Janacek: Choral Music - James Wood, New London Chamber Choir (2012)
EAC Rip | Flac (Image + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 258 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Helios | Catalog Number: 55398
EAC Rip | Flac (Image + cue + log) | 1 CD | Full Scans | 258 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Helios | Catalog Number: 55398
This recording features a wide variety of works by the Czech composer Leoš Janá„ek, ranging from the mayhem of the “íkadla nursery rhymes and the description of the shameful antics of Mr Kašpar Rucký to the serene beauty of the Lord’s Prayer setting. Several of the pieces are only rarely performed—even today when the composer’s reputation is growing fast—and are little known outside the Slavic choral tradition which so influenced their style.
Composer: Leos Janácek
Performer: Daniel Norman, Jamie MacDougall, Clive Williamson, Amanda Pitt, …
Conductor: James Wood
Orchestra/Ensemble: New London Chamber Chorus, Critical Band
Reviews: Janácek's Nursery Rhymes (?íkadla) sound particularly youthful, but they were written in the composer's final years of glory. The eighteen songs are accompanied by a tiny wind band, including an ocarina, with occasional contributions from double bass, piano, harp, organ, and some delicate percussion. The music is close in spirit to that of The Cunning Little Vixen, and has, if anything, even more charm than that miraculous opera. This presentation is captivating—even more so than that on a Chandos disc reviewed in Fanfare 19:4. There the playing is more virtuosic and the recorded sound fuller, but the net effect is less intimate.
The remaining pieces are more serious, ranging from a humorous tracing of the life and death of the philandering rogue Kašpar Rucký to the patriotic tragedy of The 70,000 and the personal one of Elegy. Clive Williamson is the sensitive pianist in the latter. This is all gorgeous music, none more so than the haunting Hrad?any Songs for female voices with minimal accompaniments.
These performances strike me as nearly ideal, although a solo soprano and tenor strain a bit in one number each. Production values are equally high, from recorded sound to the inclusion of complete texts in Czech and English. Although the booklet lists more than forty members of the New London Chamber Choir, most songs are sung by smaller groups; besides the listed soloists, choir members are also given small solo parts. Although I find the singing graceful and convincingly idiomatic, it does not sound especially Czech; I suspect that native speakers will hear a foreign accent, so they might prefer the Chandos disc, on which ?íkadla is sung by nine students from a Prague music academy. That is the only possible quibble I can imagine about this enchanting Hyperion disc.
Tracklisting:
1. Seventy thousand by Leos Janácek
Performer: Daniel Norman (Tenor)
Conductor: James Wood
Orchestra/Ensemble: New London Chamber Chorus
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1909; Brno, Czech Republic
2. Ave Maria by Leos Janácek
Conductor: James Wood
Orchestra/Ensemble: New London Chamber Chorus
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1883; Brno, Czech Republic
3. Elegy on the death of my daughter Olga by Leos Janácek
Performer: Jamie MacDougall (Tenor)
Conductor: James Wood
Orchestra/Ensemble: New London Chamber Chorus
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1903/1904; Czech Republic
4. The wolf's trail by Leos Janácek
Performer: Clive Williamson (Piano), Amanda Pitt (Soprano)
Conductor: James Wood
Orchestra/Ensemble: New London Chamber Chorus
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1916; Czech Republic
5. Kaspar Rucky by Leos Janácek
Performer: Amanda Pitt (Soprano)
Conductor: James Wood
Orchestra/Ensemble: New London Chamber Chorus
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1916; Czech Republic
6. Songs of Hradcany by Leos Janácek
Performer: Hugh Webb (Harp), Amanda Pitt (Soprano), Will Sleath (Flute)
Conductor: James Wood
Orchestra/Ensemble: New London Chamber Chorus
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1916; Czech Republic
7. Nursery rhymes by Leos Janácek
Conductor: James Wood
Orchestra/Ensemble: New London Chamber Chorus, Critical Band
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1927; Brno, Czech Republic
8. Our Father by Leos Janácek
Performer: Hugh Webb (Harp), Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (Organ), Jamie MacDougall (Tenor)
Conductor: James Wood
Orchestra/Ensemble: New London Chamber Chorus
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1901/1906; Brno, Czech Republic
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