SACD, Janáček (composer)
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Janacek: Orchestral Works Vol. 3
Sara Jakubiak (soprano), Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Stuart Skelton (tenor), Gábor Bretz (bass) & Thomas Trotter (organ), David Stewart (violin), Karstein Askeland (organ), Johannes Wik (harp)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Choir & Choir of Collegiûm Mûsicûm,...
Gardner steers the clash of brass, strings, chorus and soloists with confidence, the instrumental outer movements ablaze with excitement, the whole well balanced but still dangerous and invigorating. — More…
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Otto Klemperer conducts the Concertgebouw Orchestra
Legendary Amsterdam Concerts 1947-1961
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
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Janacek: Glagolitic Mass & Taras Bulba
Aga Mikolaj (soprano), Iris Vermillion (contralto), Stuart Neill (tenor), Arutjun Kotchinian (bass)
RundfunkSinfonieorchester & Chor Berlin, Marek Janowski
A lean, cleanly contoured Glagolitic, lacking the elemental charge and raw abandon of some versions. Taras Bulba is generally well played, if again short on real cutting edge and excitement. — More…
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These 12 arrangements (by the ensemble) are of stylistic and historical diversity...Muhly’s Look for Me invests a US folk song with dark jazz; Janacek’s Zdenka Variations is an appealing discovery. — More…
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Janacek: Amarus
Live performances from Czech Radio, Smetana Hall, Prague
Vera Soukupová & Vilém Pribyl
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Václav Neumann, František Jílek
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Leos Janácek - Orchestral Works
Gweneth-Ann Jeffers (soprano) & Adrian Thompson (tenor)
Edinburgh Festival Chorus & BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov
Fans of the Glagolitic Mass should definitely make a beeline for Janácek's 1913 cantata The EternalGospel. Radiating a comparable spiritual and theatrical fervour, it's a setting of a text by... — More…
