An original selection of Leoš Janáček’s works released on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the composer’s death
In connection with the previous compilation, The Many Loves of Antonín Dvořák, which met with favourable response from reviewers in the USA and in the UK, we asked the BBC 3 long-time music producer and one of the great experts in and lovers of Czech music and its recordings, Patrick Lambert, to compile a similar series dedicated to the Moravian master. Its name alone – Many Passions – reflects Janáček’s temperament and the selection is a result of thorough research into his personality. The composer approached all life’s changes with a wide range of emotions. Therefore, eight categories were created and got the same names as Janáček’s passions: the Folk Tradition; the Czech Case – Politics and Patriotism; Family; Life and Nature; Friendship with Dvořák; Women; Russian Literature; Religious Roots. The set contains famous pieces, such as Sinfonietta, Taras Bulba, Glagolitic Mass, Jenůfa and The Cunning Little Vixen, as well as many discoveries that put Janáček’s work into context, e.g. his choruses Seventy-thousand and The Czech Legion, the Danube Symphony, Prelude in G minor for organ and a fragment of his Mass in E flat major.
The selection of performers includes the classics of Janáček interpretation from Brno and Prague and some unique archival recordings as well as many new ones. Among the conductors are Břetislav Bakala, František Jílek, Jaroslav Vogel, Václav Neumann, Karel Ančerl, Bohumil Gregor, Sir Charles Mackerras and Jakub Hrůša, and other performers include important Bohemian and Moravian choirs, soloists Theodor Šrubař, Beno Blachut, Libuše Domanínská and Gabriela Beňačková, and instrumentalists Josef Suk, Ilja Hurník, Jan Panenka, the Janáček Quartet and the Pavel Haas Quartet. The choice of compositions deeply reflects Janáček’s greatly varied music, paying homage to the most remarkable 20th-century Czech composer on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of his death and celebrating the unique richness of Supraphon’s archives.
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Works:
CD 1
•Rákos Rákoczy, JW I/2: Introduction
• Rákos Rákoczy, JW I/2: Musicians
• Rákos Rákoczy, JW I/2: The Mosquitoes Got Married
• Folk Nocturnes, JW IV/32: A Girl Was Mowing the Meadow
• Folk Nocturnes, JW IV/32: Our Rosy Janycko
• Folk Nocturnes, JW IV/32: The Little Swallow Has Flown High
• Suite for Orchestra, Op. 3, JW VI/6: Allegretto
• Suite for Orchestra, Op. 3, JW VI/6: Con moto
• Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs, JW V/2: Parting
• Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs, JW V/2: Game Warden
• Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs, JW V/2: The Little Letter
• Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs, JW V/2: Constancy
• Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs, JW V/2: My Lover's Horses
• Silesian Songs, JW V/13: Hey, What Nightingale Is This One
• Jenufa, JW I/4: My vás dlouho zabavovat nebudem - Ej, mamko, mamko
• The Cunning Little Vixen, JW I/9: A Vixenn's Running Through the Woods...
• Sinfonietta, JW VI/18: Allegretto
Piano Sonata 1. X. 1905 in E flat minor From the Street: Presentiment. Con moto
• Pevecké sdruzeni moravskych ucitelu 70 000, JW VIII/19
• The Excursions of Mr. Broucek, JW I/7: Bud vule tvá jako v nebi, tak i v zemi
• The Excursions of Mr. Broucek, JW I/7: The Czech Legion, JW IV/42
• Capriccio for Piano Left-hand and Wind Instruments, JW VII/12: The Ballad of Blanik, JW VI/16
• Sinfonietta, JW VI/18: Allegretto
•Sinfonietta, JW VI/18: Andante con moto - Allegretto
CD 2
• Folk Poetry of Hukvaldy in Songs, JW V/4: You Little church of Hukvaldy, hey
• Folk Poetry of Hukvaldy inSongs, JW V/4: May God Reward You!
• Folk Poetry of Hukvaldy in Songs, JW V/4: The Reeve's Hanka
• Youth, JW 7/10: Vivace (March of the Bluebirds)
• Amarus, JW III/6: III. Moderato
•Thema con variazioni, JW VIII/6: Andante - Allegro - Con moto - Con moto
• Adagio in D minor, JW VI/5
• Jenufa, JW I/4: Act2, Janufa's Lament: Kde je Stevuska... Toz umrel...
• On an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17: In Tears. Larghetto
• On an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17: The Barn Owl Has Not Flown Away! Andante
• Elegy on the Death of my Daughter Olga, JW IV/30
• Fate, JW I/5: I've Got Wings Today and the Song of a Bird
• In the Mists, JW VIII/22: Andantino
• On an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17: They Chattered Like Swalows
•Katya Kabanova, JW I/8: Vis, co mi napadlo - Povidám, proc lidé nelétaji"
• The Excursions of Mr. Broucek: Before Dawn
• Concertino, JW VII/11: Con moto
• The Cunning Little Vixen, JW I/9: Is It aFairy-Tale or Is It All True?
CD 3 The Lachian Dances, JW VI/7: celadná Dance
• The Lachian Dances, JW VI/17: The Saws
• Four Male Choruses, JW IV/17: Oh Love!
• Four Male Choruses, JW IV/17: Oh War
•Idyll for String, JW VI/3: Scherzo
•Dumka for Violin and Piano in C minor, JW VII/4
• The Fiddler's Child, JW VI/14
• Jenufa, JW I/4: Act 2, Scene 5 - A Moment
• Fate, JW I/5: Act - Scene 1: Mila's Confession: A brzo prisel teskny dozvuk vseho
• The Diary of One Who Disappeared, JW V/12: Do Not Gaze, Oxen
• The Diary of One Who Disappeared, JW V/12: Welcome, Janicek, Welcome to the Forest!
• The Diary of One Who Disappeared, JW V/12: God Above U, Lord Immortal. Un poco piu mosso
• Katya Kabanova, JW I/8: Is It You, Katierina Petrovna?
• The Cunning Little Vixen: Andante - Moderato - Allegro
• The Makropulos Case, JW I/10: Act 3: Now I Am Sure That Death Laid His Hand on Me
• String Quartet No. 2, JW VII/13 "Intimate Letters": Adagio. Vivace
• The Danub, JW IX/7: Allegro
•Intimate Sketches, JW VIII/33: I Wait for You
CD 4 Fairy Tale for Cello and Piano, JW VII/5: Con moto
• String Quartet No. 1 "after Tolstoy Kreutzer Sonata", JW VII/8: Con moto. Vivo. Andante
• Taras Bulba, JW VI/15: The Death of Andrei
• Katya Kabanova, JW I/8: Introduction
• From the House of the Death, JW I/8: Finale
• Prelude for Organ in G minor, JW VIII/2
• Graduale in festo Purificationis BMV, JW II/9 "Suscepimus Deus"
• Mass in E flat major, JW IX/5 "Unfinished Mass": Kyrie. Con agnoscia pesante
• On an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17: The Frydek Madonna
• Jenufa, JW I/4: Mother Dear, My Head Feels Heavy
• The Eternal Gospel, JW I/8: Con moto
• Lord, have mercy!, JW III/5
• Glagolitic Mass, JW III/9: Introduction
- Glagolitic Mass, JW III/9: Kyrie eleison
- Glagolitic Mass, JW III/9: Gloria
- Glagolitic Mass, JW III/9: Agnus Dei
- Glagolitic Mass, JW III/9: Postludium
-Glagolitic Mass, JW III/9: Eodus