Janacek: Choral Works

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Cappella Amsterdam produces a superb choral sound: firm in ensemble and suitably heroic in the higher tenor lines. It clearly identifies closely with this repertoire and captures the off-beat... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 9th Jan 2012
Catalogue No: HMC902097
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 71 minutes

Janáček: Six Moravian Choruses

Work length11:40

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Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss

I. The Slighted Heart

Track length1:14

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II. The Pledge of Love

Track length1:16

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III. Forsaken

Track length1:33

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IV. Parting without Sorrow

Track length1:12

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V. The Wild Rose

Track length3:06

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VI. Trust

Track length3:19

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Janáček: The Wild Duck (Kačena divoká)

Work length3:38

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Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss

Janáček: The Wolf's Trail (Vlčí stopa)

Work length7:32

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Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss, Philip Mayers

Janáček: Elegie na smrt dcery Olgy (Elegy on the death of my daughter Olga) for four-part choir, tenor soloist and piano

Work length7:35

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Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss, Philip Mayers

Janáček: Říkadla

Work length15:44

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Dirk Luijmes, Cappella Amsterdam, Thomas Walker, Daniel Reuss, Philip Mayers, Radio Blazers Ensemble

I. Introduction

Track length0:34

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II. The beetroot got married

Track length1:29

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III. There's nothing better than springtime

Track length1:11

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IV. The mole creeps

Track length1:14

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V. Karel rode off to hell

Track length0:37

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VI. Ragged trousers

Track length0:29

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VII. Franta the knacker's son

Track length0:58

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VIII. Our dog, our dog

Track length0:34

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IX. I preach, I preach a sermon

Track length1:01

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X. The old woman was casting spells

Track length0:39

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XI. Ho, ho, off go the cows

Track length1:08

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XII. My tiny little wife

Track length0:37

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XIII. Granny's crawled into the elder bush

Track length0:21

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XIV. The white goat's picking up the pears

Track length0:39

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XV. Grumpy German broke the pots

Track length0:44

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XVI. Nanny goat's lying in the hay

Track length0:46

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XVII. Vašek, the rascal, the drummer boy

Track length0:46

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XVIII. Frantík, Frantík

Track length0:22

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XIX. The bear sat on a log

Track length1:35

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Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, Series I: I. Our evenings

Work length4:11

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Dirk Luijmes

Janáček: Varyto, JW 8 / 3

Work length4:55

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Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss

Janáček: Otče náš, JW 4 / 29

Work length16:08

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Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss, Ernestine Stoop

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Janácek’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 Dvorák, 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.

The professional chamber choir Cappella Amsterdam was founded in 1970. Over the years, under the direction of Daniel Reuss, it has built up a repertoire ranging from early music to contemporary works with a special focus on promoting Dutch music of today.

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May 2012

Cappella Amsterdam produces a superb choral sound: firm in ensemble and suitably heroic in the higher tenor lines. It clearly identifies closely with this repertoire and captures the off-beat humour of the 1926 version of Nursery Rhymes...this is an attractive recording, and beautifully performed.

May 2012

Daniel Reuss has a good feeling for the cut and colour of Janacek's phrases and the chorus are admirable in making all his originalities fall naturally into place

22nd January 2012

This selection is mostly folk-inspired, apparently sunny but hinting at the psychological darkness of the composer's better known operas...A batch of Nursery Rhymes offer light relief and the disc ends with a serene setting of the "Our Father", sung with well-drilled, idiomatic precision by the long-established Cappella Amsterdam.

13th January 2012

Janácek’s choral music is not widely performed on the international stage, but there is much to enjoy in this programme...a much more personal voice comes through in such pieces as The Wolf’s Trail and a sequence of nursery rhymes, accompanied by instrumental ensemble and performed here with character and distinction.

14th January 2012

From the poignant to patriotic, a super introduction to Janacek and a vital context to enrich appreciation of his operas...A seven-minute mini-opera, The Wolf’s Trail, tells a cautionary tale about sexual jealousy written (Military Wives-style) for a women’s chorus while their husbands were away at the First World War.

Janacek: Choral Works

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