Janáček: Sinfonietta & Taras Bulba: Recorded at the Rudolfinum, Prague, June 22-24 and 29, and September 30, 2012.

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A superb programme...The substantially gifted Tomáš Netopil has the full measure of all four works...You hear everything and yet not a single note obtrudes. An absolute winner. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2013 More…

Release Date: 22nd Apr 2013
Catalogue No: SU41312
Label: Supraphon
Length: 68 minutes

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August 2013

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Janáček: Symfonietta, JW VI / 18

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Tomáš Netopil

I. Allegretto

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II. Andante

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III. Moderato

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IV. Allegretto

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V. Andante con moto - Allegretto

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Janáček: The Fiddler's Child, JW VI / 14

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Tomáš Netopil

Janáček: The Ballad of Blaník, JW VI / 16

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Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Tomáš Netopil

Janáček: Taras Bulba

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Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
Tomáš Netopil

I. The Death of Andrei

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II. The Death of Ostap

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III. The Prophecy and Death of Taras Bulba

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The first new Czech recording of Janacek’s Sinfonietta and symphonic poems in many years.

Janácek did not write a great quantity of symphonic works. Besides the Lachian Dances and an outline of the symphony Danube, they merely number the four compositions on this CD: three symphonic poems and the celebrated Sinfonietta. The symphonic poems, created within eight years between 1913 and 1920, reflect the turbulent political events and social tensions of the time, as well as Janácek’s keen interest in Czech and Russian literature. The Ballad of Blaník is based on a poem by Jaroslav Vrchlický, while The Fiddler’s Child was written to verses by Svatopluk Èech.

When reading Gogol’s novella Taras Bulba, Janacek was impressed by its hero, a Cossack chieftain, and referred to the author as the “prophet of the Slavs”. Sinfonietta, indisputably the most significant Janacek orchestral piece, was premiered in June 1926 in Prague by Václav Talich with the Czech Philharmonic. Tomáš Netopil, the winner of the Sir Georg Solti International Conducting Competition and a regular guest of leading orchestras (Berliner Philharmoniker, London Philharmonic, etc.) and prestigious opera stages worldwide, has materialised his singular vision of Janacek’s music in the recording made with the splendid Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra.

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August 2013

A superb programme...The substantially gifted Tomáš Netopil has the full measure of all four works...You hear everything and yet not a single note obtrudes. An absolute winner.

23rd May 2013

[in The Ballad of Blaník & the Fiddler's Child] Netopil shows that he is a subtle and meticulous Janáček interpreter, while the Prague players prove they can produce playing of real delicacy and tonal refinement.

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