Choral, Janáček (composer)
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[Bělohlávek] could get under the skin of Janacek’s music, drawing out its folk roots and speech rhythms, its soul-searching and truthfulness, its sheer humanity. The main work here is the Glagolitic... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st August 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Building a Library, June 2019, Also Recommended
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Janacek: Glagolitic Mass & Taras Bulba
RecommendedEduard Haken (bass), Vera Soukupova (contralto), Beno Blachut (tenor), Libuse Domaninska (soprano), Jaroslav Vodrazka (organ)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic Choir (=Czech Philharmonic Chorus), Karel Ancerl, Josef Veselka
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Building a Library, April 2005, First Choice
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Building a Library, February 2003, First Choice
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Building a Library, June 2019, Recommended Recording
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Life with Czech Music - Janacek & Martinu
RecommendedElisabeth Söderström (soprano), Drahomira Drobkova (contralto), Frantisek Livora (tenor), Richard Novak (bass), Jan Hora (organ), Kvetoslava Nemeckova (soprano), Leo Marian Vodicka (tenor), Vaclav Zitek (baritone), Josef Ruzicka (piano), Jan Bouse (timpani), Eva Urbanova (soprano), Bernarda Fink...
Even the recording acoustic is warm, enough sometimes to curl the music’s edges and smudge away little details. But Mackerras’s handling of this repertoire is so fresh, so responsive to the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Choral
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Janacek & Kodaly: Choral Works
RecommendedTina Kiberg (soprano), Randi Stene (contralto), Peter Svensson (tenor), Ulrik Cold (bass), Per Salo (organ)
Copenhagen Boys` Choir, Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra & Choir, Sir Charles Mackerras
The added rhythmic complexities of this original version as interpreted idiomatically by Mackerras encourage an apt wildness which brings an exuberant, carefree quality —
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Janacek: Glagolitic Mass & Sinfonietta
Christiane Libor (soprano), Ewa Marciniec (alto), Timothy Bentch (tenor), Wojciech Gierlach (bass) & Jarosław Malanowicz (organ)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, with Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit
There are many attractive aspects to this performance, not least the heroic tenor of Timothy Bench and the full-throated singing of the sopranos and altos. Too often, however, the delivery of... —
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These 12 arrangements (by the ensemble) are of stylistic and historical diversity...Muhly’s Look for Me invests a US folk song with dark jazz; Janacek’s Zdenka Variations is an appealing discovery. —
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Special offer. Janacek: Choral Music
Amanda Pitt (soprano), James MacDougall & Daniel Norman (tenors)
New London Chamber Choir, The Critical Band, James Wood
These performances strike me as nearly ideal … this enchanting Hyperion disc —
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Netopil directs an excellent performance which, appropriately enough, reflects the operatic world of The Cunning Little Vixen and the Excursions of Mr Broucek...[the Credo] is beautifully shaped... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2014, Editor's Choice
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Janáček: Glagolitic Mass, Sinfonietta
Malin Byström (soprano), Johann Vexo (organ), Ladislav Elgr (tenor), Adam Plachetka (baritone), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano), Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno, Marko Letonja
Soloists and chorus are superb, but the orchestral playing is often a touch tentative. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Janacek: Glagolitic Mass & The Eternal Gospel
RecommendedEva Drizgova (soprano), Hana Stolfova (contralto), Vladimir Dolezal (tenor), Jiri Sulzenko (bass), Martin Jakubicek (organ)
Czech Symphony Orchestra, Brno, Czech Philharmonic Choir, Leos Svarovsky
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