Release Date: 09 January 2014
Label: Chandos - Sacd / Chandos
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 095115514221
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Janacek
Description
Edward Gardner conducts the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in the opening volume in their series devoted to orchestral works by Leoš Janá?ek. It features three pieces that originate in Janá?ek's late period, when his passionate feelings for Kamila Stösslová, thirty-seven years his junior, inspired an extraordinary flowering of his creative genius.The Sinfonietta is one of Janá?ek's most successful and popular works, famed for its opening movement, a brazen fanfare scored for a phalanx of brass with timpani. The remaining four movements, full of character, celebrate Janá?ek's adopted town of Brno, blending occasional reflection with high-voltage exuberance. Scored unusually for left-hand piano and an ensemble of brass and flute, the Capriccio is remarkable even among Janá?ek's distinctive late works. Its overall effect is mercurial and capricious, in the composer's words: 'whimsical, all wilfulness and witticisms'. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet employs his formidable technique and interpretative flair in the solo part. The Cunning Little Vixen, Janá?ek's opera from 1923, was not universally well received at first. A number of its orchestral interludes, however, were immediately popular and after Janá?ek's death in 1928 Václav Talich, a leading Czech conductor, extracted an orchestral suite, re-orchestrated by two young colleagues. Recently Sir Charles Mackerras restored Janá?ek's striking original orchestration, the version recorded here.
Tracklisting
Jonathan Aasgaard; Sinfonia of London; John Wilson
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; Halle Choir; John Storgards
Janacek:Martinu:Haas
Sara Dowling; Aquarelle Guitar Quartet
Dame Sarah Connolly; Joseph Middleton
James Ehnes; BBC Philharmonic; Juanjo Mena
Doric String Quartet
Zeb Soanes; Britten Sinfonia Voices; Britten Sinfonia; Jamie Phillips
