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Jiri Belohlavek & the Czech Philharmonic in Janacek
[…] Fiddler's Child a delightful work which ought to be on concert programmes more.This is a superb addition to Jiri Belohlavek's discography, and certainly must rank as a must-have disc, even if you have Sir Charles Mackerras' account of the original version of Janacek's Glagolitic Mass. Leos Janacek (1854-1928) - Glagolitic MassLeos Janacek - SinfoniettaLeos Janacek - Taras BulbaLeos Janacek- The Fiddler's ChildHibla Gerzmava (soprano)Veronika Hajnova (alto)Stuart Neill (tenor)Jan Martinik (bass)Ales Barta (organ)Prague Philharmonic Choir (Lukas Vasilek, chorus master)Czech Philharmonic OrchestraJiri Belohlavek (conductor)Recorded in the Rudolfinum, Prague, 3 & 4 October 2013, 22-24 October 2014, 1 & 2 October 2015, 22-24 February 2017.DECCA 483 4080 2CDS [64.27, 35.51]Available from AmazonElsewhere on this blog: Vital & optimistic: Halle Children's Choir in Jonathan Dove's A Brief History of Creation (★★★½) - CD review Late Romantic: I chat to pianist Margaret Fingerhut - Interview Decades - songs from 1830-1840, Malcolm Martineau […]
2016-12-15 16:30:27
Prague Philharmonic Choir/Vasilek (Supraphon)In the late 1950s, Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959) turned his mind to Moravian folk poetry – images of the Czech highlands where he grew up – and wrote four little cantatas with wistful names such as Romance of the Dandelions and Legend of Smoke from Potato Tops. The last one, Mikes of the Mountains, tells of a shepherd who saves his goats from a snowstorm. It all tastes of soil and nostalgia, but these are more than simple rustic tone paintings. Martinů instructed that they shouldn’t sound sentimental and he spliced the folksy choral passages with stark harmonies and off-kilter percussive stuff. Instrumentation includes accordion and “drumming on a chair” – the sounds creak, jolt, motor and soothe. The Prague choir gets the balance right: vivid character and resonant voices but never saccharine and rhythmically taut. This is the ensemble that premiered three of the cantatas (in a previous […]
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