In connection with the previous compilation, The Many Loves of AntonÃn DvorÃ¡k, 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 it's recordings, Patrick Lambert, to compile a similar series dedicated to the Moravian master. It's name alone - Many Passions - reflects JanÃ¡cek'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 JanÃ¡cek's passions: the Folk Tradition; the Czech Case - Politics and Patriotism; Family; Life and Nature; Friendship with DvorÃ¡k; Women; Russian Literature; Religious Roots. The set contains famous pieces, such as Sinfonietta, Taras Bulba, Glagolitic Mass, Jenufa and The Cunning Little Vixen, as well as many discoveries that put JanÃ¡cek'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 JanÃ¡cek interpretation from Brno and Prague and some unique archival recordings as well as many new ones. Among the conductors are Bretislav Bakala, Frantisek JÃlek, Jaroslav Vogel, VÃ¡clav Neumann, Karel Ancerl, Bohumil Gregor, Sir Charles Mackerras and Jakub Hrusa, and other performers include important Bohemian and Moravian choirs, soloists Theodor Srubar, Beno Blachut, Libuse DomanÃnskÃ¡ and Gabriela BenackovÃ¡, and instrumentalists Josef Suk, Ilja HurnÃk, Jan Panenka, the JanÃ¡cek Quartet and the Pavel Haas Quartet. The choice of compositions deeply reflects JanÃ¡cek'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. An original selection of Leos JanÃ¡cek's works released on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the composer's death

UPC: 099925432829
Label: Supraphon
Release Date: 8.25.23
Format: CD

Janacek / Domaninska / Benackova - Many Passions Of Leos Janacek (CD)