSIC AWARDS 2020
V létě roku 2018 se Václava podílela na vzniku CD pro londýnské vydavatelství Hyperion. Spolu s tenoristou Nicky Spancem a klavíristou Juliem Drakem natočili Zápisník zmizelého a Moravskou lidovou poezii v písni skladatele Leoše Janáčka. V roce 2020 získalo CD prestižní cenu BBC Music Magazine Award a Gramophone Classical Music Award.
There’s no shortage of earthiness to match the toiling rustic metaphors of the early songs, while the first encounters with Václava Housková’s rich-sounding and seductive Zefka (the Czech mezzo captures the girl’s wilfulness and wildness beautifully) are full of tender dreaminess.
..Then Spence and Housková pick up their double act once more in the irresistible Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs. It’s a performance that captures the set’s characteristic mix of humour and melancholy beautifully, with too many lovely touches to list; but listen out for how Housková turns from the soulfulness of ‘Heat from my love’ to kick off the angular syncopations of ‘Constancy’, or the way the two bring almost unbearable tenderness to ‘Who’s the posy for?’.
