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Janáček: The Diary of One Who Disappeared

and works by Dvořák and Smetana

Vilém Přibyl (tenor), Libuše Márová, Pavel Kühn, Milan Máša, Josef Páleníček

Janáček: The Diary of One Who Disappeared
The small women’s group which delivers three songs has a choric function in the other sense, and the village boy/gypsy girl plot is in no way hackneyed or trite. Přibyl in particular inhabits...

Choir & Organ, December 2019

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Janáček: The Diary of One Who Disappeared

and works by Dvořák and Smetana

Vilém Přibyl (tenor), Libuše Márová, Pavel Kühn, Milan Máša, Josef Páleníček

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The small women’s group which delivers three songs has a choric function in the other sense, and the village boy/gypsy girl plot is in no way hackneyed or trite. Přibyl in particular inhabits...

Choir & Organ, December 2019

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The reissue of the recordings made in 1978 and 1988 pays tribute to the unforgettable Czech tenor Vilém Přibyl’s superb performance of three extraordinary Czech song cycles. The artist dazzled several generations of music-lovers in Bedřich Smetana’s and Leoš Janáček’s operas.

His professional career was mainly connected with Brno, where he lived and worked for three decades. Moreover, Přibyl performed as a guest at the National Theatre in Prague, and he also impressed audiences in Edinburgh, London (Royal Opera House), as well as in France, Italy and the USA. The three song cycles are deemed to be the best works in the genre created by Smetana, Dvořák and Janáček.

They are fundamentally different in terms of inspiration. While in his short cycle Evening Songs Smetana sumps up his lifelong endeavours and experiences, Dvořák’s Biblical Songs represent the composer’s intimate prayer and thanksgiving.

In The Diary of One Who Disappeared, Janáček’ depicts the story of a village boy who madly falls in love with a beautiful gypsy girl.

The benchmark historical albums are as enchanting today as they were decades ago.

Contents and tracklist

Smetana: Evening Songs
Work length7:50
  • Vilém Přibyl (vocalist), Milan Máša (soloist)
No. 1, Who’s Master of the Golden Strings
Track length1:39
No. 2, Don’t Throw Against the Prophets Stones
Track length1:43
No. 3, I Fancied Once
Track length1:39
No. 4, Hey, What a Joyful Pleasure
Track length0:53
No. 5, Out of My Songs I Build for Thee
Track length1:56
Dvořák: Biblical Songs (10), Op. 99
Work length28:52
  • Vilém Přibyl (vocalist), Milan Máša (soloist)
No. 1, Darkness and Thunderclouds Are Round About Him. Andantino
Track length2:33
No. 2, Lord My Shield, My Refuge and Hope Art Thou. Andante
Track length2:01
No. 3, Hear, Oh Hear My Prayer, Lord My God. Andante
Track length3:31
No. 4, Oh, My Shepherd Is the Lord. Andante
Track length2:45
No. 5, Songs of Gladness Will I Sing Thee. Risoluto maestoso
Track length3:15
No. 6, Hear, Oh Lord, My Bitter Cry. Andante
Track length3:27
No. 7, By the Shore of the River Babylon. Andante
Track length3:15
No. 8, Oh, Lord, Have Mercy and Turn Thou Thy Face to Me. Andante
Track length3:23
No. 9, My Eyes Will I to the Hills Lift Up. Andante con moto
Track length2:18
No. 10, Oh, Sing unto the Lord a Joyful Song. Allegro moderato
Track length2:24
Janáček: The Diary of One Who Disappeared
Work length32:42
No. 1, I Have Seen a Young Gipsy Girl. Andante
Track length1:09
No. 2, This Dark-Eyed Young Gipsy. Con moto
Track length1:05
No. 3, Along the Lakeside the Air Is Soft with Glow-Worms. Andante
Track length1:37
No. 4, Twittering in Their Nests. Andante
Track length0:48
No. 5, Ploughing Now Is Painful. Adagio
Track length0:45
No. 6, Whoa, There, You Grey Oxen. Allegro
Track length1:42
No. 7, Now Has a Peg Fallen. Con moto
Track length0:48
No. 8, Do Not Gaze, Oxen. Andante
Track length1:04
No. 9, Welcome, Janíček, Welcome to the Forest!
Track length2:38
No. 10, God Above U, Lord Immortal. Un poco piu mosso
Track length4:17
No. 11, Scent of Millet Blooming. Con moto
Track length2:44
No. 12, Darkness Neath the Trees, Coolness by the Spring
Track length0:49
No. 13, Piano Solo. Andante
Track length2:41
No. 14, The Sun Is Rising! Adagio
Track length0:58
No. 15, My Grey Oxen. Allegro
Track length0:54
No. 16, What I Have Done, Alas! Adagio
Track length1:02
No. 17, When Fate Has Been Decreed. Recitativo
Track length1:39
No. 18, One Thought Have I the Whole Day
Track length1:10
No. 19, Magpie Flying Over. Andante
Track length1:13
No. 20, I’ve a Fair Lassie. Con moto
Track length0:47
No. 21, Father, Oh, Father Dear. Meno mosso
Track length1:04
No. 22, I Must Leave This Spot Where. Andante
Track length1:48

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Awards and reviews

December 2019

The small women’s group which delivers three songs has a choric function in the other sense, and the village boy/gypsy girl plot is in no way hackneyed or trite. Přibyl in particular inhabits this music rather than merely singing it. A wonderful recording.

March/April 2020

Vilém Přibyl and Libuše Márová’s singing of The Diary of One Who Disappeared make this a disc to treasure.

November 2019

Přibyl's voice is superbly secure and characterful – and often very beautiful in its distinctive colour. The interpretation has a naturalness and dignity that’s different from the more expressionistic approach of recent British tenors, but is no less effective. Márová is a characterful mezzo soloist and Josef Pálení∂ek’s pianoplaying is vivid and poetic...No Janáček: fan will want to be without this in their collection.
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