Release Date: 01 January 2015
Label: Chandos - Sacd / Chandos
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 095115515624
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Janacek
Description
This is the second volume in our series devoted to the orchestral works of Janá?ek, with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Edward Gardner. The repertoire on this disc includes some of the greatest programmatic pieces by the composer. Unsurprisingly, the first piece featured here is Jealousy - his first declared piece of programme music, originally written to preface the opera Jen?fa but never included in any production of it during his lifetime. Both The Ballad of Blaník and The Fiddler's Child (also known as a 'ballad for orchestra') are characterised by the use of musicals symbols, reflecting the Czech poems on which the pieces are based and also some of the composer's personal reflections and responses. The one-movement violin concerto The Wandering of a Little Soul is a more mysterious piece, with uncertainties surrounding the title, the date of creation, and the goals of its composition. Like the unfinished Danube symphony, the version recorded here has been reconstructed by Miloš Št?dro? and Leoš Faltus from Janá?ek's sketches. An interpretation of the famous tale by Gogol, Taras Bulba was completed in 1915 and was Janá?ek's most substantial orchestral work to date. It is inflected with folk dances, battle and horse-riding music, suffering and love, and brought to a grandiloquent apotheosis, in orchestration of almost cinematic vividness.
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
