Janáček: Choral Works

From the al fresco freshness of the Moravian Choruses to a lambent male-voice Ave Maria, Daniel Reuss and his Cappella Amsterdam offer incisive, engagingly communicated insights. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 6th Mar 2020
Catalogue No: HMM932097
Label: Harmonia Mundi

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Janáček: Moravian Choruses (6), after Dvorak

Cappella Amsterdam
Daniel Reuss

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Cappella Amsterdam
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Cappella Amsterdam
Daniel Reuss

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Cappella Amsterdam
Daniel Reuss

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Cappella Amsterdam
Daniel Reuss

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Cappella Amsterdam
Daniel Reuss

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Cappella Amsterdam
Daniel Reuss

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Cappella Amsterdam
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Janacek’s choral works draw on an extremely rich repertory of folksongs and folk tales. The composer seized on idioms from Bohemian and Moravian traditions, with their characteristic folk dances and rustic nursery rhymes and on the recently published Moravian Duets of his compatriot Antonín Dvořák, to convey a mixture of emotions, forever shifting between cheerfulness and melancholy, like his subdued harmonies.

Here we witness the birth of a musical language which, though deliberately rooted in central Europe, has projected for nearly a century the aura of a universal sentiment.

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April 2020

From the al fresco freshness of the Moravian Choruses to a lambent male-voice Ave Maria, Daniel Reuss and his Cappella Amsterdam offer incisive, engagingly communicated insights.

April 2020

With their unusually constituted ensemble accompaniment, the Nursery Rhymes are quite brilliantly played and sung on this CD, with Daniel Reuss and his forces capturing the sequence’s originality. Perhaps most touching of all in what is a fine programme is their rendition of Elegy on the Death of My Daughter Olga (1903), a calm meditation from Janáček on the nature of death.

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