This page lists all recordings of Reminiscence, JW 8/32 (Vzpomínka), by Leos Janacek (1854-1928) on CD, SACD & download (MP3 & FLAC). Generally, more recent releases are listed first, but with priority given to those that are in stock. |
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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Janacek - Piano Works
“There is poetry aplenty, but he is not afraid of the music's dark heart.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2010 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Janacek - Glagolitic Mass, Sinfonietta, Piano Works & Songs
Janacek: | Sinfonietta Philharmonia Orchestra, Simon Rattle Glagolitic Mass Felicity Palmer, Ameral Gunson, John Mitchinson, Malcolm King & Jane Parker-Smith CBSO Chorus & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle Concertino, JW VII/11 Mikhail Rudy (piano) Soloists of the Opéra National de Paris, Sir Charles Mackerras The Diary of One Who Disappeared with Ian Bostridge, Thomas Adès, Ruby Philogene, Diane Atherton, Deryn Edwards & Susan Flannery Reminiscence, JW 8/32 Thomas Adès (piano) In memorium Thomas Adès (piano) Andante Thomas Adès (piano) Moderato Thomas Adès (piano) Der goldene Ring (1928) Thomas Adès (piano) Ich erwarte Dich (1928) Thomas Adès (piano) Christ the Lord is born Thomas Adès (piano) Violin Sonata Pierre Amoyal (violin) & Mikhail Rudy (piano) Capriccio for piano (left hand) & chamber ensemble, JW VII/12 'Vzdor' with Mikhail Rudy Soloists of the Opéra National de Paris, Sir Charles Mackerras |
“Full marks for breadth in a compilation balancing the familiar (an effortful Sinfonietta and wiry Glagolitic) with chamber music and Bostridge's Diary. Like the diarist, alas, the texts have disappeared too!” BBC Music Magazine, May 2009 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Slavka Pechocova plays Janacek
Janacek left only a few piano masterpieces, their language forming a sort of dreamlike counterpoint to his fantastic operatic repertoire. Slavka Pechocova’s playing reflects the rigour of her first teacher, Martin Hrsel, and the almost-Impressionistic expressiveness of her second, Professor Ivan Moravec, in a new, highly spirited, recording of Janacek’s Piano pieces which should be acclaimed as one of the most promising of the year so far. She made her Proms debut at the Proms last year with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Jirí Belohlávek in Martinu’s Concerto for 2 Pianos. “[Pechocova] is another Czech artist with a high intelligence and sensitivity to all [Janacek's] subtleties...she responds beautifully to the undertow of sadness that lies in this work [the Sonata] but also in much of the other music.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Janacek: Works For Piano Solo
Janacek made a very important comment about the notes on a printed page being steeped in life and blood – 'otherwise,' he said, 'they are like playthings: useless'. If only more musicians took heed of that comment in general. And if only more pianists demonstrated Janacek's wish in their performances of his music. The record catalogues are riddled with bland performances, and thankfully, Ewa Kupiec is an exception to this unfortunate rule. The sheer physical awkwardness of Janacek's writing holds no fear for her and her mastery and understanding of the Czech and Slavic musical idioms are everywhere in evidence. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Janacek - Piano Music
“It says much for Charles Owen and his understanding of this composer that a young British pianist should present this music with such a distinctive voice. As is evident from the first of the two movements of the Sonata, he's even more strikingly successful than Rudolf Firkušný (reviewed below), doyen of Czech pianists, at bringing out the quirky side of Janácek's writing.
So the jagged little flurries of notes that bite away in contrast to the poetic lyricism of the opening are presented in sharper focus than with either Firkušný or Mikhail Rudy, an effect which directly echoes Janácek's orchestral writing.
Here and throughout the disc Owen is helped by the clarity of the recording.
The qualities which distinguish Owen's performance of the sonata recur in the other works.
Where Firkušný is regularly faster in a freely expressive style, and Rudy (on EMI) markedly slower, with rubato not always so idiomatic, Owen's middle way offers sharper focus and more refined dynamics. So his performances of the two series of miniatures which make up Onan Overgrown Path reflect the composer's folk influences in their lyrical freshness, both in the songful pieces and the dances. In the four move- ments of In the Mists, Owen matches Firkušný in spontaneity; indeed, he gives an almost improvisatory feel to the suite. The tiny Reminiscence, a product from the year Janácek died, makes a moving supplement.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Leos Janácek - Chamber Music for Violin, Cello and Piano
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| |  | Janacek - Piano Works
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Karoly Ambrus (horn), Csaba Babacsi (viola), Geza Banhegyi (clarinet), Istvan Hartenstein (bassoon), Thomas Hlawatsch (piano), Bela Nagy (violin), Vilmos Olah (violin) “Decent recorded sound.” Classic CD | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Janacek Complete Piano Music
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| |  | Leos Janacek: A Recollection
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