Janáček: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2

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Leader Milina Mandozzi does well to show the way through this mysterious, powerful work [The Fiddler's Child]...These must be difficult works to prepare and indeed to record; both playing and... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2015 More…

Release Date: 5th May 2015
Catalogue No: CHSA5156
Label: Chandos
Series: Janacek: Orchestral Works
Length: 77 minutes

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Janáček: Zarlivost (Jealousy), JW VI / 10

Work length5:36

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Bergen filharmoniske orkester
Edward Gardner
Recorded: 24-27 November 2014
Recording Venue: Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway

Excerpt, Janáček: Violin Concerto 'Pilgrimage of the Soul'

Work length12:11

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James Ehnes (violin)
Bergen filharmoniske orkester
Edward Gardner
Recorded: 24-27 November 2014
Recording Venue: Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway

Janáček: The Ballad of Blaník

Work length7:50

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Bergen filharmoniske orkester
Edward Gardner
Recorded: 24-27 November 2014
Recording Venue: Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway

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

Work length12:54

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Melina Mandozzi (violin)
Bergen filharmoniske orkester
Edward Gardner
Recorded: 24-27 November 2014
Recording Venue: Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway

Con moto - Vivo - Adagio - Allegro - Tempo Vivo - Tempo I - Meno mosso - Allegro

Track length4:57

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Larghetto - Poco mosso - Tempo I - Con moto - Con moto - Meno mosso - Con moto

Track length5:48

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Allegro - Maestoso

Track length2:09

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Janáček: The Danube, JW IX / 7 (Completed by M. Stedron & L. Faltus)

Work length16:19

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Susanna Andersson (soprano)
Bergen filharmoniske orkester
Edward Gardner
Recorded: 10-11 March, 24-27 November 2014
Recording Venue: Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway

I. Andante - Un poco piu mosso - Con moto

Track length3:37

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II. Un poco piu mosso - Meno mosso - Presto - Adagio

Track length4:59

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III. Allegro - Meno - Piu mosso

Track length3:12

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IV. [Allegretto] - [Waltz] - Piu mosso

Track length4:31

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Janáček: Taras Bulba

Work length22:49

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Bergen filharmoniske orkester
Edward Gardner
Recorded: 24-27 November 2014
Recording Venue: Grieghallen, Bergen, Norway

I. Smrt Andrijova (Death of Andrij)

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II. Smrt Ostapova (The Death of Ostap)

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III. Proroctvi a smrt Tarase Bulby (The Prophecy and Death of Taras Bulba)

Track length9:07

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Recording of the Week, James Ehnes performs works for violin and viola by Franck, Strauss, and Berlioz

27th April 2015

James listens to two new discs featuring James Ehnes on the violin and viola.

This is the second volume in our series devoted to the orchestral works of Janáček, with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Edward Gardner.

The repertoire on this disc includes some of the greatest programmatic pieces by the composer. Unsurprisingly, the first piece featured here is Jealousy – his first declared piece of programme music, originally written to preface the opera Jenůfa but never included in any production of it during his lifetime. Both The Ballad of Blaník and The Fiddler’s Child (also known as a ‘ballad for orchestra’) are characterised by the use of musicals symbols, reflecting the Czech poems on which the pieces are based and also some of the composer’s personal reflections and responses.

The one-movement Violin Concerto The Wandering of a Little Soul is a more mysterious piece, with uncertainties surrounding the title, the date of creation, and the goals of its composition. Like the unfinished Danube symphony, the version recorded here has been reconstructed by Miloš Štědroň and Leoš Faltus from Janáček’s sketches.

An interpretation of the famous tale by Gogol, Taras Bulba was completed in 1915 and was Janáček’s most substantial orchestral work to date. It is inflected with folk dances, battle and horse-riding music, suffering and love, and brought to a grandiloquent apotheosis, in orchestration of almost cinematic vividness.

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July 2015

Leader Milina Mandozzi does well to show the way through this mysterious, powerful work [The Fiddler's Child]...These must be difficult works to prepare and indeed to record; both playing and recording are vividly managed.

10th May 2015

James Ehnes is the plush-toned soloist, but it is the intense and gritty playing of the Bergeners, and Gardner’s evident empathy with Janacek, that make this music so compelling and dramatic.

23rd April 2015

Gardner’s survey with the Bergen Phil taps into his boundless, brazen invention; that uniquely Janáčekian blend of rustic and caustic...Ehnes is a steely, forthright soloist in the Violin Concerto, and the Bergen players offer clean, mercurial momentum.

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