Janáček: Katya Kabanova

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The LSO are on tremendous form throughout, and what follows is an unflinching journey into both beauty and darkness, as sensuousness repeatedly collides with incipient violence. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2024 More…

Release Date: 23rd Feb 2024
Catalogue No: LSO0889
Label: LSO Live
Length: 99 minutes

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23rd February 2024
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Janáček: Katya Kabanova, JW I / 8, Act I Scene 1

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Sir Simon Rattle, London Symphony Orchestra, Ladislav Elgr, Claire Barnett-Jones, Simon O'Neill, Katarina Dalayman, Pavlo Hunka, Andrew Staples, Amanda Majeski, Magdalena Kozená

Introduction

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"Zázrak!"

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"Přišel jsi sem lelky chytat?"

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"Je baryňa doma?"

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"Co pak je?"

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"A potom běž domů"

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Intermezzo I

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Janáček: Katya Kabanova, JW I / 8, Act I Scene 2

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Sir Simon Rattle, London Symphony Orchestra, Amanda Majeski, Magdalena Kozená, Katarina Dalayman, Claire Barnett-Jones, Andrew Staples

"Víš co mi napadlo?"

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"Zdráva..."

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"Ale nač tobě to vykládám?"

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"Což pak už mne nemáš rád?"

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"Abych ani otce"

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Janáček: Katya Kabanova, JW I / 8, Act II Scene 1

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Sir Simon Rattle, London Symphony Orchestra, Katarina Dalayman, Magdalena Kozená, Pavlo Hunka, Amanda Majeski

"Vida, chvástala jsi se"

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"Půjdu též se projít"

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"Nic zvláštního, jenom jsem trochu nachmelen"

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Janáček: Katya Kabanova, JW I / 8, Act II Scene 2

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Sir Simon Rattle, London Symphony Orchestra, Ladislav Elgr, Magdalena Kozená, Simon O'Neill, Amanda Majeski

Introduction

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"Nikoho tu není!"

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"Za vodou, za vodičkou"

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"Jste to vy, Katěrino Petrovno?"

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"Nuže, shodli jste se?"

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"Choď si, dívka, do času"

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Janáček: Katya Kabanova, JW I / 8, Act III Scene 1

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Sir Simon Rattle, London Symphony Orchestra, Lukáš Zeman, Pavlo Hunka, Magdalena Kozená, Ladislav Elgr, Simon O'Neill, Amanda Majeski, Katarina Dalayman, Andrew Staples, London Symphony Chorus

Introduction - "Krápe!"

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"Celého mne to pokropilo"

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"Pssst! Pssst! Zdá se, že je to on!"

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"Tu jdou! Maminka jde s nimi!"

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Janáček: Katya Kabanova, JW I / 8, Act III Scene 2

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Sir Simon Rattle, London Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Staples, Lukáš Zeman, Simon O'Neill, Claire Barnett-Jones, Pavlo Hunka, Magdalena Kozená, Ladislav Elgr, Amanda Majeski, Katarina Dalayman, London Symphony Chorus

"Ach Glašo!"

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"Vidět se s ním"

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"Proč se tak chovají?"

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"Ale smrt nepřichází"

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"Svedl nás Bůh!"

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"Ale ne!"

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"Ptáčci přiletí na mohylu"

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Recording of the Week, Janáček's Katya Kabanova from Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra

23rd February 2024

Amanda Majeski is riveting as the doomed heroine grasping for happiness in the face of a loveless marriage (and a monstrous mother-in-law) in provincial Russia, with Rattle expertly balancing the score's elemental power and claustrophobic intensity.

The second release in LSO Live’s cycle of Janáček opera recordings, Katya Kabanova tells a story of love, entrapment and, ultimately, tragedy. The album’s cast includes the superb tenor Simon O’Neill and, appearing in one of her signature roles as seen at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Amanda Majeski as Katya.

“Majeski gives such heartfelt commitment to the role of Katya that one worries how she can come back down from the emotional peaks and precipices that she scales.” – Opera Today

Katya is young, sensitive, and desperate for love. But trapped in a remote country village with a bored husband and his snobbish family, she has no way out, until a summer thunderstorm changes everything. Uncompromisingly honest, and pulsing with intensely human emotion, the story of Katya Kabanova is written in music that cuts straight to the chase. The LSO’s concert stagings of classic operas always make headlines: and this one was no different. Enjoy this recording, captured live at the Barbican in January 2023 under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle.

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March 2024

The LSO are on tremendous form throughout, and what follows is an unflinching journey into both beauty and darkness, as sensuousness repeatedly collides with incipient violence.

23rd February 2024

So much of this unsettling, comfortless drama is carried by the orchestra, and Rattle does a masterful job of conveying both the claustrophobia of the environment and the elemental forces of nature which combine to destroy Katya’s sanity. Majeski made for a riveting Katya at Covent Garden back in 2019, and if anything she’s even more compelling here: the voice has taken on extra weight and colour in the intervening four years, and she deploys it with the utmost emotional intelligence throughout.

3rd March 2024

Rattle is absolutely on fire, drawing from his singers and players musicianship of incredible subtlety and force..Majeski’s Katya is one of the great interpretations of the role, and Katarina Dalayman is a terrifying, unyielding Kabanicha. There is fine support, too, with Magdalena Kozena a sweet-voiced Varvara and Ladislav Elgr her pitch-perfect Kudrjas. A triumph.

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