Janáček: Jenufa
Elisabeth Söderström (Jenufa), Wieslav Ochman (Laca), Eva Randová (Kostelnicka), Petr Dvorsky (Steva), Lucia Popp (Karolka), Marie Mrázová (Stařenka Buryjovka), Václav Zitek (Mill Foreman), Dalibor Jedlicka (Mayor), Ivana Mixová (Mayor's Wife), Vera Soukupová (Herdswoman), Jindra Pokorná (Barena),...
Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1984, Winner - Opera
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Building A Library, May 2022, Recommended Recording
Söderström is powerfully complemented by Ochman's restless Laca and Randová's Kostelnicka.
Janáček: Jenufa
Elisabeth Söderström (Jenufa), Wieslav Ochman (Laca), Eva Randová (Kostelnicka), Petr Dvorsky (Steva), Lucia Popp (Karolka), Marie Mrázová (Stařenka Buryjovka), Václav Zitek (Mill Foreman), Dalibor Jedlicka (Mayor), Ivana Mixová (Mayor's Wife), Vera Soukupová (Herdswoman), Jindra Pokorná (Barena),...
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Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1984, Winner - Opera
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Building A Library, May 2022, Recommended Recording
Söderström is powerfully complemented by Ochman's restless Laca and Randová's Kostelnicka.
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Contents and tracklist
- Elisabeth Söderström (soprano), Jana Jonasova (soprano), Peter Dvorsky (tenor), Marie Mrazova (contralto), Vaclav Zitek (tenor), Eva Randová (mezzo-soprano), Wieslaw Ochman (tenor), Jindra Pokorna (soprano), Vera Soukupova (mezzo-soprano), Ivana Mixova (mezzo-soprano), Dalibor Jedlicka (bass), Lucia Popp (soprano)
- Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsoper
- Sir Charles Mackerras
- Recorded: 1982-04-17
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
- Eva Randová (mezzo-soprano), Wieslaw Ochman (tenor), Elisabeth Söderström (soprano)
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Sir Charles Mackerras
- Recorded: 1982-04-17
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Sir Charles Mackerras
- Recorded: 1979-11-26
- Recording Venue: Sofiensaal, Vienna
Awards and reviews
April 2008
Söderström is powerfully complemented by Ochman's restless Laca and Randová's Kostelnicka.
2010
Janácek's first operatic masterpiece is a towering work, blending searing intensity with heart-stopping lyricism.
It tells of Jenufa and the appalling treatment she receives as she's caught between the man she loves and another who finally comes to love her. But dominating the story is the Kostelnicka, a figure of enormous strength, pride and inner resource who rules Jenufa's life and ultimately kills her baby. Randová's characterisation of the role of the Kostelnicka is frightening in its intensity yet has a very human core. The two men are well cast and act as fine foils to Söderström's deeply impressive Jenufa. The Vienna Philharmonic plays beautifully and Mackerras directs magnificently. The recording is all one could wish for and the booklet is a mine of informed scholarship.
2011 edition
deeply sympathetic, strongly dramatic and superbly recorded...dominating the whole drama is the Kostelnicka of Eva Randova.
