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Janáček - Rikadla (Nonsense Nursery Rhymes)
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Janáček: The Diary of One Who Disappeared
Recommended& other works
Nicky Spence (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Václava Housková (mezzo), VOICE, Victoria Samek (clarinet)
This excellently recorded performance is strikingly direct. The ebb and flow of the drama is brilliantly captured. Nicky Spence’s tenor is flexible across a huge range…Drake’s accompaniment... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2019
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Record Review, 6th July 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2019, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Winner - Vocal
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Soirée
RecommendedMagdalena Kožená (mezzo), Sir Simon Rattle (piano), Rahel Rilling (violin), Wolfram Brandl (violin), Yulia Deyneka (viola), David Adorjan (cello), Andrew Marriner (clarinet)
There is some lovely singing from Kožená, whose fawn-tinted mezzo retains its attractive quality from her earliest discs…She sings the two Brahms collections well, especially the Ophelia Songs,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th September 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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Special offer. Janáček: From the House of the Dead
RecommendedDalibor Jedlicka (Goryantchikov), Jiri Zahradnicek (Luka Morosoff), Jaroslava Janská (Alyeya), Václav Zitek (Shishkov), Antonin Svorc (Old Prisoner), Ivo Zidek (Skuratov)
Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Charles Mackerras
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Gramophone Awards, 1980, Recording of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 24th Awards (1981), Best Opera Recording
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Special offer. Janáček: From the House of the Dead
RecommendedJiri Zahradnicek, Ivo Zidek, Dalibor Jedlicka
Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Mackerras
From the House of the Dead (the 1980 Gramophone Record of the Year) was here recorded for the first time in its proper, original version; and this revealed it as even more of a masterpiece... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1980, Record of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 24th Awards (1981), Best Opera Recording
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Janacek: Choral Music
Amanda Pitt (soprano), James MacDougall & Daniel Norman (tenors)
New London Chamber Choir, The Critical Band, James Wood
These performances strike me as nearly ideal … this enchanting Hyperion disc —
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Special offer. Janácek: Chamber & Orchestral Works
RecommendedA 5 CD box to mark the 150th anniversary of Janácek's birth
Paul Crossley (piano), Gabrieli String Quartet, Kenneth Sillito (violin) Paul Crossley (piano), Eva Urbanová (soprano), Marta Benackova (mezzo-soprano), Vladimir Bogachov (tenor), Richard Novák (bass), Thomas Trotter (organ)
London Sinfonietta and Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker,...
a very useful and inexpensive way of acquiring a lot of Janacek...Chailly's strong and refined reading of the Glagolitic Mass makes a splendid finale for this set, with fine detail brought out... —
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Building a Library, April 2005, Modern Choice
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Village Stories
Katia Skanavi (soloist, piano), Jana Hrochová (vocalist, mezzo-soprano (voice)), Jiří Brückler (vocalist, baritone (voice)), Kateřina Kněžíková (vocalist, soprano (voice)), Alexandra Stychkina (soloist, piano), Lukáš Hynek-Krämer (vocalist, bass (voice)), Boris Stěpanov (vocalist, tenor (voice)),...
Vasilek’s focus is to showcase the not inconsiderable virtuosity of the Prague Philharmonic Choir, with several soloists in all three works drawn from its ranks. —
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Janáček: Rikadla (Nonsense Nursery Rhymes)
Collegium Vocale Gent & Het Collectief, Reinbert De Leeuw
Reinbert de Leeuw and Collegium Vocale Gent are masters of tonal shading: whether attending to top or internal lines they achieve a near-on three-dimensional effect…superb playing and singing... —
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Janacek: Rikadla
Antonin Tucapsky, Jan Kuhn, Alfred Holecek (piano)
The Moravian Teachers' Choir, Czech Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra
The Choir's performance in these greatest of all Janacek's male voice choruses is unlikely to be excelled. The Nursery Rhymes are delightful —
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Janacek: Choral Works
Dirk Luijmes (harmonium), Philip Mayers (piano), Thomas Walker (tenor) & Ernestine Stoop (harp)
Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss
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... —
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