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Edward Gardner, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra - Janacek: Orchestral Works, Vol.1 (2014) [SACD]

Edward Gardner, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra - Janacek: Orchestral Works, Vol.1 (2014) [SACD]
  • Title: Janacek: Orchestral Works, Vol.1
  • Year Of Release: 2014
  • Label: Chandos [CHSA 5142]
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: DSD64 image (*.iso) / 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz
  • Total Time: 01:03:23
  • Total Size: 3,12 GB (+3%rec.)
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Edward Gardner conducts the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in the opening volume in their series devoted to orchestral works by Leoš Janácek. It features three pieces that originate in Janácek’s late period, when his passionate feelings for Kamila Stösslová, thirty-seven years his junior, inspired an extraordinary flowering of his creative genius.

The Sinfonietta is one of Janácek’s most successful and popular works, famed for its opening movement, a brazen fanfare scored for a phalanx of brass with timpani. The remaining four movements, full of character, celebrate Janácek’s adopted town of Brno, blending occasional reflection with high-voltage exuberance.

Scored unusually for left-hand piano and an ensemble of brass and flute, the Capriccio is remarkable even among Janácek’s distinctive late works. Its overall effect is mercurial and capricious, in the composer’s words: ‘whimsical, all wilfulness and witticisms’. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet employs his formidable technique and interpretative flair in the solo part. The Cunning Little Vixen, Janácek’s opera from 1923, was not universally well received at first.

A number of its orchestral interludes, however, were immediately popular and after Janácek’s death in 1928 Václav Talich, a leading Czech conductor, extracted an orchestral suite, re-orchestrated by two young colleagues. Recently Sir Charles Mackerras restored Janácek’s striking original orchestration, the version recorded here.


Tracks:

Janáček: Sinfonietta 23:28
I. Allegretto 2:08
II. Andante 6:13
III. Moderato 5:20
IV. Allegretto 3:04
V. Andante con moto 6:43

Janáček: Capriccio for piano (left hand) & chamber ensemble, JW VII / 12 'Vzdor' 20:16
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), Ingela Oien (flute), Gary Peterson (trumpet), Jon Behncke (trumpet), Christopher Dudley (trombone), Oyvind Hage (trombone), Kjell Erik Husom (bass trombone), Hans Andreas Kjolberg (euphonium)
I. Allegro 5:02
II. Adagio 5:15
III. Allegretto 3:39
IV. Andante 6:20

Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen Suite, JW I / 9 (arr. C. Mackerras for orchestra) 20:17
I. The forest: Andante - Tempo I - Allegro - Tempo di Walzer 9:51
II. The Vixen at the Gamekeeper's farmyard - The Vixen dreams - The Vixen escapes 10:26

Personnel:

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner

Edward Gardner, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra - Janacek: Orchestral Works, Vol.1 (2014) [SACD]


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  • hollinsuk
  •  wrote in 20:49
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Many thanks for sharing - BUT no 320 kbps!

Will have to down convert.

Cheers.
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  • laif900
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Hollinsuk ..is this some kind of fetish for you, to spam the comments with your MP3-320Kbps remarks?

..just wondering and have a nice weekend, you strange guy :)