If you love Janácek, you probably already own these recordings because to love Janácek means to love his five greatest operas, his supreme artistic achievements, and to love his five final operas means to love these recordings, by common agreement the best performances any of them ever received. The central reason for this is the conducting of ...
It's hard to think of a twentieth century Czech-language opera that has enjoyed more success than Leos Janácek's Jenufa, and there is certainly no shortage of good recordings of it, including one in English. Among the most exceptional is this 1983 effort for Decca led by Charles Mackerras, now revived in its The Originals series. Elisabeth S ...
Despite its arcane Latin title, Supraphon's four-CD set Musica Antiqua Citolibensis delivers on a part of the literature that coheres: the music created by local kapellmeisters in the Czech city of Citoliby. Although located outside of the loop of Bohemia's main cultural centers such as Prague and Brno, Citoliby enjoyed a period of primacy in ...
Everybody loves Kát'a Kabanova. Alexander Ostrovsky, the Russian playwright who turned her tragic story into popular art, loved her and lavished one of his most moving plays on her. Leos Janácek, the Czech composer who turned Ostrovsky's play into an opera, loved her and lavished some of his most beautiful music on her. And Decca, the English ...
It's hard to think of a twentieth century Czech-language opera that has enjoyed more success than Leos Janácek's Jenufa, and there is certainly no shortage of good recordings of it. Among the most exceptional is this effort for Decca led by Charles Mackerras. Elisabeth Söderström is riveting in her portrayal of the small-town girl desperate that ...
While there are listeners who love Stravinsky's Les Noces, they are far fewer in number than those who love Firebird or Petrushka or Le Sacre. One can readily sympathize since most performances of Les Noces have all the subtle charm of an amputation without anesthetic. There are fewer listeners yet who love Stravinsky's Cantata and fewer still who ...
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